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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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Men for the Army. Week's Enlistments. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1918 · page 4

Last week 533 men enlisted in the A.I.F. throughout the CommonWealth…

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War Superstitions

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 6

Professor Archenhold, of[?] Astronomical Society, Berl[?]ganized an interesting exhib[?] is being patronised by all[?]…

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Potatoes and War

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 6

During the war, says the Mark Lane express, we are getting evidence of the great value of the humble potato as a good crop for man and animals. It is…

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Allied War Conference. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 2

Reuter's Paris correspondent reports it is announced that the Allied premiers and War Ministers will probably meet in Paris shortly…

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Australian War Relics. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 2

After the Pozieres action Mr. Fisher (High Commissioner) applied to take for Australia war relics, which have now been secured and will shortly be…

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Interesting War Notes a Battleship's Life

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 6

We are continually reading in the newspapers that various battleships have been completed, launched, and for how long they have been…

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Labor and the War. Aims Outlined. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. Arthur Henderson circularised the Labor delegates at Nottingham setting forth the war aims upon which British labor, in his view, should insist if it is…

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Our Wires. Another War Loan Sydney, This Day

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 5

It is the intention of the Federal Treasurer to issue another War loan within the next few weeks…

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Trip in a War Aeroplane. Above the Enemy Lines

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 5

Life has scarcely anything more thrilling to offer than a trip in an Aeroplane above enemy's lines. The most blase mortal is whirled in an…

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War on the Sea. Submarinism. Buying Off America. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 2

Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent states that in the course of a lecture Count von Reventlow stated that the German Minister in a neutral State…

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Where War Is Unknown. Republics One Rarely Hears Anything Of

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 3

To many people the fact that there are many independent republics un-touched by the ravages of war with all its horrors will doubtlessly seem…

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Post-war Burdens. Co-operation of Labor and Capital. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 2

As the war lengthens leaders of industry are discussing the increasing seriousness of the national burdens and the need for a vast and immediate…

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Why I Deserted. the Most Amazing and Poignant Confession Ever Written by a Soldier

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 7

"As" I slunked—rather than walked down the street I fancied every eye as upon me, and the hand of every [?]as against me…

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Soldiers Insurance

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 5

The Public Trustee notifies that the policies authorised by Sir Samuel M'Caughy for the insurance of 500 soldiers, with…

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Tarcutta Soldiers' Settlement Blocks

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 2

The Gundagai "Times" states that a returned soldier called at the office of the paper on Saturday, after spending several months on one of the soldiers'…

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The War. What Labor Wants No Annexation—but Reparation Austrian Strikes A Sea Fight The Came Lizzard Fights Two Enemy Reuter Wires. Sydney, This Day

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 5

Mr. Arthur Henderson has circularised Lator delegates in Nottingham, setting forth the war aims whereon British Labor, in…

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War Chest

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 6

The usual fortnightly meeting of the War Chest working [?]…

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Colinroobie War Chest

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 6

The first monthly meeting of the Colinroobie War Chest took place on Wednesday of last week at the Colinroobie Hall, the…

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No Economic War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 7

"For three years or more it has been fashionable to talk of the economic war that it was freely predicted would follow the war of shot and shell. At the…

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A Little War Gazetter

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 4

JOFFRE--A democratic Sphinx that answered the riddle of a world. N. Romanoff--The man who carried his Siberia with him…

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