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The wars & local soldiers, 1917

17,789 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 250

War Scenes on the Western Front -- French Official Pictures

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 22

German prisoners marching to the rear of the French line. Early morning in a French Transport Camp. (French official photos. by courtesy of the Consul-General of France, Sydney.)…

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Athletics Gossip From All Parts of the War Zone

Referee · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 10

Licut.-Co!. C. H. Elliott (Tasmanian A.A.A.) and Major H. A. Nugent (East Melbourne H.) have been awarded the D.S.O. I have mentioned the receipt of cards and…

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London Financial Cables. War Loan Active. London, Jan. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 13

The War Loan is active. There have been 108 markings at between £98/10/and £98/17/6. The 3½ per cent. War Loan has risen to £96/5/ on the belief that it may receive…

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The Great World War From Day to Day. the Bid for Peace German Cries of Rage Ruthless War Against Britain

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

The Allies reply to the German peace suggestion has goaded the Kaiser and his gramophone press into a storm of fury. In an order to his troops, his…

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Late War News. Moldavian Battle. Enemy Repulsed. Rome, Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 11

Advices from Petrograd state that there was a battle on the Moldavian-Wallachian front, and the Austro-Germans were repulsed…

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Melbourne Football Position of St. Kilda : Players in the War

Referee · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 13

The St. Kilda Club before the war had a membership roll of 4000 and a revenue of £2000. But the committee unwisely joined the executives of the other clubs that left…

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Looking Ahead. Work After the War. Demobilisation Plans. London, Tuesday Night

Evening News · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 5

Mr. Hodge, Minister for Labor, made some important statements in the course of an interview to-day. He said that the Government was Rapidly…

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Patriotic Carpentier First Get War Over Effort to Meet Les Darcy

Referee · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 8

The following interesting cablegram was published in last Sunday's Sydney Sun : "London, Saturday, Carpentier, interviewed for the Weekly Dispatch, denies his intentions…

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Home from the War Stories From Flanders and Suez. Modest Heroes

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

Most of the invalided soldiers that were landed at Sydney last week had participated in the lighting in Flanders or in the neighborhood of the Suex Canal, and…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, January 10, 1917. to Win the War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 10

Professor Macintyre in our issue to-day protests against the formation of any league with a political complexion in aid or recruiting. In a statement which we…

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A New German Disease. said to be Due to the War Food

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 4

A new disease is reported to be prev[?] in Hamburg, Germany. It is akin to cancer and is believed to have been caused, and the naw war foods…

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To Win the War. a New Party Formed. Mr. Hughes's Invitation to Australians

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Prime Minister at a meeting at the Town Hall to-night launched his new national organisation or "win the war" party, which is ostensibly…

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National Party. for the War. Prime Minister's Speech. New Body Formed. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 11

At the invitation of the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) a meeting vas held in the Melbourne Town Hall this evening for the purpose of forming a national organisation…

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America the Neutral Enemy of All and Friend of None. President Wilson's War Policy

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 1

The peacemaker is commonly supposed to receive and top merit, hard blows from both combatants and the President of the United Stated must be painfully conscious…

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N.Z. Sport a Review of the Year in Sport and War Wellington, January 4

Referee · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 15

At this period of the year one is apt to review the doings of the past 12 months. But there is very little to chronicle concerning sport in the Dominion during the year. Naturally…

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Lawn Tennis Carnival the Country Placers Successful Opening of Their Matches at Double Bay Courts : War Notes

Referee · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 11

Though their numbers are diminished by the absence at the front of many players so that the actual teams competing are only about one-fourth of those that came down in the days…

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The War (Continued from Page 1) Hindenburg's Task Forecast of 1917 Campaign Russia Will Be the Anvil London, Tuesday Night

The Sun · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 5

Colonel Repington, military critic of "The Times" writes:--"Though the conditions have changed for the 1917 campaign through the Allies' now greatly superior numbers…

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Funds Not Locked Up. Gallipoli Soldiers Experience. Amelioration Committee S Good Work

Evening News · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 7

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Jelly-Backed Politicians a Soldier's Views on the Referendum. a WAsTE of Money

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 4

The recent [?] (Mr. Hughes) in the House of Representatives that a majority of the men abroad voted in favor of conscription was…

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Public Affairs From the Rural Standpoint Soldier Settlement Special Privileges for Our Fighters. All Classes Will Profit

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 1

Selfishness is not exclusively a city vice—us the Referendum "No" vote showed—and there are farmers and farmers; sons that b[?]rudge the soldiers the…

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