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Detailed lists, results, guides : 282 wordsThe newspapers at Saloniks declares that the Allies are preparing a new base in the Balkans. Further Salonika telegrams state that British, French, and Greek troops are ...
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Advertising : 89 wordsTo-day's market quotations:-- Bailey 5s to 6s, maize 5s to 5s 6d, oats 2s 3d to 3s 3d, onions £4 to £9 10s, potatoes £14 to £18, eggs 14d. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe scarlet fever epidemic still prevails, although the authorities are meeting with considerable success in their efforts to combat it. There have been a good many ...
Article : 352 wordsWriting on September 8 from the 3rd General Hospital, Wandsworth, London, Sergt. Keith Martyn says:--"My jaw is still swollen, but am getting on fine. This week ...
Article : 698 wordsAn officer now fighting in Gallipoli has written to Mrs. Mow, of Inch-street, Lithgow in reply to an inquiry as to how her son, Pte. Mow, was killed. He says:-- "I am at ...
Article : 429 wordsThere were no new developments in respect to the beer strike. Many of the hotels are without beer. A fair number of barmaids have come out, ...
Article : 91 wordsLord Kitchener, after a conference with the French Premier and General Joffre, resumed his journey to the near East. Assurances were given of complete accord on the ...
Article : 44 wordsA British-Italian expeditionary force will probably concentrate at Valona, whence it could reach Monastir in 10 days. Monastir is the capital of Macedonia, European ...
Article : 40 wordsThe 105th casualty list contains the information that Pte. G. D. Davidson, Oberon, of the 7th Light Horse, is at present at Malta; Pte. A. J. Mullins, of the 20th Batt., ...
Article : 48 wordsA German paper declares that the Allies are preparing on a great scale for combined operations in the Balkans, also that Russians are concentrating immense forces in ...
Article : 44 wordsThe postponement of the referendum has given great and almost general satisfaction. It will strengthen the position of the Hughes Government, though at first sight it looks ...
Article : 503 wordsMr. J. Colley, local collector for this fund, furnishes the following particulars:-- £ s d Amount already acknowledged. 206 5 1 ...
Article : 378 wordsMr. A. E. Stephenson, Vale of Clwydd, has received the following wire from Colonel Luscombe:--"Regret to inform you that No. 1122, Pte. N. Stephenson, 13th battalion, is ...
Article : 83 wordsMeetings are being held throughout Roumania, favoring intervention on behalf of the Allies. ...
Article : 25 wordsGeorge Herford pleaded not guilty to a charge of having used indecent language in Bridge-street on the 5th instant. To a charge of having been drunk at the same ...
Article : 118 wordsThe new pastor of the Baptist Church was welcomed in an informal way by the members of the church and congregation on Saturday night. Despite the fact of the function being ...
Article : 311 wordsThe Servian Treasury has arrived at Salonika under Greek escort. It will probably be sent to France. ...
Article : 32 wordsPte. Louis Mourant, wounded severely at the Dardanelles, has been invalided home and should reach Mount Victoria towards the end of the present month. "Lou's" welcome ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Battle of Krivola was a most sanguinary one. The Bulgarians, after a long artillery preparation, rushed to the assault, but encountered the full blast of the French ...
Article : 43 wordsThe annual festival and installation in connection with Lithgow Robert Burns Royal Arch Chapter No. 17, took place at the Masonic Temple, Mort-street, on Wednesday ...
Article : 269 wordsGeorge Walker was charged with having obstructed a police officer whilst in the execution of his duty on November 5. He pleaded not guilty. ...
Article : 362 wordsThe French are gaining ground in various directions, and at Portrino they captured dominating positions. They also took other positions in the same region. Fierce fighting ...
Article : 68 wordsWriting to his parents at Portland on August 18 from Cottenera, Malta, Pte. E. E. Haigh says:-- "I was in the firing line on August 13 when a shrapnel shell went off ...
Article : 417 wordsThe Austro-German advance in the north of Servia seems arrested. The Germans claim that the Austrians threw back the Serbs at Gracina and forced the river ...
Article : 50 wordsDuring the week-end 10 men offered their services at the local recruiting office. Of these, eight were accepted, and two rejected, making the total to date 807. There are at ...
Article : 59 wordsIt is no exaggeration to say that the postal service is in a state of chaos. In regard to newspapers, complaints of delays and non-deliveries are monotonously frequent. On ...
Article : 171 wordsA Salonika telegram declares that British and French troops are arriving uninterruptedly en route to Servia. Great precautions have been taken to prevent the exact ...
Article : 58 wordsDuring the past fortnight full time has been put in at all the local collieries except Oakey Park. Eleven shifts were worked at the Hermitage and Lithgow Valley ...
Article : 104 wordsFive Russian warships periodically bombard ports on the Bulgarian coast, thus dominating the Black Sea. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. W. Haigh, of Portland, writing to the "Mercury," states that Pte. "Geordie" Doig, mentioned in the letter from Pte. F. E. Haigh as slightly wounded in the eye, has ...
Article : 63 wordsBerlin newspapers claim that the Eastern war is as good as won and that Constantinople will be the next to be reached. ...
Article : 33 wordsA meeting of the Recruiting Association will be held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday next, at 7.30 p.m. Relma Studies from Newtown are open ...
Article : 843 wordsBoth continuation classes. domestic and junior technical, closed for the year recently. Mr. S. H. Smith, inspector of continuation schools, visited Lithgow last week, when the ...
Article : 134 words"Three Weeks," Elinor Glyn's famous novel, was filmed at the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday night, and attracted an immense house. This picture is a story of love and ...
Article : 357 wordsPte. L. G. Mackenzie, son of Inspector Mackenzie, of Bathurst, and formerly employed at the Lithgow Government savings Bank, is optimistic in regard to the speedy and ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Bulgarians are shelling the railway north of Ghevghaeli. ...
Article : 15 wordsIn a letter from Gaba Tope, to a friend at Tarana, Lieut. W. Taylor, of the 19th Batt., says:--"Few people realise what this war is--fewer still realise the fighting powers of ...
Article : 433 wordsThe general situation on the Riga and Dvinsk front is most satisfactory. The German determination to capture Dvinsk now soems more hopeless than ever. Already the ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is officially announced in Paris that enemy submarines succeeded in passing Gibraltar last week. They have been operating in the Mediterranean. Three streamers have ...
Article : 49 wordsPte. Cecil Dukes, who prior to enlisting was a popular railway employee at Eskbank, has written an interesting letter to his relatives in Penrith, of which town he was a resident ...
Article : 195 wordsEarl Kitchener has left London on an important mission to the near eastern theatre of war. It is understood that the delicate task of ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Mon 8 Nov 1915, Page 2
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