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The wars & local soldiers, 1916

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Hope to Meet Again Greetings to Turks How the Australians Left Anzac Greece Wriggling Athens Reports Changed Attitude 518th Day of the War

The Sun · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 1

The last man to leave Anzac in the wonderful withdrawal was General Birdwood. The retiring troops swept out the trenches before their departure, and left notes asking the Turks to maintain the same…

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How the Task Was Accomplished. Detailed Narrative. Anzac Bay, Dec. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 11

Three miles away from me, across a grey, silky sea, lies the dark shape of the land. Eight months ago, just as the first lemon-grey of dawn was breaking over that long,…

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How Can the War Stop

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 8

Under this heading the following editorial article was published in the New York "Evening Journal," one of the Hearst papers, a combine which is…

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War Notes. Reported Fresh Landings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 11

It is reported in this morning's cables that three new Allied landings have taken place in the Near East-two in the Balkans, and one on an island off the southern coast…

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Adela Pankhurst and the War

The International Socialist · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 3

I have been filled with quite a glow of enthusiasm, of joy and appreciation of Adela Pankhurst. In the capitalist rags I read of her recent lecture in Melbourne and…

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Some Reflections on the War

The Methodist · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 11

Tramp! tramp! tramp! On they come, the young, the strong, the stalwart, the flower of mankind, for nothing less will satisfy the god of war. But when it…

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Anzac-suvla. Narratives of the Withdrawal. Enemy Hoodwinked. Turks Shell Abandoned Hills

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 9

LONDON, Friday.--Eye-witnesses of the Anznc evacuation state that the calmness of the weather counted for an immense part in the success of the undertaking. When the order was received from Home which set the evacuation machinery, in motion the moon was well advanced, and operations were facilitated…

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The Withdrawal. From Anzac and Suvla. Last Job Ashore. London, Friday Evening

Evening News · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 1

[?] official correspondent at [?] his story of the [?] was the [?]ng of the…

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Comments on War. Abraham Lincoln During the American Civil War Re Slavery, 1865

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 1

"Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Each looked for an…

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The War. Comforts for the Troops

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 11

A very good record has been established by the committee of No. 2 Army Service Carps, 201 h Company, of which Mrs. K. I. Bourne is hon. secretary. Five cases were…

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Parramatta and Hills District War Amelioration Fund

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 11

A raid was made in Sydney on Xmas. Five by young ladies headed by Mesdames Tobin and B. Taylor, who sold Christmas bush in the interest of the above funds…

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The Mirror of Labor. The War Census

The Mirror of Australia · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 18

The result of the war census in New Zealand, taken on similar lines to the official appeal to men of military age now being conducted in the…

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Prayer and the War. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 9

Sir,--I venture to remind your many readers that there is a valuable and interesting precedent for the day of prayer in the whole Empire fixed for the coming Sunday. It is the "Day…

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War Profits. What the British Tax May Yield

The World's News · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 18

EXACTLY what the tax of one half on all war profits in Great Britain will yield is, of course, impossible to say. That the amount will run into many millions may be gathered…

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Worse than War How Dreadful Scourges Were Beaten

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 8

"Miraculous is tho only proper adjective to apply to the work being done by American doctors and nurses in Serbia,"…

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How Germany Makes War. the Great General Staff

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 6

There has teen a sudden outburst of assertions and hints about the functions of the General Staff (recently wrote "Tho Times" correspondents formerly in Berlin). One Radical…

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Again, Abraham Lincoln After the Civil War in America

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 1

"Volunteering, the unprincipled dodge of cowardly politicians, ground up the choicest seed-corn of a nations, consumed…

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King Alfonso's View. "After This War, Prepare for Another."

The World's News · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 28

THE Argentine historian, Roberto Levilier, now in Switzerland, has given an interesting account of a recent conversation with the King of Spain, which took place at Madrid…

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This Anzac Was Terrified But London Traffic, Not the 'Terrible Turk' Did the Trick for Him British Press Appreciation

The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 11

There are at the present time something like 10,000 soldiers from Australia and New Zealand in this country, invalided here from service on the peninsula of Gallipoli. I wonder how many…

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Winter in the War Zone Warm Clothing More Than Necessary

The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 2

In the Balkain Peninsula itself the Winter, except in favored localities, is very severe. The cold in the wild tangle of elevated mountains which forms the entire interior is intense, and…

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