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The wars & local soldiers, 1910

4 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Storyette. War!

The Blue Mountain Echo · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 14

It was 4.30 p.m. on a hot sultry afternoon in December, 1927. The very microbe of war seemed to be in the air. The citizens of Katoomba, mostly women, were gathered together about…

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War Clouds

The Blue Mountain Echo · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 8

Writing to the Defence Department in England in 1882, General G. G. Gordon ("Chinese Gordon") said :—"That, as far as England was concerned, she…

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Items of Interest Tolstoy on War

The Blue Mountain Echo · Saturday 16 July 1910 · page 2

Navies are nob necessary to people who desire to be at peace, but only to people who wish to rob and murder. For robbery logically ends in murder. All this building of…

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STORYETTE. The Tragedy of War. Founded on Fact

The Blue Mountain Echo · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 14

"Dear dear, this is very dreadful," said mother one morning, in the early spring of 1900, as we three sat together—my step sister Kathleen, my sister Tina and myself—on the…

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