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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

21,684 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250

Keeping Down Expenses. War-time Hints. Gas and Coal Economy

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 12

An experienced housewife, writing in a London paper, gives some useful hints in an article which tells how to halve the gas bill and make the best use of the household coal…

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To Attack England. Germany's Preparations. Information Secured by Spies. Remarkable Pre-war Article

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 3

On April 4, 1914--four months before the war started--William lo Queux, the well-known English author, published in the Saturday Journal an article showing how…

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Told in Five Minutes the Story of the War for Children and Grown-ups, Too

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 5

Out of all the alleged histories of the war that have appeared in volume or in newspaper form, what single one is that produces the I clear, resultant impression of the following…

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Napoleon's Lost Secret French War Office Unearths Despatch a Strategic "Square" Germans Adopt a False System

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 6

The story of the naval secret of the famous Collingwood has already passed round the newspaper world, but has long since ceased to throw the street- corner stall colleges into hot…

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Acres and Lots Market the War "A Blessing in Disguise." Prices Well Maintained Confident Anticipations for 1915

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 15

Operations in the real estate market perhaps reflect the general opinions and feeling better than in any other form of Investment. Here the richman and the worker moot on fairly…

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The Reality of War Von Clausewitz the Greatest Authority His Infuence To-day Companion to His Works

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 3

Bernhardi we have heard of, and Von der Goltz we know, but arc these the only men who have influenced German military policy? Are they even original, or arc their teachings…

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More Reasons for the War the Views of a New York Gunman Kings' Embarrassments International Brick Throwing

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 4

So many different sorts of military experts have been airing their views on the war and how It started, that "Collier's Weekly" has had to fall hack on a New York gunman to lift the…

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Accomplice of the Kaiser Crown Prince's Share in the Great Crime Significant Motor Tour Prior to The' War

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 7

What part has the German Crown Prince played in the making of the present why? is one of the questions raised by a reading of a remarkable little book entitled "The Real…

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Books That You May Read Algernon Blackwood Maintains High Level Mystery and Imagination the Literature of the War

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 2

The outstanding feature about Mr. Algernon Blackwood's "Ineredibla Adventures" is their extreme credibility—as expounded by Mr. Blackwood. It is only when after reading, the…

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Great French War Secret Nikola Tesla Discusses Its Possibilities Is It a Gas Bomb H. G. Wells' Atomic Bomb

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 13

What is the great French secret? Since the beginning of the Continental holocaust there have been repeated hints of some cread agent ruin by which paris was…

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What Shall We Do with Them ? German Native's Dual Nationality. Buying " Enemy" Goods Australia's Small War Contingents. "Made in Germany"

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 3

Sir,—As an Englishman I was astonished to find that Sydney snops are simply swarming with German-made goods. In buying presents tills Christmas my wife handed nack to assistants…

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General Joffre Not Napoleon Ii. Study of the Scientific Soldier Yesterday and To-day Science Applied To. Fighting

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 15

Someone declared that Joffre is of the school of Napoleon. It is a generalisation no more accurate than ether generalisations. Nothing could be further from the wars of Napoleon…

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How Deep Call to Deep "I Bow to the Almighty," says British Soldier When Men Face Death—woe of the Mother Heart That Utmost Wok

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 1

Here is one who finely champions the wooded the Mother Heart. "Incognito," writing in the "Observer," says : "Let the men who lectare us sit down and ponder tile poem in which…

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Soldiers' Deaths

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 9

Four soldiers belonging to the Victorian section of the Expeditionary Force were buried yesterday afternoon. The names of the dead men were John T Gough of the Field…

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Soldiers Die. Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 1

The bodies or four soldiers attached to the Victorian section of the Expeditionary Forces were interred to-day. The names of the men were: John Thomas Gough, Third…

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Soldier Cooks. How They Are Trained. Light Horsemen Making Piecrusts. Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 13

"Done to a turn," said one soldier, in a gratified way as he drew out a slide from the oven and looked at his own work. "This seems to want a little more…

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Australia's Bush Soldier. His Tendency Towards Type. Kindness to His Horses. Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 4

"Ha! Queenslanders," said a weather-beaten old pastoralist gazing after two slim light horsemen as they strode up Collins-street. "I could pick them," he said. "You…

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New British Armies. More Men for the Front. Further Rescues From the Formidable. German Mission to Italy Fails. Enemy Admits Million Men Lost. 152nd Day of the War

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 1

A new scheme for further developing the British land forces has been decided on by the War Office. It consists of the creation of armies, each comprising three army corps. Commanders for six of the new armies have been appointed…

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Live up to "Business as Usual" and make Victory a Lashing Triumph Keep the Wheels 1 Turning. the Part in War of the v Business Man New Year's Greetings to the Man Who Pays the Bills. There's a man who fights for England, and he'll keep her still atop, He will guard her from dishonor in the market and the shop, He will cave hor homes from terror on the fields of Daily Bread— He's the man who sticks to business, he's the man who keens Ilia head

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1915 · page 8

Let us ring out a peal of bells in Australia and every part of the British Empire this New Year time for the men who keep the flag of commerce flying. If there is one fact more…

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A Cricketer Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1915 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday.--Captain schwarz, the cricketer, who visited Australia with the South Africans, has been severely wounded in South Africa…

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