Books for Soldiers
The calling for books and periodicals a few months ago on behalf of the returned soldiers in hospitals and homes met with such ready and sympathetic…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1927
3,787 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 190
Unexampled the Scourge of Steel and Fire Somme's Red Fury How Tanks Came Into the Field of War (No .8) (Copyright)
In a survey of the Battle of the Somme, Mr. Churchill notes the "most improvident disclosure" of the tanks, and his own protest to Mr. Asquith, then Prime Minister. He concludes the article with a eulogy of Kitchener's Army,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman Soldiers 16 Wounded in Fight Vancouver
At Managua, in Nicaragua, a battalion of women was formed, and, led by a 20-year-old girl, they assisted the Conservative forces recently in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Echoes
"MADEMOISELLE from Armentieres," the British-Gaumont monument to the women of France, is now in its fourth week at the Crystal Palace Theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Striking War Articles
Mr. Winston Churchill's striking new series of articles on the Great War will be continued to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"I'll Shoot You" He Did---three Times Barmaid Wounded Brisbane
Ida Hutchinson, aged 23, a barmaid, was shot three times by an intruder whom she found in her room when she returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Police War on Art Magazines New York
The Atlanta police department has declared war on so-called "art" magazines, and hundreds of those have been confiscated from the news stands and burned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cycling War Corry Defies L. V. W. Unregistered Riding Melbourne
The first stage of the cycling war in Melbourne began to-night, when Frank Corry, of New South Wales, the motorpace champion follower, rode on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Day
THE annual Soldiers' Day Appeal is to be launched on Friday, March 4, and arrangements are well in hand…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Smart Now Chinese Soldiers GOOSE-STEP!
WITH Russian commanding officers, and drill instructors who have had their military training in the German style, the Chinese soldier has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bowral's Little War Is a Policeman's Lot a Happy One? Mr. Mitchell Steps in The Sergeant and the Constable, and Why the Two Aren't Friends
The Bowral police war is over. The select urban township has been divided into two camps, each glaring at and talking about the other, for some time past. The cause was to be found in a quarrel with sensational trimmings, and allegations between the local police sergeant and the constable. Bowral forgot that it was a tourist resort long enough to indulge fully in the heated argument…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Boy Wounded Rifle Range Accident
R. A. Grotton (12), of Waratah St., Leachhardt, was shot in the right thigh ta the Leichhardt Drill Hall yesterday. It is stated that the boy was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Shooting Affray. In a Hotel. Barmaid Wounded. Brisbane
A sensational shooting affray took place at the Stock Exchange Hotel, Queen-street, city, early on Saturday evening, as a result of which Ida Hutchinson, 23, a barmaid, is in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Woman Shot Wounded Three Times Hotel Sensation Brisbane
When a man was surprised in a bedroom at the Stock Exchange Hotel, Brisbane, on Saturday, four shots were fired, as a result of which Miss Ida…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Merchant Murdered Shots in Cairo Shops Two Others Wounded Cairo
Attracted by a crown outside Bercovitz's jeweller's show, from where a revolver shot had been heard, a detective saw an Egyptian attempting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Fight U.S.A. European Capital Magnates Conferring Industrial War Likely London
PLANS were completed yesterday for series of great international conference, which are expected to lead to the organisation of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Problems Groping Towards United Command French Armies Demoralised (No. 7) Mr. Churchill here discusses the experiment of General Nivelle, and the results of his popularity with Mr. Lloyd George and the British War Cabinet
General Joffre's plan for the campaign of 1917 was simple. It was to be a continuation of the Battle of the Somme, with only the shortest…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War Lords Clash Chang and Wu Attack on Hankow Propaganda Among British Troops Discovery at Shanghai Shanghai
DESPITE a strict censorship," the Chinese Press is hinting at a serious clash developing between Chang-Tso-lin, the Manchurian War…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labour's Hostility to Returned Soldiers. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The New South Wales Hansard (4th February) shows that the acting Opposition Whip (Major M. L. Jarvie) asked the Premier to direct that absence in the A.I.F. should…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gift of £40,000. Melbourne University. in Memory of Soldier Son. Melbourne
Intimating his intention of devoting the sum of £40,000 towards a memorial to his son, Captain Robert Blackywood Ritchie, M.C., who was killed in the Great War, a letter has…
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