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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

21,684 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250

Raid on Dunkirk. Civilians Killed and Wounded

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 12

Four German aeroplanes made a raid on Dunkirk,'and dropping 17 bombs, killed 15 civilians and wounded 32 others. The aeroplanes, at intervals of ten…

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War Rates Reduced

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 17

According to advices received, by the Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association, war risks have been reduced a further half per cent, '' The rates now are, "homeward and…

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War Pensions Board

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 16

The Federal Executive Council on Dec. 30 appointed the members of the 'Pensions' Board under the War Pensions Act to investigate the claims for the pensions by derpndents…

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Query Club. War

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 29

TROPICAL FORCE.—"Anxious": Recruiting for the tropical force ceased some time ago. More men may be ?wanted later on, but it is impossible at present to get…

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A Long War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 12

The official eyewitness with the British Expeditionary force, says that fighting is going on on ground where both sides have been excavating for weeks in all directions, until the…

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Prisoners of War

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 2

In these days no prisoner of war is likely to be so well treated as King John I of France, who, after his capture at Poitiers, was lodged first at the Palace of the Savoy…

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Italy's War Loan

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 9

ROME, Tuesday.-- The war loan been over subscribed…

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War Brings Mice

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 8

One curious result of a foreign invasion. is recorded in the letters of Prince Metternich to Mme. de Lieven, says the Chronicle. From Judenburg, a small town in…

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Postbag of the War. Soldiers' Stories. Officer's Feelings Under Fire

Evening News · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 8

An interesting pictures of the feelings of a man under fire is given in the current "Cambridge Review" in a letter written to his father by Lieutenant H. J. S. Shields, of the…

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

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 7

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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The Ravages of War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 30

Dwellings damaged by German shells. (Copyright photos. by the L.N. A., London.)…

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America and the War

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 5

It is hard to know what Mr. Roosevelt is at. He is certainly urging the United States to declare war on Germany, as a protest against the betrayal of Belgium: though the United…

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War Notes. Still Advancing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 11

The advance of the Russians holds our interest just now. The official news from Petrograd is that they continue on their irresistible march. They have made further progress in…

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Progress of the War

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 9
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The persistent rumors from America of Influential - Germans promoting a peace movement need not be taken for more than American rumors of' that kind are usually…

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Eastern Theatre of War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 11

The heavlost fighting in Poland apparently is taking place along the Bzura and Rawka, in the regions of Sochaczow, Bollmow, and Rawa. North-east of Rawa the Russians recently recaptured trenches from the Germans. Attompts by the Germans to send troops from Sklerniwice to assist the Austrians in Galicia were frustrated. In the north the Germans operating from Neldenburg and Soldau recently retook Mlava, from which place they had…

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Wounded, But Happy: a Hero of the Battle of Ypres

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 14

OUR picture shows an Indian, wounded but happy, who took part in the great battle of ypres. His hand having boon shattered, he was sent back 10 England. In the course of an official report concerning the Indians it is stated: "It is a subject for great satisfaction that the Indian troops have so finely fulfilled the high expectations…

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War Notes. Progress in Alsace

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 5

The exultation of the French over their capture of Steinbach in Alsace, founded on the hope of seeing the tricolor float over Mulhausen and Strasbourg, does hot mean…

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War Wool. London, Tuesday Night

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 1

The British wool factories are still glutted with work, and oversea trade is practically crippled, but, taken as a whole, no pessimistic disposition is shown…

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War Supplies. Germany's Enemies Benefiting

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 9

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.--German and her delegates appeared before the. Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Representatives to urge the prohibition of the…

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