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Article : 59 wordsThe new Army Service Bill empowers the authorities to re-examine all men who have been rejected or discharged, and also men exempted from foreign ...
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Article : 196 wordsDetails of the sinking of the British hospital ship Asturias, 12,002 tons, by a German submarine, show that two torpedoes struck the vessel at ...
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Article : 167 wordsW. E. Baxter, Jackson Siding. NEW SOUTH WALES. Corporal G. Richardson, Glenrowe; H. M. Murray, Orange; A. Millard, Surry ...
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Article : 134 wordsThe Official Prees Bureau states that the transport Tyndarous, with a battalion of the Middlesex Regiment on board, [?]truck a mine on February 9 ...
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Article : 103 wordsOwing to the disclosures made at the War Council inquiry in connection with the [?]aid made on the private room of Mr. Theodore Cook, the editor ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 30 Mar 1917, Page 5
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