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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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War Needed

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 3

"My conviction is that, from a moral point of view, Europe needed the war in order to get rid of an enormity of pomp, snobbery, carelessness, and animalism,…

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The War. the Carpathians

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 6

Telegrams from Petrograd attribute the Russian success to brilliant artillery work Single guns were warped along hard mountain paths…

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Mr. H. G. Wells on "Scientific War."

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 4

Mr. H. G. Wells, in the course of an article contributed to the January "Windsor Magazine," says: "No doubt much ingenuity will stand…

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What Our Soldiers Dream

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 3

A correspondent of the "Lancet," who is in charge of an ambulance on the Continent, when his time was not fully occupied by surgical emergencies,…

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The War. CARPATHIANS

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 April 1915 · page 6

A communique states:—Desperate fighting is taking place in the Carpathians between the villages of Telepoich and Zuella. We captured…

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War and the Woman

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 April 1915 · page 3

She looked up at him through her tears "You do love me, Harry?" "More than anything on earth, little Gipsy. So help, me God! it's true. I…

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The War. London, April 19

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 April 1915 · page 2

The British submarine E15 ran aground in the Dardanelles. The Turks rescued and made prisoners of 24 of the crew. Seven members of the crew are missing…

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"That Was War!" a Pathan Charge. Desperate Bayonet Work. Walls of Human Dead. North-eastern France

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 April 1915 · page 4

"That is good, Sahib—now we will have war!" The speaker was a tall, straight-limbed, pale-faced Pathan from the northern hills. He had just heard that an…

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The Lonely Soldier. Gift to Australians

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 April 1915 · page 4

Marie Corellie writes in the London Evening News an appeal for gifts of gramophones and other musical instruments, to relieve the tedium of the lonely soldier. A Lonely…

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What the Women Want. Changed Conditions. Clubs for Soldiers' Wives

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 April 1915 · page 4

"It is not home without dirty boots coming in," a soldier's wife said to me the other day. "There is nothing to clean." She was a plucky woman who took the…

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War in the Air

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 24 April 1915 · page 6

Mr. Shepherd, American correspondent at British headquarters, relates that a Taube flew over Ypres on Sunday, and enticed two British…

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Dr. Fitchelt's Brilliant War Articles

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 24 April 1915 · page 6

In the May issue, just to hand, "Life," our leading Australasian magazine, gives the most adequate and most picturesque review of the…

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The War. Fight at Zillebeke

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 24 April 1915 · page 6

The Official Press Bureau states that a successful action commencing on the evening of the 17th culminated on Sunday in the capture of…

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The War. in FLANDERS.—Hill No. 6o. LONDON, April 21

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 24 April 1915 · page 2

The War Office announces that violent and continual counter-attacks against Hill No. 60, near Ypres, which the British captured…

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'Phones in the War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 April 1915 · page 3

The telephone has not done away with the old methods of military signalling by Hugs and tho hellograph, but it is certainly supplementing them most effectively. Nor…

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Why War News Is Dull

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 April 1915 · page 3

The comfortable critic says that the war is becoming monotonous (says the San FranCisco Argonaut). One report is very much like another, and the process of reaching…

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The War. Great Battle London, April 25

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 April 1915 · page 6

Newspaper correspondents agree that the present fighting in Flanders may become the greatest struggle in which the British army has been…

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Romance of the Trenches. the Catacombs of War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 April 1915 · page 4

"Other times, other manners," applies as accurately to the battlefield as it does else where. The cavalry charge is nearly extinct mass formation is going, hand-to-hand…

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War and the Woman Book Iv. Chapter IV. Continued

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 April 1915 · page 4

"Oh, my God!" she said, wheeling about and facing him so suddenly that he sat bolt upright. "Don't you see what it means. Has it not been going on under…

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The District and the War

Robertson Advocate · Friday 30 April 1915 · page 2

The Major of Mittagong has convened a public meeting for to-night (Friday) to make arrangements in the interests of Bidgian Day. The patriotic public of Mittagong will no…

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