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Article : 235 wordsOur First Contingent soon settled down to shipboard life, and on some of the troopships started a newspaper. The first editions of "The Kangaroo," ...
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Article : 182 wordsBehold the father in his easy chair Conning of the war news while the meal grows cool. His wife's voice summons him: "This ...
Article : 630 wordsNothing has distressed the French people—those fighting and those at home—more than the insufficiency of the postal service; but now and then ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Earl of Kingston, an officer in the Irish Guards, says:— "We had a bad night last night in the trenches, as we are only 800 yards ...
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Article : 204 wordsPte. Hannah, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, referring to the crossing of the Aisne under the German guns, says:— ...
Article : 259 wordsThe following verse, by Lillian Stone, N.S.V., was published in "The Kangaroo," the daily paper printed on the troopship Afric:— ...
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Article : 100 wordsWar Correspondent William Maxwell writes from the "front": "It can never be said of the official news doled out in France that it errs ...
Article : 86 wordsMax Linder, probably the moist famous cinematograph artist in the world. has been killed in action at the battle of the Aisne. ...
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West Gippsland Gazette (Warragul, Vic. : 1898 - 1930), Tue 1 Dec 1914, Page 3
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