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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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The War Food Fund. Australian Meat in England

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 6

The secretary of the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, London, writes to the Sydney Chamber of Commerce as fol lows, appreciative of a gift of meat…

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A Soldier

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 4

"Kneeling by a wounded soldier in a little tent lighted by a candle flickering in the wind, the chaplain was addressed thus: 'Am I dying, sir [?]'…

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The War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 2

The "Messagero's" Petrograd correspondent states that the conflict along the Vistula and the Rawka was titanic. Soldiers fell in…

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War and Foreign Science

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 3

Our readers may have noticed that translations from foreign scientific journals are not numerous in our columns of late. The reason is well stated in the Scientific…

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War—It's Reconstruction and Real Values

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 2

War, and war service, are, at the moment, among the most useful things to which the majority of us can turn our attention. War, and war problems,…

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The War. Eastern Front. London, Feb. 6

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 6

Two supreme attacks were made by the Germans on Tuesday on the Rawka, after the Russian artillery 's day of unceasing slaughter…

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Little Old Albion. Yankee Story of the War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 4

London is not the only spot that is churning out its histories of the war (says London Opinion). Not by a jugful. New York is getting busy too in this line. and here is the…

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War and the Woman. Book Iii. Chapter Iii. (Continued.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 3

Through this press, by many a filthy street, the cor conveyed the strangers to their destination. This lay some way down the Commercial Road and was officially…

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The Soldier's Wife

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 4

A soldier's wife thus protests in the London Star:— I trust you will allow me space to protest against the latest insult to soldiers' wives by…

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The Soldiers' Pal. General Sir H. Smith-dorrien

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 4

"He's a pal that's what he is," recently said an enthusiastic Tommy of General Sir H. Smith-Dorrien, and in that pregnant sentence revealed the secret of the great…

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The District and the War

The Southern Mail · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 3

A sports meeting, run by a local committee of gentlemen in conjunction with the local branch of the Red Cross, was held at "Hill View" Sutton…

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War Winner

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 4

"The side which can raise the last hundred millions is going to win."…

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The War. BORJIMOFF. London, Feb. 10

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 6

A Petrograd communique states: The Germans began operations with a large force in the Lasdehnen region (East Prussia). We repulsed and…

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British Soldiers. German Officer's Admissions

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 3

An editor of the 'Berliner Tageblatt,' who is taking part in the battle in Flanders, as an officer of the Reserve, has sent a letter to his paper, in which he…

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Austrian War Lament

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 3

We Austrians cannot stand the drizzle Of Russian shrapnel at Przemysl! The Russian hordes are in the track of Our noble men who flee to Krakaw…

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The War. Aerial Raid

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 6

The Admiralty [?] that 34 aeroplanes made an attack on Bruges, Zeebragge, and Ostend, with a view of destroying the German submarine base…

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Moss Vale and The War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 2

We published last issue the balance sheet of the Red Cross Society as we did the previous week of the Moss Vale District War Fund. It will be…

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Workers at the War. Distillers' Difficulty

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 3

Messrs. Mackie and Co. Distillers. Limited, the well-known White Home distillers, have had to ask the forbearance of their numerous customers in the execution of orders…

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War and the Woman. Chapter Iv .— (Continued)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 3

They went down St. James's Street and turned into pall Mall. Here their taxi was held up by a howling mob, indulging in the ancient and amusing pastime of…

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Chaplain at the Front. Weird Stories Op War. Rev. S. Watkins 'S Experiences

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 4

Rev. Owen S. Watkins. one of the Wesleyan Methodist chaplains with the Expeditionary Force (already mentioned in the despatches). tells some most extraordinary…

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