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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

21,684 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 250

The Outlook. Effect of the War. Are Good Times or Bad Times Ahead?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 January 1915 · page 8

Everyone in the community is interested in the problem of whether the new year will bring in its train times of prosperity or of depression. Merchants…

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Wages and War. Railway Workers' Conference. Mr. Justice Heydon Criticised. Half-time System Condemned

Evening News · Monday 4 January 1915 · page 3

The annual conference of the Railway Workers and General Laborer's [?] was opened this morning in the Sydney Trades Hall by the president, Mr. W. [?] were…

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Half the World at War. Thousand Million People Involved. South America the Only Continent at Peace

Evening News · Monday 4 January 1915 · page 6

With the addition of Turkey and Portugal to the ranks of the belligerents. the area of [?] has been extended to apporx[?]tely [?] percent. of the land surface of the globe. and…

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Where Soldiers Meet

Evening News · Monday 4 January 1915 · page 1

The salvation [?] is taking a keen [?] in the [?] and Comm[?] reports that [?] been [?]…

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Church Tent for Soldiers

Evening News · Monday 4 January 1915 · page 1

THe [?] following appeal [?] particular effort of Church [?] the [?]…

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Invasion of Hungary. Russian Advance. Eight Army Corps Moving. Quarrels Among Turks. French Active in West Heavy Artillery Fire. 153rd Day of War

The Sun · Monday 4 January 1915 · page 1

An official report from Petrograd states that the Russians have successfully crossed the Carparthians and invaded Hungary. Eight…

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Condition of Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 6

BROKEN HILL, Monday.--The people who were wounded during the attack by Cool Mahomet and Abdulla, on Friday, were reported this afternoon to be all, doing well with the…

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The War

Evening News · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 4

There is a little substance in the peace talk in [?]cial [?] New York, for it probably represents a view that the Kiser and the German war part would be likely to hold…

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War Rates

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 5

The Sydney Marine Underwriters und Salvage Association has received a cable message to the effect that war rates, outward or homeward, any route, are now 1 per cent…

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War Rates

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 5
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Marine Underwriters Association of Victoria notifies that, in accordance with cable advices received from the Institute of London Underwriters, the…

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"War Chest."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 10

The committee of the "War Chest" Fund have a deal campaign on hand for the coming three weeks. The firs: is for the provision of motor ambulances to they supplied to the Expeditionary Forces as soon as…

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War Notes. the War of Trenches

The Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 5

"Still digging" might be the report any day from the western theatre of war. Bulletins from Paris or from the British front mostly record exchanges of cannonade, or advances…

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War and Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 11

The war drags along slowly with no apparent signs of its being over for a long time. This does not load to activity in the overseas wheat trade, although it should…

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War Problems. Who Pays War Risks, Duty, Etc.?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 11

"Paper Morcbant" writes:- Sir,—before war broke out I bought from a local firm, a shipment of paper to arrive, at a price delivered to store. The paper having Just arrived, I…

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Progress of the War

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 5

Up to the present voluntary recruiting has provided all the troops that Lord Kitchener could find accommodation and instruction for; but now that the million…

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The World at War

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 8

All the world should be at war against out-of-date and unhygienic ideas, whether affecting the nation as a whole or the home as a unit. In this sense every…

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New Zealand. War Programme

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 10

The Defence Department has issued an extiemely interesting and important statement regarding the reinforcement drafts which are to be despatched by New Zealand during the…

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Neltzsche and the war

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 12

You hear Nietzsche being blamed for the war. Nietzsche has said many bard things—most of what be said was hard;—and some very foolish; so…

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War and the Birds

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 5

That the long-continued cannonading in Belgium and Northern France is to some extent diverting the normal autumnal flow of bird life from the colder regious of Europe seems…

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