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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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

Feed Tommy! Meat for the Soldiers

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 8

"There is one factor that the champions of the export tax overlook," said Mr. Edwin Smith, of Munni Station, Dungog, "and that is that an…

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German Soldiers Suffer. London

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 15

It is reported that Berlin lacks copper, petrol, chloroform, opium, and morphine. Most of the minor operations are…

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Colonial Soldiers in England. Edward's Horse in Training

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 4

K.E.H. CAMP near London, November 20.-- The incident is unrecorded, but probably Lord Kitchener said to a secretary at the War Office one day recently: "The Germans may be…

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A War Episode. How Wounded Help Each Other

The World's News · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 10

THE war, like adversity, makes strange companions, and many pathetic episodes are related of acts…

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A Great Singer & Wounded Soldiers

The World's News · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 16

Famous artists in all parts of the world have been helping their respective countries in the war now raging. Madame Calve, who toured Australia a few years ago, has been visiting the military hospitals throughout France and singing to the wounded and dying soldiers all the favorite songs of their native lands. She has brightened many a ward weary with its load of suffering, and her visit is eager[?]y anticipated…

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Wounded Highlander's Self-sacrifice

The World's News · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 8

During the battle of the Aisne two men of the Highland Light Infantry were wounded, and there was but one stretcher. Each wanted the other to go, and at length the bigger of the two raised himself on his unwounded arm and cried, "Ye go the noo, Jock, an' if ye're no slippy aboot it, ye'll gaur me gie ye something…

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The War

Evening News · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 6
Also in The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate

It is cabled that a struggle in being waged over the control of the roadway connecting the German positions round [?] is Chitean, on the waters outskirts of the [?]…

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"War Chest."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 14

Amount alreadv acknowledged. £[?]/2/10; War Chest[?] 1, 280, £3/10/4; employees S. [?]ung; and Co. £4/13/8: employees Mitchell and Co.,[?]/[?]; residents of Northwood and Longu[?]ile, per Mrs.urville, per Mrs…

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Hospital Stories of the Wounded in Petrograd

The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 21

Were it not for the daily arrival of the wounded from the front, and the continuous streams of soldiers on their way to the railway stations, Petrograd might be as far…

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Blue Cross League. Care of Wounded Horses

Evening News · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 6

Mr. A. R. Rose Soley, hoh Secretary L[?]ceam Club, writes:— Is, anything being dons to this country to [?] the suffering of horses at the front…

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The Wounded Flag French Regiment's Vow Impressive Ceremony

Saturday Referee and the Arrow · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 1

The flag of the 81st regiment of Infantry. Montpellier (France), has been mutilated and its staff broken in the hands of Lieutenants Dejeanne and Servent, who…

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Pointed War Points

The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 10

Here are some quips about the war from the American Press:— The Turk wonders who is unspeakable now.—"Washington Herald."…

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Latest War News

Nepean Times · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 3

Lard Kitchener, secretary of State for Wary, speaking in the House of Lords on Wednesday evening. reviewed the ebb and flow of the tide…

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SUMMARY. The War --

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 1

A message from Washington states that the British Ambassador has notified the State Department that an arrangement has been completed by which naval stores may be shipped…

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Current News. War

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 6

War on corns. One application each night soon annihilates the enemy. Pye's Corn Solvent differs from all other preparations. Pye's Pharmacy, Parramatta,…

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Famous Horseman Wounded. Russian Who Won Prizes at Olympia

The World's News · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 18

THE famous Russian horseman, Captain M. M. Pleshkoff, who has appeared every year at the Horse Show at Olympla, London, and gained recently the King Edward VII. Cup, has been…

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Progress of the War

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 9

The French are busy in the Argonne district, and have captured trenches on the road to Lille, besides driving back the enemy in Woevro district and capturing a…

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War Problems. Java Tea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 15

Messrs. Liptons write:- We regret that the controversy between ourselves and M. Huber was complicated by the intrusion of anonymous correspondents, with whom we do not propose to…

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War Books. Russia's Advance

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 6

The fog which covers the progress of the war in the East is so thick that any light upon it is welcome. One of the London "Daily Telegraph's" little war books, "The Russian…

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