War in the Snow. New Methods Adopted
Mr. Phillip Gibbs writes—The snowfall and frost have compelled us to adapt our methods of wariare to the surrounding whiteness. The snow…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1917
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Miscellaneous War Items Dardanelles Commission. London
All the members of the Commission, except one, have signed the Dardanelles report. Mr. Fisher and Sir Thomas M'Kenzie signed it and also presented…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Personal Canvas for Recruits. Win the War Day
The usual weekly meeting of the War Service Committee held on Tuesday evening, notwithstanding it being a wet evening, was one of the largest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clergy and the War Loan Bishop Arranges Advances. London
The Bishop of Birmingham has arranged with his hankers to advance him £1,000, which he offers to lend to poorer clergy, in amounts of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Wilson Is Annoyed France Mobilising Spectre of Starvation. Sydney, This Day
It is reported that President Wilson is annoyed at the persistency of the report that he is seeking a way to avoid a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Loan. No Stronger Appeal Ever Made. Thousands Have Not Given Must They Be Forced. Melbourne
Mr. Poynton, referring to the War Loan, which closes to-morrow, says thousands have responded, but thousands more have not. No stronger…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Submarine Crisis. Cabinet Supports Dr. Wilson. America "Determined and Unfaltering." War Preparations Continued. Fighting in the Snow. Anglo-french Activity. America & Germany. Getting Ready. American War Preparations. Purchase of Army Supplines. Commandeering Public Utilities and Ships. New York
The Secretary for War has ordered the immediate purchase of army supplies to the limit of the department's available funds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers' Ribbons. This Article Tells All About Them
Nowadays it is almost impossible to pass along a crowded street with-out noticing on the breast of some soldier's tunic a strip or more of coloured ribbon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Poetry a Soldier's Hymn
Lord God, in midst of fire and steel We face the cruel foe, But ere we fight, to Thee we kneel, That Thou Thy mercy show…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers' Mail. Address Form Changed
The practice of stating in the address the brigade, division, or corps to which a unit is thought to be attached canses considerable inconvenience to the Army…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers and Liquor. London
The Provost Marshal attended the Licensing Bench at Wokingham and announced that the Aldershot command considered that at least 50 per cent. of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier's Widow. Debt Collector's Mean Threat. Sydney
The Victorian State War Council is highly indignant at the action of a debt collecting firm in sending a letter to a woman who lost her husband, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Harrassing Soldier's Widow. Debt Collector's Methods Brisbane
Recently a woman who lost her husband in the war had a typewritten letter sent her demanding payment owing of 10/6, otherwise a man with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anzac
Anzac is a word that bids fair to be reckoned among the immortals, for it is a name that will serve to hind the Dominions to the Motherland more than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British War Loan
There are many instances of city offices and banks, factories and worksheps in London and the provinces clubbing to assist the war loan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Citizens' War Chest
A meeting has been arranged to be held next Wednesday at the School of Arts for the purpose of forming a branch in this district. The objects…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Enemy War Debt
"If the war ends in Judo It will tost six thousand millions sterling. The highest income tax and succession duties on the most productive monopolies would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Imperial Parliament. Session Opened. Unpretentious Ceremony. Recognition of Dominations. Wounded Soldiers in Royal Gallery. the Essentials of Peace. London
At the opening of Parliament there was sunshine, although the weather was bitterly cold over night. Fifteen degrees of frost were recorded in St…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First, Win the War."
An extraordinary position has arisen in the Federal Parliament owing to the equivocal action of the Senate in relation to the war. That attitude,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The War London
A Berlin wireless message announces that negotiations are proceding regarding how far further concessions on Germany's part are…
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