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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
21,684 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 250
The semi-official ''Cologne Gazette,'' of October 16, contains a lengthy, unsigned communication headed ''Aus London,'' purporting to be a narrative of conditions prevalent in…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →''The rank and file of the German Army are, to speak generally, puppets and serfs; and it seems to be the fixed resolve of the German war-lords that they should be so,'' says Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A WOMAN may be just as big a fool at sour seventy as she was at sweet seventeen. In fact, you can say about 'emthat a woman's elways a woman, so long as…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The bugle calls, The bugle calls, O'er mouutain, hill, and vale The bugle calls,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Soldier writes.—"Despite the provisions of part 66 of the Defence Act, which allows members of the miliatary forces to travel free on trams when in possession of a pass,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Nearly nine hundred men were enrolled in Victoria during the week. for the Expeditionary Force. Yesterday about seventy passed tho examinations, and to-day fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Defence Department requires 41,000 sea kit bags for the Expeditionary Force, and has asked each metropolitan city to contribute a certain number…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PARIS, November 9. -- "Toussaint," or "All Saints' Day," is the groat change-of-season holiday in France, and the picturesque custom is still retained of visiting the cemeteries and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sir, -- A great, deal is being said about what the Government is doing and is not doing, the latter being much the more not noticeable, in connection with sending troops to the front…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →From the window of a trolley car on a line that connects several small cities and large villages in central New York, the traveller can see a scythe swinging from…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The report of the Commission on German atrocities in France and Belgium says that the details of rape and other crimes are too…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →According to the well-informed Rome correspondent of the "Tetlt Parisien," Austria is complaining more and more that she is being sacrificed by Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The following extracts from the letter of an unnamed French soldier to his father in Paris are published by the "Figaro" : "Wounded in the stomach about 6 o'clock in the morning, I am left in the rain and in mud so deep that I am obliged to lean on my elbows…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sergeant G. H. Brown (2nd Manchester Regiment), describing his experiences in France writes :— While chasing the poor, demoralised…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A few of us have no relatives in the war. I have none. I have friends in Lord Kitchener's Army, but as yet they are soldiers in the making. At present there are no sick beds, no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Professional scullers are beginning to feel the effects of the war, and the outlook for the sport is not encouraging. They made a good start this year by providing a race for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An English chaplain who is at Berlin writes:-- "I visited Doberitz on Christmas morning, and found the war prisoners interned there…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miss Rose Scott, president of the Peace Society, is naturally against all wars, and refused to make any compromise with her principles, in favor of the present one, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAPT. HARRY S. RANKEN, Royal Army Medical Corps, who has since died of his…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Official Press Bureau issues a record dealing with the maltreatment of priests in Belgium by the Germans. It states that churches and religious houses in almost every…
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