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Article : 443 wordsThe rich American women resident in England—most of them married to Englishmen—are doing good work for the wounded. At the commencement of the ...
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Article : 103 wordsAt the civic reception tendered to Mr. Fisher, Australian Prime Minister, when he arrived at Auckland, New Zealand, ...
Article : 277 wordsSir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, in the course of an interview, at Cairo, Egypt, sent the following message to the motherland: "As an ...
Article : 129 wordsA thrilling story of hardships undergone by the British in capturing the principal parts of the Cameroons, in Equatorial West Africa, is told by the ...
Article : 99 wordsSpeaking at the Royal Colonial Institute a few days ago, Earl Grey, who recently visited Australia, said that a German had informed him that deep in the ...
Article : 79 wordsAt New York last week, Madame Vander Velde, wife of the Belgian Minister in the United States, addressed a large meeting and pleaded for funds on behalf ...
Article : 83 wordsThe physical standard of men in the Australian expeditionary force is exceptionally high, according to an officer at the Victoria Barracks, Sydney, who has seen ...
Article : 184 wordsThe road between Holdsworthy and Liverpool, N.S.W., along which troops are continually moving to and from the military camp, was found one recent ...
Article : 145 wordsWhen the Germans occupied Lodz, the first and second classes of Russian militiamen not serving with the colors were ordered to report themselves on ...
Article : 65 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" can scarcely find words to express its detestation of Britain. In a recent article, it stated that "A land with such piratical egotism ...
Article : 141 wordsAt in the West, so on the eastern side of Africa, fighting it being carried on under most difficult conditions. The correspondent of the London "Times" ...
Article : 137 wordsOne of the exciting incidents of the voyage of the Australian Expeditionary Force to Egypt is thus described by a trooper in a letter to his friends:—"The ...
Article : 172 wordsAn appeal has come to Australia for fresh or preserved fruit for distribution among the warships of the North Sea fleet. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Home "Messagero" states that when the Austrians were re-occupying Czernowitz they were guilty of terrible cruelties to those alleged to be in favor ...
Article : 84 wordsGeneral discontent has existed among the employees of the Electrolytic and Refining Company at Port Kembla, N.S.W., over the continued employment ...
Article : 119 wordsA Russian non-commissioned officer who escaped from the Germans at Lodz narrates that he and two officers and thirty men were imprisoned in a stable ...
Article : 94 wordsSome time ago it was announced that there were 300 vacancies in King Edward's Horse, and that applications would be received from Australians ...
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Article : 112 words"The bugle sounded the alarm, the crew rushed up, and lights were flashed everywhere. A nurse ran up on deck. The bugle sounded the advance, and the ...
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Article : 167 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Roseby, at the united intercessory service for peace, in the Pitt Street Congregational Church, Sydney, on Tuesday, said that there was a ...
Article : 170 wordsThe following cable has been received from Lord Rothschild, chairman of the British Red Cross Society, by Lady Helen Munro. Ferguson:—"The British ...
Article : 148 wordsThe sentence of five years' penal servitude passed upon Gaudin by the Samoan military administration has created a sensation in New Zealand. ...
Article : 119 wordsDuring recent fighting the Allies' Red Cross workers picked up 700 German wounded, and removed them to a field hospital, which the Germans shelled, ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Defence Department has accepted tenders from Australian firms for the manufacture of 317 miles of khaki of varying weights per yard at a cost of ...
Article : 70 wordsPrivate O'Sullivan, of the 5th Dragoons, has signed a statement that he and seven others were taken prisoners at Ypres early one morning. They were ...
Article : 65 wordsBy this act the Kaiser will assume sovereign rights within the country, the neutrality of which he pledged his word to maintain, and the annexation of which ...
Article : 196 wordsThe New Zealand Minister for Defence (Mr. Allen), addressing the Maoris in their camp near Auckland, congratulated them upon the highly creditable manner ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Federal Government has had under consideration the matter of the disturbance that took place in Melbourne recently when a number of Chinese were ...
Article : 148 wordsThe "Magdeburger Zertung, in a flight of lofty eloquence, ventures upon prophecy, as follows:— "The day of those deluded people is ...
Article : 75 wordsThe death is announced of Driver Charles Robert Hobill, of the Australian Army Service Corps, at present in Egypt, on December 20. His next of kin is his ...
Article : 141 wordsNot only in France and Belgium is the German displaying the innate savagery of his nature. Harrowing sales of his brutality come from the districts through ...
Article : 137 wordsAn official cable, has been received in Melbourne giving particulars of the condition of the men that were wounded on H.M.A.S. Sydney during the action ...
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The Farmer and Settler (Sydney, NSW : 1906 - 1955), Thu 31 Dec 1914, Page 1
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