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

The wars & local soldiers, 1886

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

The Bathurst Free Press "Magna eat veritas at prosvalebit." Thursday, April 29, 1886. Is it War ?

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 29 April 1886 · page 2

AMONG the last cablegrams from England was one to the effect that Russia is massing troops in the Crimea, and that considerable uneasiness has been caused…

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Socialist Riots in America. More Than 80 Persons Killed and Wounded. Chicago, May 5

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 1 July 1886 · page 3

THIS city has at last reaped the consequences of the Persistent folly in allowing the Socialist so much license.For years a small body of them mostly Germans, have been permitted to…

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Famous War Chargers

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 6 July 1886 · page 1

In an article commending the people of Virginia for providing a home for the war horse of Stonewall Jackson till it, died a few weeks ago at the age of 30 the…

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Soldiers Smoking in the Streets

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 July 1886 · page 3

By order of his Royal Highness, the Field-Marshall Commanding-in-Chief, the prohibition against soldiers smoking in the streets has just been removed; and the following clause has…

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The War Cloud. London, August 23

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 26 August 1886 · page 3

Now that the first shock of surprise occasioned by the startling intelligence from Bulgaria is over, it is seen that everything connected with the Bulgarian coup d'efat…

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Latest Cablegrams. the War Cloud. the Irish Question. London, August 25

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 August 1886 · page 3

There is great excitement here in consequence of news having been received to the effect that the movements of Russian troops in the direction of the Bulgarian frontier…

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Germany's War Spirit

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 7 October 1886 · page 4

It becomes depressing in Germany. [?]aysnn observer, to see every day and hour the signs of military life, and to think of what those signs really mean,…

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The Duel of the French Minister of War with Senator Laveinty

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 12 October 1886 · page 3

In consequence of the language made use of by M. de Lavointy in the Senate (Sec our Parisian Letter) M. Boulanger, Minister of War, sent his seconds to the fount or…

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Continental Correspondent. Varieties. the "War Library" in Berlin

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 November 1886 · page 2

ONE of the sights of Berlin—a sight more known perhaps to strangers than to natives— is the Kriegsbibliothek, which contains all known works printed during and since the…

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The War Cloud. Starting News! The Rupture Imminent. London, November 12

The Bathurst Post · Wednesday 15 December 1886 · page 6

THE European crisis is fast approaching the dreaded culmination. The opinion held by some of the highest state officials in England is that an appeal to arms is inevitable, and that the terrible conflict…

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