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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

806 stories in South Coast's papers · page 10 of 41

The War

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 3

A supertax on the tax on dogs and goats has been introduced at Dusseldorf. The Germans' idea is to save stores by reducing the…

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War and Peace Parties

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 4

Mr. Martin Donohoe, correspondent for the "Daily Chronicle," reports from Constanza that n bitter struggle is taking place in…

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War Cables. the Latest. London

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 2

An official French review says that the Germans are losing men at the rale of 260,000 a month, and can have only two million…

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War Cablegrams

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 2

Relations between [?] Austrian and German [?] are [?] Wednesday, [?]…

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War Forecast

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 5

Numerous inquiries have been made as to the identity of the the latest prophet who has ventured a forecast as to the probable duration of the war. His…

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War Finance

The Bega Budget · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 4

Our advices from London state that the Imperial Government is asking for authority to raise £250,000,000 in the financial year…

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The War

The Bega Budget · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 3

General Jo[?] in the course of an interview, said that the long war in the trenches had enabled the Allies to increase their…

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Archery in War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 3

We think of the bow and arrow as mediaeval weapons of war, abandoned by the nations of Europe four or five centuries ago; the bowmen of Crecy are…

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England’s War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 3

“England, for the sake of this mysterious, ‘balance of power’ divided the Old World into two armed camps. She did it knowingly—as ‘spiritus rector’ in…

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Latest War News. Sydney

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 2

The bombardment of the Bosphorus has been interrupted by a fog. A Copenhngen telegram states that two [?] passed westward on…

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Copper in War. Its Supreme Importance

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 3

Although the Chancellor of the Exchequer happily chose the simile of “silver bullets” to explain the economic process by which Germany must ultimately…

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War Cables. the Latest. London

The Bega Budget · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 2

The bombardment of the Bosphorus wan interrupted by fog. A Copenhagon telegram states that two Zeppelins passed…

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£9,000,000 a Day. What the War Is Costing

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 3

From the official statistics of the various belligerent countries the “Vorwaerts” estimates the costs of the present war. The British Government states,…

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Soldierly

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 3

“Lord Kitchener’s notion that we are going to settle down to years of war as we died a century ago, is soldierly, but not sensible.”…

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War News the Week. (Summary of the Cables.)

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 1

Fighting is desperate in North-eastern Poland. Russians slowly but surely capturing heights and trenches. Exclusive of Przemysl the Russians…

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Nowra and District War Fund

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 1

A meeting of the committee of the Nowra and District War Fund was held on Tuesday, 30th March, Mr. T. R. Peak being in the chair. It was…

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War Cablegrams

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 2

There was a vigorous cannonade from Zeebrugge on Friday, warships replying. Tuesday 10 a.m…

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War and Democracy

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 3

“Whatever may be the crimes which the military oligarchy of Germany have committed against civilisation by their [?] misuse of a vast military…

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Latest War News. Sydney

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 3

German prisoners state that during the recent attacks in southern Woevre, six German battalions were wiped out. Official…

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Australian Soldier's Farewell To His Mother

The Nowra Leader · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 1

I bid you now farewell mother. To answer the soldiers' call, And leave with you my brother, So no danger can befall…

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