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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1871

13 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

The Wounded Soldiers at Arras

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 4

I never was able to realise until I went among the different hospitals at Arras, how terrible a thing war is. In every street I met men stamped with the disaster of war…

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The War the Positions of the Bell Gerents at Christmas

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 4

The [?] IS great with which General Molike moves his armies throughout the French territory, is [?] “men” at a chessboard : be bids Manu[?] hold Faidherae and the…

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Contrabrand of War

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 4 March 1871 · page 4

The Government has legally determined, the Law Times says, that arms and ammunition are not contrabrand, and that it is lawful for our manufacturers to supply them to the…

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The Game of Brag in War Time

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 18 March 1871 · page 4

It was the babbling that drove the Grand Army mad. It was the infinite babble that brought about Chaos. Of golden silence there was none ; of silvery speech little ; it…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. News to February 21st, Peace Restored. Paris to Pay 200,000,000 of Francs. France to cede Alsace, Lorraine, Metz, Belfort, and Pondicherry, and Transfer 21 Ships of War

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 18 March 1871 · page 4

Peace has been restored between France and Russia, 11 52 a.m. London, Feb, 21, 10 a.m.—After several…

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Prisoners of War

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 8 April 1871 · page 4

For many against was the costomof belligerents to massacre their prisoners either from religious motives or in the mere wantueces of cruelty. We may see on the mural…

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The Romane of War [?]

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 8 April 1871 · page 4

No and think all the terrible meaning [?] the conventional phrases usual by the military historian, or even by the [?] [?] of the newspaper. The…

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Christmas in the German Camp—christmas Trees and Dancing Soldiers

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 8 April 1871 · page 4

Every effort had been made by the German arrives to make this Christmas a merry one, and the relatives and friends of officers and soldiers did all they could so promote the…

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War and Christianity. (From the New York Tribune )

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 4

“ Is Christianity a bloody religion ?” This is a question which was recently propounded by one of our correspondents, who, to his griet and apparent astonishment, had of and doctors…

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The Mail News. War Notes

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 29 April 1871 · page 4

General Troche was a man of plans, and never could alter the details of these plans to suit a change of circumstances. A correspondent says :— “What his grand plan was, by…

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The War Indemnity

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 4

A carious calculation has been made by a Belgian writer. It is Worth reading, not merely as a curiosity among mathematical problems, but as a meant of enabling the mind…

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Civil War in France

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 10 June 1871 · page 4

When the mail left, on 21st April, severe fighting and cannonading were increased around Paris. The Common was making extensive preparations for resistance…

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Appalling Disaster. Explosion on States Island Ferry Boat Over 150 Killed and Wounded. New York. July 30th

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 4

The Stolen Island ferryboat Westfield, at 1.20 p.m. to-day, when in the slip at Whitehall, and crowded with passengers, exploded her boiler. The concussion was terrific,…

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