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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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The War. Sydney, This Day

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 5

Italian official messages say that the artillery decimated the forces of the enemy on the southern slopes of Sassorosse and…

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Russia. War Prisoners. Russo-german Agreement. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 2

Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent states that according to a Berlin report the Russo-German delegates at Petrograd signed an agreement,…

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Romantic War Weddings. Sudden Ceremonies and Short Honeymoons

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 3

Many of the weddings which have taken place during the war, or somehow connected with it, might well afford themes for any novelist…

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War Savings. £4.000,0000 in Certificates. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 2

At a meeting of War Savings groups officers, it was stated that £4,000,000 had been invested in War Savings certificates in the Commonwealth…

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War in the Air. German Airmen Captured. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 2

The "Times" Amsterdam correspondent reports that a small squadron of Allies surrounded two German airmen near Ghent. The Germans evidently…

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Guido Baracchi. Fined £100 Under War Precautions Act. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 4

At the Police Court to-day. Guide Baracchi, a law student was fined £50 on each of two charges under the War Precautions Regulations and…

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United States and the War. Food for the Allies. Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 2

Mr. Hoover. Food Controller, threatened that if meatless and wheatless days were not better observed lie would have to issue food cards in…

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Soldiers' Smiles. Happy Though Disabled

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 7

If anyone were to tell you that he knew of a spot in the British Empire to-day where the flotsam and jetsam of the tides of war are "benched"…

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Soldiers' Welcome Home

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 3

Returned soldiers are invited to a welcome home at the Leeton School of Arts on Friday night next, February 22. They will be entertained with…

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Sick and Wounded Soldiers. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 3

Another batch of 346 wounded and sick soldiers reached Sydney this morning by train from Melbourne, to be followed during the day by still…

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War Talk

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 4

MY BAREER was a quiet chap, in palmy days of yore; but now, while cleaning up my map, he talks of death and gore. "It breaks my heart," he says, "to think that I can't…

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The War

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 15 February 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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Latest War News London

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 2

Mr Lloyd George, in the House of Commons, said he could not give the information asked for by Mr Asquith regarding the War…

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An Epic of the War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 2

Harry Launder, who is on a lecturing tour in the United States, has added a girm little tragedy to his fine collection of stories of the war. He told…

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Harry Lauder on the War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 3

During my stay at the front (writes "G" in a series of articles entitled "The Last Lap," published in the "Morning Post") wait one of an audience of nearly…

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The War. Latest News. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 4

Italian official messages says the artillery dicimated forces of the enemy on the southern slopes of Sassorosso and eastward of…

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British Achievement. Work in the War

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 2

In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law, dealing with interesting British achievements, said: Last year 820,000 men were added to the army, while…

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British Achievements. Work in the War. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 2

In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law, dealing with interesting British achievements, said: Last year 820,000 men were added to the army…

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Position in Germany. Renewed War Fever. Amsterdam

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 2

Germany is aflame with renewed war fever, which is affecting all classes, as a result of the extravagant press jubilation regarding the success…

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The King's Speech. References to the War. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 2

Following is the text of the King's speech:—"The necessities of the war Tender it imperative for me, after a brief interval, to summon you again to…

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