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The wars & local soldiers, 1916

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The War. Tuesday morning

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 4

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Metals and the War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 3

It is not without interest to not that, in the opinion of well-informed persons, a decisive military triumph for the Entente would mean a great rush of orders…

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Profiting by the War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 3

“Great Britain’s benevolent disposition has been exploited very gravely to her own disadvantage. Not one of the neutral States of Europe which has…

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Should Young Girls Marry Soldiers?

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 8

That is rather a crude way of summarising a proposition in the February issue of “Everylady’s Journal,” just to hand. But…

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Soldiers go on Strike. Serious Riots in the City Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 5

Numbers of troops at Liverpool and Casula camps refused duty as a protest against the new training syllabus. Large numbers of the troops…

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Latest War Telegrams

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 19 February 1916 · page 1

Copenhagen reports that Duke Mecklenburg is en route for Bucharest as the Kaiser's envoy to offer Roumania a loan of £12,000,000…

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War Cables. the Latest. London

The Bega Budget · Saturday 19 February 1916 · page 2

The Austrians are advancing towards Durazzo. The garrison at Erzerum is estimated at 80,000. The Turks…

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The Soldiers' Strike and Riot

The Bega Budget · Saturday 19 February 1916 · page 2

There's nothing surprising in the fact that the recruits training at the Liverpool and Casula military camps should have…

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Recruiting committee. Farewelling Soldiers

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 19 February 1916 · page 4

The meeting convened for Tuesday night to consider ways and means of farewelling volunteers from this centre was poorly attended, but those…

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Soldiers on Strike

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 19 February 1916 · page 4

Our telegraphic correspondent, wired on Tuesday:—"Soldiers strike riot yesterday culminated at midnight at the central railway station, where…

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Late War News. Wednesday afternoon

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 21 February 1916 · page 4

Count Bernstoff informed his government that the United States has dropped points unacceptable to Germany, and…

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The European War Monday afternoon

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 21 February 1916 · page 3

The enemy's troops reached the French trenches at Soissons, but were driven back by a counter attack…

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The War. Friday morning

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 February 1916 · page 2

A Zeppelin, driven by a storm, landed in Holland, and was wrecked. The garrison at Erzerum is estimated at 80.000. The Turks are in…

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War Cables. the Latest. London

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 23 February 1916 · page 2

The Grand Duke Nicholas continues to attack with lighting blown along the whole front from the Black Sea to Luke Van. The…

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War Census Cards. a Federal Proclamation

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 February 1916 · page 5

It is notified by proclamation in the Commonwealth "Gazette" that the personal appeal cards issued in connection with the recruiting movement…

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War Taxation

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 February 1916 · page 3

“When means of economy have been exhausted towards meeting the tremendous liabilities accruing to the Australian people, it will be necessary…

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The War. Tuesday morning

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 February 1916 · page 4

Salonika reports that Greek and Bulgarian patrols fought a sharp engagement at Doivan, when the Bulgarians crossed the frontier…

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The War. Thursday morning

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 February 1916 · page 2

A train carrying guns and ammunition to Novo Aleksandrovsk is reported to have been-blown up and hundreds of soldiers killed…

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Nothing The Same Again. Life After the Great War

The Nowra Leader · Friday 25 February 1916 · page 7

The great war has altered the social face of Europe, just as much as the glacial epoch once altered its physical surface. The Hohenzollern glacial period has set…

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The Tanned Sheepskin Clothing Committee. for Our Soldiers at the Front

The Nowra Leader · Friday 25 February 1916 · page 7

The season for supplying vests to the men at the front being over, and the inflow of subscriptions since Christmas not warranting the expenditure, the committee…

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