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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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The war. Western Front

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 6

A communique statea:—A violent storm throughout Monday prevented operations on meet of the front, but progress was mede by the Allies in the…

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The War. German Air Raid

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 2

Four German neroplanes dropped 17 bombs at Dunkirk. Fifteen civilians were killed and 32 wounded. The four aeroplanes, at intervals…

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The War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 6

It is officially announced that the battleship Formidable was sunk in the English Channel by a mine or submarine…

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Train Fired on by Turks. Four Killed—seven Wounded

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 6

One of the longest and most crowded point trains that has ever left Broken Hill carried these who set out with light hearts on Friday morning to…

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The War. the Formidable

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 2

It is stated that the explosion on H.M.S. Formidable occurred abaft the magazine. An unbearable stench arose from the explosive…

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War and the Woman Chapter Vi. Goodwill Toward Men. I.

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 4

Faber arrived in Berlin three days after the yacht had put into Venice. The cordiality of his reception in the German capital surprised him. Known both as the…

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A War Vignette. Soul of a Dead Village. Five Hundred Lunatics

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 3

The London Observer gives some passages from a striking series of articles which Gine Calza Bedolo has been contributing as special correspondent to the Glornale d'Italia, Signer…

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A War Picture. the Homeward Ferry. Crimson and White. H.m.s Asturias

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 3

Of the many long stages which our wounded have to travers between the battlefield and the place of convalescence in England, the easiest, the most comfortable, and…

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Tongues Cut Out. Russian Soldiers Mutilated

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 2

Two stories of atrocities were told in Petrograd on October 18 by wounded Russians who had just been allowed out of hospital. One,…

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Motorcycle in War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 3

For the first time in the history of the world the motor -cycle may be called upon to take no unimportant part in what may provo to be the greatest…

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The War. the Turks

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 6

The Turks eastward of E[?]zerum fought bravely and held Sarykamish deparately. They made frequent bayonet sorties and even the wounded…

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The District and the War

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

The Moss Vale and District War Fund now amounts to £296 10s 9d. The public are reminded that during the present month the Government is…

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Come to the War. Letter From Mittagong Native

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 2
Also in Robertson Advocate

A nephew of Mr J. Mealing, Mittagong (and a native of that town), who is at present with the Australian [?]apeditionary [?] in Egypt, writes from Alexandria under date…

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The War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 2

Attacks by the enemy have been repulsed at several points along the western front. Fierce fightit'g has been taking…

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Duration of War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 6

Mr. Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, believes that the war will last till 1917. The submarine, he says, has proved…

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War and the Woman

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 4

"Oh, how cold it is—how cruelly cold I can write no more, even by a warm fireside. Perhaps Maryska will write herself soon—horrible thought, I have yet to…

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The War. Russian Progress

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 6

A communique states:— The fighting on the Sukha-Moghilev front on the left bank of the Vistula is becoming increasingly fiercer. The…

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Horses in War. Occupy Important Position

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 3

Despite prophecies to the contrary, the horse still occupies an Important position in modern warfare (says Pearson's Weekly), for the cavalryman is by no means out of date;…

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