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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

3,135 stories in Riverina's papers · page 29 of 157

Soldiers' Comforts Fund. Annual Meeting of Wagga Branch. a Successful Year

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 February 1918 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Wagga Soldiers' Comforts Fund was hold in the Masonic Hall, Wagga, yesterday afternoon. The president, Mrs. E. E. Collins,…

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Canadian Politics. Soldiers' Vote. Ottawa

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 February 1918 · page 2

The soldiers' vote gives the Government a total majority of 60 in the House of Commons, including 45 as a result of the civilian vote in December…

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Returned Soldiers. Twenty Pee Cent. Not Seen Battle. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 February 1918 · page 4

The Minister for Defence says that up to December 31, 10,300 members of the A.I.F. had been returned who had not been in the theatre of active operations…

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Local & GENERAL Returned soldiers' Reception

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1918 · page 2

At our Town Hall to-morrow night there will be a stirring time, the occasion being the welcome home to the returned soldiers…

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Australia's Debt of Honour Repatriating our Soldiers

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1918 · page 4

Of the many duties which the war has brought Australia, none, is more important than the repatriation of her soldiers From tho purely…

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Empire War Loan. British War Boards' Success. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 1

Mr. Bonar Law, M.P., in a speech at the Aldwych Club, said National War Boards had already raised more than the total new money secured by the…

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Staggering Cost of War

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 3

The price is not the least staggering amount the considerations attaching to the European war. We are given to understand that it has…

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A Soldier Priest. Chaplain Bossence in Descriptive Mood. Vivid Pen Pictures

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 4

Captain Chaplain Bossence writes us from the front:—"At present we are halting to reinforce men and beasts…

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Soldier Injured. Accidental Shooting at Bongongolong. Attacked by a Fox

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 4

A returned soldier, Wm. Robinson, who is at present an inmate of St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, furnishes an unusual hard…

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Returned Soldiers. Placed in Employment. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 1

Mr. F. C. Govers, Secretary of the State War Council, states that 367 returned soldiers were placed in employment during the fortnight ending…

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Letters for Soldiers

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 4

In addressing mail to soldiers serving abroad, only the name of that regiment; battalion, battery, company or corps in which the member is…

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Soldiers Father Murdered Defending His Son's Rifle. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 2

The "Daily Mail's" London correspondent states:— The situation in the south-west of Ireland is fretting out of hand,…

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The War

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 2

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

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War Chest

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 4

The usual fortnightly working her was held in the Mcchanies' Institute on Tuesday last There was a good attendance and a fair…

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Post-war Conditions

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 7

"Far seeing people are everywhere forecasting our probable post-war conditions. What nill men and women dot How will they be employed! When the…

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War loan. Australia Prosperous

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 3
Also in The Murrumbidgee Irrigator

The sixth Wars Loan was launched last week. Applications for bonds close on April 10th and a vigorous publicity campaign is being…

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Win-the-War League

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 2

The public meeting held on Monday night last in connection -with the above was fairly well attended, Mr. President…

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Citizens' "War Chest" Fund

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 3

The half-yearly meeting will be held next Tuesday, 5th instant, at the Enterprise Hall. All members subscribers and friends are cordially invited to…

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To-day’s War News

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 2

A Reuter’s Washington message says : —If America sanctions the movement for an expedition to Vladivostocki Japan can have 200,000 troops in Siberia within two…

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