War Service Committee
The meeting of the War Service Committee (tantamount to a public meeting) held on Monday evening in the Shine Hall. was largely attended…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1916
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War Is Hell!
Need you tell of blinding strife, Where Death scoffs at surging Life? Need you tell of men so brave. Laughing at the open grave?…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War Loan
"In subscribing the first loan so enthusiastically several times over a very high standard has been set, which can recently be maintained now that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Profiting by the War
"Great Britain's benevolent disposition has been exploited very. gravely to her own disadvantage. Not one of the neutral States of Europe which has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Demand for Aluminium
The demand for aluminium has increased enormously, through war requirements, and the price has risen by leaps and bounds, especially within the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Metals and the War
It is not without interest to note that, in the opinion of well-informed persons, a decisive military triumph for the Entente would mean a great rush of orders…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War The Latest
THURSDAY MORNING. 10 a.m. THE ROON CAPTURED A New York message states that a British cruiser captured the German…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. To-day's Cables
A Boston message says the investigations into an alleged conspiacy of German sympathisers to harrass the Ganadian citizens has proceeded so for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Wednesday Afternoon. SALONICA
A Paris journal menage says the German warned the Greeks to leave Salonica. Whether this is bluff or earnest is unknown. The Allies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Census Cards. Enforcing Regulations
VICTORIA military district has to find 16,000 men and 600 reinforcements a month for the force of 50.000. From January 1 until…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The War. Events of the Week
The past week has been remarkable for the fact that, locally at anyrate, the seriousness of the war position has become more perfectly realised than it has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Profits. Commission to Investigate. Melbourne
The Minister for Defence announced that the Interstate Commission would inquire into the subject of war profits immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. News Day by Day. Sydney
The Germans have issued a warning to Greek residents to leave Salonika. Col. Repiugton thinks this is bluff and a design to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Slim War Tricks of Past Days. Ingenuity in Battle
The finest compliment ever paid the slim expedients resorted to by our forefathers in war time is the adoption of quite a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Summary of War News. Saturday, February 5th. the Western Front
A London message says there are indications of German activity in Belgium. British trenches around Loos (northward of Arras) were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Submarine War Six Steamers Missing. City of Palermo Losses. London
Four British, one Spanish, and one Italian steamer have been posted as missing. It is officially reported that 31…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. News Day by Day. Sydney, Tuesday. " Another Scrap of Paper."
German; has agreed that reprisal must not be directed against any other than enemy subjects…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The War. The Eastern Front. German Leave Trenches. The Suez Canal. SYDNEY
Owing to the overflow of the [?] canal, the result of a sudden thaw, the Germans completely evacuated the whole of their second, line of trenches on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Latest News. German Cruiser Captured. Exit the Raiding "Roon." London
A message from New York says that a British Cruiser engaged the German cruiser Roon off the Bermudas, and after a fight lasting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Aerial Warfare. Seaplanes Over England. Ramsgate and Broadstairs Bombed. War Office Announcement. London
It is officially announced that two enemy seaplanes bombed the outskirts of Ramsgate and Broadstairs. Eleven bombs were dropped without…
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