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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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Reasons Behind the War. the Great Gamble

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

Roland G. Usher's Interpretations in The Atlantic Monthly of The Reasons Behind the War suggest that Austria's difficulties rather than Germany's ambition were responsible…

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Moss Vale District War Fund and Relief for Belgians

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

The first committee meeting of the new year was held at the council chambers on Friday evening last, and a further £25 was voted to the…

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Cost of the War. an American Estimate. Cannot Last Five Years

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

Roger W. Babson is writing for the New York Sun a series of articles on the economic side of the war, in the first of which he asserts that the war already has caused the…

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Killed in Action

The Southern Mail · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 2

A resident of Bowral has just received a letter from Mrs Roch Davies (late Miss Swi[?] of Bowral), dated Weatport House, Pembroke, South…

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The District and the War

Robertson Advocate · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

The moss Vale and District War Fund has reached £309 10s 9d. The Bowral Red Cross and Patriotic Funds now amount to £425 12s 11d…

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When War Started

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 6

In Paris, under date January 13, sea ped prisoners gave some accounts of the capture of Montmedy, charlemont, and Longway early in the…

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The War. Western Front

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 6

A communique on Jan. 12 stated: There has been violent cannonading from the sen to the Oise, and very lively fighting round the trenches…

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The Duty to Make War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 4

It is interesting at the present time to recall what Martin Luther had to say on the subject of war. He realised its horrors. But saw moro in it than…

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Ex-rays and Wounds. Progress Singe the Boer War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 3

It is stated by an expert that the value of X-ray photography has never been realised sp fully in England as during the past six weeks, says the…

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Living Like Princes. Wounded in Moscow

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 3

There is no such simple and cheerful and open-hearted and gossipy city In all Europe as Moscow in the opinion of the correspondent of the New York Herald. It has, the…

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The War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

A communique issued in Berlin states that during the four weeks since General Joffre published his general order for attack the French…

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War and the Woman

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 4

I've been up to the ice - blink twice, and I was in Alaska three years ago," said Trevelle. "This bents anything have seen, easily. What would you say the…

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Angel Comforter. Grand Duchess As Nurse. Wounded Officer 'S Story

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 4

An elderly Russian field officer relates the following story: " On arriving from the battlefield, where I was wounded by three bullets from a…

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Will Change All. War and Europe

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 3

It is reported In the newspapers that ladies In the fashionable world of New York are organization to establish America us tho arbiter of women 's fashions. The French sceptre is…

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England in War Time. Pride in the Empire

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 3

A lady who is a leading member of the staff of Bedford College for Woman of London university writes to her brother in [?] bourne, under date November 12, as…

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War's Good Side. Checking of Disease. Typhoid Almost Eliminated

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 4

Tho war-god may .slay ruthlessly with one hand, but he ministers with the other to the sick and feeble. Half of him Is clad in armor and the other' half In the garb of a…

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The War. Battle of Soissons. French Bravery. Paris, Jan. 17

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 6

Details of the recent fighting at Soissons show that the French made a resolute advance on the Bethune-road, and rushed a farm, where they…

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Her Death Warrant. Turkey and the War. Piled Up Provocations

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 3

Turkey 's abrupt entry Into the war may (in the opinion ol u New York paper) precipitare that punishment foreseen by a writer in the Purls Figaro as a result of her recent…

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The War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 2

Reports of a Z ppeliu raid on the I Norfolk coast were received about midnight n Tuesday, it being at first stated that a German aeroplane…

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