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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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Mysterious German War Disease

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

Further details of a mysterious German war discase are given in the "British Medical Journal." The ailment, which is called "war cedema," has…

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The War London

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

The Petrograd correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Agency states that the Russian Constituent Assembly might be considered dead,…

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The War The Latest

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

Such of the cable news on this page so headed appeared in the "Times," and is cabled to Australia by special permission. It…

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Labor and the War. Statements of War Aims. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

At the Labor meeting at Nottingham Mr. Arthur Henderson moved a resolution welcoming Mr. Lloyd George's and President Wilson's war sims and…

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Latest War News London

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

A German official message states that the Goeben is only lightly grounded. A Turkish communique states that…

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War Story. Signaller Skeyhill's Visit

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 4

SIGNALLER Tom Skeyhill, the great war lecturer, will visit us on Wednesday next, and deliver his interesting lecture in Tracey's hall. As…

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War Precautions Regulations. Junee Interrupter Fined

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

The adjourned case against William Webb, a wheat jumper, charged under the War Precautions Regulations with disturbing a meeting on the…

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The War. Latest News. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 4

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

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New War Loan. Question of Interest and Taxation

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 4

It is the intention of the Federal Treasurer to issue another Commonwealth war loan within the next few weeks. The prospectus is now in course…

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Latest Cables. War. Noon News. Austria. LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

"The Times" Vossiche revelations make it clear that the strikes ended on 21st. January. The strikers compelled the…

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To-day’s War News (Reater’s.) Strike Ends

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 3

The “Times’s” Vossiche revelations make it clear the strickes ended on 21st January. The strikers compelled the Austrian and Hu[?] Governments…

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Trip in a War Aeroplane. Above the Enemy Lines

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 3

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

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With the Australians on Callipoli. Signaller Skeyhill's Thrilling War Story

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

Signaller Tom Skeyhill whose visit to this town on Tuesday next, January 28, in O'Brien's Hall, is creating such great interest has had a remarkable career,…

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Canada and the War. Ministerial Speeches. Dominions Assistance. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

Speaking at a Canadian Club luncheon to Sir Edward Kemp, Oversea Minister for Canada, Lord Derby said that Canada, by voting for conscription, had…

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War on the Sea. Finishing the Gobben. Continued Aircraft Attacks. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

The Admiralty reports: Our aircraft made a further day and night attack on the Goeben and secured two hits with heavy bombs and also bombed a tug…

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Items of News. Settlement of Soldiers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

It is reported that arrangements have been made for the settling of returned soldiers on the Ten Mile Estate at Holbrook, under the New South Wales…

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Work and Wages. Returned Soldiers. Complaint of Unemployment. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 3

A meeting of returned soldiers in Melbourne Trades Hall passed a resolution expressing disgust with the Commonwealth and State…

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Returned Soldiers and Wool Classing

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

The question of providing instruction in wool-classing for a returned soldier has been the subject of correspondence between Mr. C. Hardy, of Wagga, and…

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Soldier's Suicide. Bad Business Investment. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 4

At an inquest concerning the death of Lieut. Norman M'Kenzie, a returned soldier, who shot himself at an hotel in Sydney, a letter written by deceased…

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Proverbs of Australian Soldiers

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

Be it ever so humble, there's no face like your own. It's a dumb dog that can't' tell its own tale—to the M.O…

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