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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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War Cablegrams. Friday 3.30 p.m

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 May 1915 · page 2

The opinion is growing that Italy will not attack Austria, but that she will send a squadron to reinforce the Allied flec[?]s…

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Tragedy of War. Wife’s Fatal Affection

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 May 1915 · page 4

A ease of extraordinary poignacy (says the Paris correspondent of an English paper; will Shorty com[?] up for judgment before the [?]…

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The War

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 5 May 1915 · page 2

A vast contraband organisation for re-victualling Austria, Hungary, and Germany, has been discovered at Naples, where the…

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War Cables. the Latest. London

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 5 May 1915 · page 2

There was an engagement in the North Sen recently, and a British destroyer and two German torpedo boats were sunk…

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Latest War News. Sydney

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 7 May 1915 · page 2

Lloyd George says if the war lasted for the financial year the army would require 400 millions, the navy 120 millions, advances to the Allies and Do…

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War Cablegrams. Tuesday, 2 p.m

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 May 1915 · page 2

Italy’s position and intentions remain shrouded in mystery. One rumor asserts that she is ready to intervene in favor of the Allies. A…

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War News the Week

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1915 · page 1

The French Embassy in London states that 19 shells fell at Dunkirk. and 20 civilians were killed and 53 wounded…

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War Cables. the Latest. London

The Bega Budget · Saturday 8 May 1915 · page 2

The seventh casualty list published gives the total killed so far as 141 for New South Wales. Died of wounds: Sergeants Shipley…

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Land For Our Soldiers, (To the Editor.)

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1915 · page 3

Sir,—When the men of the Aus-tralian forces return to this country after the war is over they will be face-to-face with the problem of how to earn a living. In some cases…

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Local "Soldiering."

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1915 · page 2

The local squad drill movement assumed practical form nu Monday night in a most gratifying manner. Some 25 or so young fellows lined up…

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War Cablegrams. Friday, 10.20 a.m

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 May 1915 · page 2

Many wounded soldiers from the Dardanelles have arrived at Malta where large hospitals are established and staffed with English…

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Latest War News. Sydney

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 14 May 1915 · page 2

French successes to the north of Arras are extending; they captured an entire system of trenches across one road and assaulted a large fort which…

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War Cablegrams. Tuesday 10 a. m

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1915 · page 2

The death roll of the Lusitania is stated by the Canard Company to total 1899. All the officers were [?] excepting the first and so[?]…

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French War Ruse. Germans Led Astray

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1915 · page 4

The Paris “Correspondent” publishes an interesting account of the way in which the German Intelligence Department was tricked…

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Fitness in War. the Necessity of R[?]m

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1915 · page 4

At a social meeting of the Royal Courts of Justice and Local Temperance Society in the Old Hall, Lincoln’s Inn, on March 16. Major…

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Enlisting. (To the Editor "Nowra Leader.")

The Nowra Leader · Friday 14 May 1915 · page 1

Sir,--Just at present there it a certain amount of talk about the number of men who have enlisted for service in the present war from various districts, and some people…

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British and French Soldiers

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1915 · page 6

No better proof of the binding sympathy between the British and French nations can be had than the cordial relation which exits between the soldiers…

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The War

The Bega Budget · Saturday 15 May 1915 · page 2

Since the beginning of the war, 201 English merchantmen, yachts, trawlers, and drifters bad been sunk, and 1556 passengers and…

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Our War specials

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1915 · page 1

Since the outbreak of war there has been issued from the RECORD office about 300 telegrams, received from day to day. The cost of this service…

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War News the Week

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1915 · page 4

The eighth casualty list contains 226 names, with only one death, that of Lieut. W. Hodgson, who died of wounds. The remaining 225 are all…

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