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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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Home From the War Over 400 Soldiers Return Welcome at Anzac Buffet

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 6

Many more returned soldiers -- 327 for New South Wales, and 120 for Queensland -- reached Sydney this morning. They were welcomed home by thousands of friends and…

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The War

Evening News · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 4

Early last year, in forecasting the difficulties that would confront the Germans in 1918 owing to the lack of adequate food supplies, we laid stress on the exhaustion of the fertility…

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Insurance War Rates

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 2

The Marine Underwriters' Association has announced that the way rates of insurance on vessels travelling across the Atlantic between the…

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Exit "Anzac." Australians in Separate Command. New Zealanders Join British

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- The Anzac Corps as a military unit has ceased to exist, the Australian troops having been concentrated in one corps to be known as tho Australian Army Corps and the New Zealanders, who were…

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Scottish Women's War Hospitals

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The fund for the Scottish Women's War Hospitals passed the £5000 limit this morning, and now stands at £5002 1s 2d. This amount does not include any of the profits of the…

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War and Unskilled Labor

The Australian Worker · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 14

1. What social values and standards, are likely to be endangered by war-time conditions? Socialists are in the habit of saying…

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Australian War Casualties. Latest Aggregates

The Australian Worker · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 14

A summary of Australian war casualties issued oh December 22 shows:—Dead 40,851; wounded, 112,271; sick, 64,554; missing 1900; prisoners, 3028; other…

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Bitter Civil War in Progress

Evening News · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 1

[?] officers from [?] have joined General [?] ground that [?]…

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War Purchases London, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 1

Reuter's correspondent in Paris states that an inter-Ally council, to discuss war purchases and finance, has been opened. It is being attended by Mr. Bonar Law…

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Cheerful Wounded "Fall In, the Flying Corps." South Coast of England, Nov. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 7

"Fall in, the Flying Corps!" Twice a day a genial sergeant-major—quite a rara avis—Issues this order. A visitor who expected to see aeronauts "spring to it," and…

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The War Widow a German Novel

People · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 3

A friend sends us the following striking extracts from a serial story which is at this time appearing' in the "Neue Zuercher Zeitung," a German-Swiss Liberal newspaper that has…

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War and Insanity Fewer Mental Cases

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 3

During the year, states a report by the Health Department, the excess of admissions over deaths and discharges at the mental hospitals was 145, the…

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Russian Situation. Civil War in Siberia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 7

Despatches from Harbin received in Tokio state that fierce fighting has occurred in Irkutsk between the Bolshevik regulars and Cadets and Cossacks. The Bolsheviks…

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War Profiteering. Increases in Australian Food Prices

The Australian Worker · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 4

Figures issued by the Commonwealth Statistician show that during November the aggregate prices of 42 food commodities, as compared with those prevailing in…

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War Notes. Enemy Air Raids in Italy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 7

The Italian semi-official message states that in the air raide on Padua the enemy is doliborately seeking to wreck the most precious treasures of religious art. White we…

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Solving War Problems. What Sociologists May Do

The Australian Worker · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 15

On June 1, 1917, the following letter was sent to over one hundred sociologists in the U.S.A.:—My dear Colleague,—Will you join with…

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Progress of the War Opinions and Prospects

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 4

The cabled expressions of opinion by prominent men as to the prospect for the coming year…

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Insurance and War Risks. Australian polices Hold Good

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 2

Goulburn.—You are not the only one in doubt as to whether your life policy is good now that you are going to the front with the expeditionary force, I…

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Co-operative Advances in England During the War

The Australian Worker · Thursday 3 January 1918 · page 4

The following article written by Henry Evans, a delegate of the Wholesale Co—operative Society of England, is highly informative as showing the progress of…

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