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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
17,789 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250
Another week has gone by with no recorded event on any of the fighting fronts calling for comment. Absolutely no major operations have taken place either on the Western or on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pending Australia's decision, it is impossible to fix a date for the War Conference. There is still a doubt whether South Africa will be able to send a delegate. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Berlin Tageblatt's "distinguished neutral" begins his articles on England with an account of London. He says that London's "material life" shows…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →I am indebted to a neutral traveller on his way back from Vienna for some information about life in that city during recent months (says the Lausanne correspondent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Allies' joint peace note presented to American Ambassador by French Government. It states that the Allies refuse to consider Germany's peace proposals, which are empty and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great schemes for after the war should bo thought out and planned now, says a writer in tho Daily Chronicle. The Prime Minister has recurved a deputation on a proposal, considered for many years in this country, long since accepted and now ardently desired by France, about which a decision should…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →It looks as if the Empire generally is going into 1917 with a full determination to win the war and make an end of it. This must, at any rate, be a year of acts. On the Allies' side, so…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Carpent[?]er, interviewed for the "Weekly Dispatch," denies his intentions of fighting either Willard or Darcy. He is a soldier of France so long as any German remains…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It is hard to conceive a more utterly thankless job than the headship of the British Navy in this war. We have an enemy who is keenly military in all his aims; completely unscrupulous in his methods; extraordinarily skilful in seeking his objects without having to fight for them. The submarine—and…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The Daily Chronicle's correspondent, telegraphing from Syra, in order to avoid the Greek censorship, says that he sees no abatement of the Greek Royalists reign of terror. The reservists, he says, continue to arrest political opponents in large…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The new telegraphic code for the use of soldiers on service and their friends at this end of the wire is now in use. The system of code cables was introduced by the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following, are extracts from a letter written by an Englishwoman in London. This lady has visited Australia an several occasions, where she has many relatives…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The State Government has resumed enough land already to provide for returned soldiers who want areas for grazing or general farming. The Minister for Lands, Mr. Ashford, says…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In last issue of this paper there appeared the story of the disappearance of ex-Sergt.-Major Leader, with a copy of a letter, in which he asked that care be taken of his boy. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lieut.-Colonel David McConaghy, C.M.G., who has been honored by the King with the D.S.O., is not yet 30 years of age. He left Australia with the first troops as Lieutenant…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Liverpool and Cabr-Vale branches of the Voluntary Workers' Associations have combined to hold a huge demonstration and sports on January 26 at the local Show Ground. There…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The secretary of the United Clerks' Union or the Australian Clerks' Association as it is now called, recently wrote to the Prime Minister complaining that returned soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Voluntary Workers' Association has done much excellent work, but nothing so far better than this Australian Soldiers' Gift Book, which proves anew that some of the best…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A few weeks after the Battle of Mons I met in a train a wounded British soldier, one of the heroes of that victory. He told me of the battle in his own way; he was full of it. He told me of the swarms of German infantry, of the murderous machine-gun fire, of the long and desperate fighting, which' left our men…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The following letter has been received by the general secretary of the Australian Clerks' Association from the secretary to the Prime Minister…
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