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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

21,684 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 250

Shot in a Crowd. Man Mysteriously Wounded Wellington

Evening News · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 6

Last night, while Patrick Noonan. a laborer, [?] was standing talking to a man amid a crowd of others in front of the Court Houses Hotel. a shot was heard, and Noonan was…

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Work and War Problems

The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 21

Mr. Philip Snowden, the English Labor-Socialist M.P., who passed through Sydney last week on his back Home, via America, after a world tour, discussed the question of wages…

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Special War-Intercession Services

Nepean Times · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 2

At the Pemith Churches generally on this Sunday (3rd January, 1915), special services of Intercession, asking the Divine Intervention for the…

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War Books. More Bernhardi

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 6

Another book by General von Bernhardt! It was entitled by the author "Our Future: A Word of Warning to the German Nation." But the translator into English, Mr. J. Ellis Barker,…

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Progress of the War

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 9

The information that the troops of the South African Union have re-occupied the fortifications at Waifisch Bay, is an interesting item of news, for, up to the present, we…

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Artists and the War

The World's News · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 5

"IT seems strange to read about various wellknown artists whom I know taking part in the war," said Dolly Castles, the principal girl of the "Cinderella" pantomime at Her…

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Picnic Tragedy. Train Fired on by Turks. Four Killed----seven Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 8

BROKEN HILL, Friday.--One of the longest and most crowded picnic trains that has ever left Broken Hill carried those who set out with light hearts this morning to attend the…

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Some Reflections. Mostly on War

The St George Call · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 7

Few people remember or have cared to remember that after the Franco Prussian War quite a number of men and women who had influence in Great…

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Wharf Laborers and the War

The International Socialist · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 3

At the last meeting of the Sydney Socialist I.W.W., the following resolution was carried: "That the decision of the Wharf Labourers' Union not to work with…

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War Notes. Fighting in Flanders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 11

Of the fighting in the western theatre that on the extreme left of the Allies' line appears to be for the moment the most violent. The Belgians and French are making a…

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Under Shell Fire. Graphic Description by a Wounded Officer. The Terrible Shrapnel

The World's News · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 8

A WOUNDED officer, now in hospital in London, gives the following vivid account of the experiences of himself and his men under the fire of German artillery at…

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Hospitals and the War. London Institutions

Evening News · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 3

Nobody could realise befo[?]baad whit a European war would mean in the way of throwing extra work upon our hospital. The only [?]afe course was to provide plants of…

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Will Change All War and Europe

The Sun · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 7

It is reported in the newspapers that ladles in the fashionable world of New York are organising to establish America as the arbiter of women's fashions. The French sceptre is…

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Back in Paris. Effects of War

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 6

PARIS, November 9.--Paris in November, 1914! Can it really be the gay city, one asks one self? This quiet, half- empty, half-lit place where the rare vehicles Jog down the streets…

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The War. South Africa. Burghers Called Out

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 9

The South African Union is using the power given under its Defence Act to call out men for military service. The proclamation states that though the rebellion has…

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Sacrifice to the Bloodstained God of War

The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 5

HAS BEEN FOUGHT OUT SO FAR, AND AS IS LIKELY TO BE CONTINUED IN THE MONTHS TO COME. WHILE IT IS HAS BEEN MADE TO INDICATE THE MAIN FEATURES OF THE COUNTRIES IN WHICH THE ALLIES AND THE GRAPHICALLY SHOWN AND GIVE A VIVID PICTURE OF THE RELATIVE STRENGTH OF THE VARIOUS FRONTIER LINES…

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National Highland Gathering. the Influence of War

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 11

There was a touch of something real about the annual gathering of New South Wales Scotsmen at the Agricultural Grounds, Sydney, yesterday. Instead of a blaring hot…

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The German Socialist Party and the War

The International Socialist · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 2

The Zurish Social-Democratic" organ "Volksrecht" published the following declaration on October 31:— "Comrades Dr. Sudekum and Richard…

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Mr. B. R. Wise on the War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 12

"The War of Nations" is the title Mr. Bernhard R. Wise, K.C., has given to a comprehensive pamphlet dealing with the war, just published by George Robertson and Co…

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Picnickers Shot. Details of the Barrier Qutrage. List of Killed and Wounded. Broken Hill, Saturday Morning

Evening News · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 6

Further details have been received of the shooting of a number of picnickers by supposed Turks near Silverton yesterday. The train in which the picnickers were traveling was…

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