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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
21,398 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250
The Times correspondent in Paris says that increasing attention is being paid in France to the question of trade relations between the Allies. The chambers of commerce have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Corporal Grafton Lees writes from Lemnos to his father, Mr. S. E. Lees, of Clarence street, under date Oct. 1:— Until one day last week the old Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The London Daily Telegraph's New York correspondent says that the press there is unanimous in predicting that Germany is nearer defeat now than Great Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE following intensely interesting account of the doings of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli just before the closing scenes was written…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Thanks to the Zeppelin raids, a bad dream has just cost Lady Mary Adelaide Poe one guinea. A policeman was passing the Burlington Hotel, Eastbourne, when he noted bright…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →After more than a year of war, one of the principal lessons learned is the vast importance of invention. At the outset, creative industry was lost sight of in the swift rush to pour out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ful speech, conceived in the very best spirit of the Upper Hosue. As an example of aristocratic refinement of style and delicacy of iropy Lord Crewe's speech is a gem. As a defence it…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →In bringing my notes on the war to a con-clusion at the end of 1915, I would urge my readers to realise that the outlook is far fram being gloomy. The unavoidable set-back to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →From Valona comes the report that Essad Pasha, the ruler of Albania, has declared war against Austria and Bulgaria. Essad Pasha has 20,000 troops at his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Those who are of opinion that, after the war, things will be as before and that relations with Germany will re-commence on the ante-war footing, will read with interest the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →There has recently been an extraordinary recrudescence of hatred throughout what we used to think was the civilised world. The active and patent stock of hatred in humanity…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →In another column appears a statement by one of the labor leaders of England to the effect that he has done with "duke-baiting"—one of the pastimes of the proletariat. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Older children, clever boys and girls who think for themselves, need to be told not what they can understand, but what they cannot understand, nor we cither. I want them to get…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →At the head, of each iron bed hung the nurse's chart and a few words of "history." These histories had been taken down as the wounded came in, after their muddy uniforms…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →E. Richards, of Grafton, is out with a suggested innovation in politics, and he has to be credited with originality of conception. He, writes:—"In order to secure the due…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—Having read in numerous papers accounts of the trench periscope invented by Sergeant W. C. B. Beech, A.I.F., I fail to see any account of the military authorities or the public…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The above illustration gives a vivid idea of the fighting that has been in progress on the Western front of late. It should be noted how the bomb-thrower carries his deadly missiles. Referring to, one such charge recently, a German writer in the "Berliner Tageblatt" says:—"Then whitish fog banks began to creep slowly nearer. The landscape consists of flat meadows and fields, and In these months a mist hangs over morning and evening. Thus it happens that our men at first thought the approaching whitish bank of vapor was mist, but very soon they knew what wac the matter. It was a gas attack, and the order was Issued, put on the gas-masks. The bank of fog passed over our trenches; then came a low bank of smoke creeping towards us, black-grey; then, again, another bank of gas, some ten minutes behind the first. Altogether three or…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →On Friday night a large number of soldiers did a good deal of damage in a few shops and hotels, and generally took possession of Perth. A lot of trouble was expected last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mrs. J. Saunders, of Surry Hills, Sydney, is one of the women of our country who have given liberally to the cause of Peace. Her son and his father are in the firing-line, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A private of the 2nd Battalion, A.I.F., Liverpool Camp, was cleaning a revolver last night, when the weapon exploded and a bullet lodged in his left arm. He was admitted to…
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