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The wars & local soldiers, 1917

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War to the Last Ounce

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 3

German newspapers contend that the Allies' Note is an anworthy rejoinder. Germany should carry on the war to the last ounce and let Hindenburg's…

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War May End in October. Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 3

Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, who has arrived in New York, is of opinion that there will be no cessation of hostilities before October, if then…

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Secretary for the Colonies. to Atten) War Council

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 3

It is announced that. Mr. Long (Secretary of State for the Colonies) will attend the War Council when the Premiers arrive…

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Knock-out War. Germany's Original Designs. Collapse of Programme

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

Professor Mcincke the well-known historian of Freiburg University, in a remarkable New Year article in the "Frankfurter Zeitung," says:-…

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Commonwealth War Loan Circular to Employers Commonwealth [?] 12 16

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 3

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Local Soldiers And Their Dependants Fund

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

A full meeting of the members of the trust of the Tumut District Fund in aid of local soldiers and their dependants took place at Mr. Howitt's on…

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Distinction for Wagga Soldier

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

In the New Year List of Honors conferred upon soldiers who have won distinction at the war, appears the name of Lieutenant Ernest Ferguson,…

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Returned Soldiers. Reports of Starvation Denied. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 3

Mr.Govers, secretary of the State War Council, reports that there is no truth in the allegations that many returned soldiers and their families have been…

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Soldiers' Cables New Code Manual. Sidney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

In consequence of the further re-organisation of the A.I. Forces, the manual of telegraphic indicators has been revised and a third edition…

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A Returned Wounded Tumut Soldier

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 3

Pte. Geo. H. Buckley, of Tumut, who was wounded in the fighting in France, returned home yesterday by train. No office-bearer of the…

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The War

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

If Germany had any hope that her preposterous peace proposals would cause dissension among her opponents, it was dashed to the ground by the…

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Our Wounded Boys. Sketch Bt Feed. J. Empson

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 6

I was sitting in a little old French town to-night where in years past I enjoyed the life, the brightness, the Casino, the plage, the noisy market, the…

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War Service Committee

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 6

The usual fortnightLY meeting of the above was held on Friday evening last there being present Messrs. E. C. H. Matthews…

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Another War Loan

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 6

The prospectus of a further issue of the Commonwealth War Loan has now been announced, and the particulars appear in our…

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The War. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

A Portuguese army is arriving in France. About 10,000 German prisoners are available to work agricultural…

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The War Washington

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

A message from Berlin states that German newspapers eclare that the Allies' Note is unworthy of a rejoinder, and…

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North Coast Tragedy. Mother, Dead and Son Wounded. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

Mrs. C. Allts of Horeshoe Creek, Kyogle, was found dead in a paddock this morning with her throat cut so that the head was almost severed. A…

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BAYONET v. Babe Hands. Cowardly Hun Beaten by a Wounded Man

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

A company sergeant major describes how he battled with a German armed with rifle and bayonet who attacked hin as he lay wounded. Before it really struck me what the cow…

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Latest War News London

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

A French communique records lively artillery duels around Somme, Verdun and Mort Homme…

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Passing Notes. labour and the War

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

The utterances of British Labor leaders and also of the Labor organisations make recent deliverances by the Australian P.L.L., and…

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