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

The wars & local soldiers, 1888

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

Suicide of a Soldier in India

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 5

Another and case of suicide (says the Bombay Gazette) among tho soldiers is reported from Rawalpindi. A man of tho West Riding Regiment put the muzzle of his rifle into his mouth…

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Cablegrams. the War Cloud

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 23 February 1888 · page 2

LONDON, February 20.—The Paris Temps announces that the vessels of the French naval squadron are being actively equipped for war. The Roumanian Parliament has been opened…

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The War Cloud

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 2

THE legislative dissensions and complications which have taken place throughout Europe recently, and, more or less, during the past two or three years, are viewed by many as…

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If War Broke Out

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1888 · page 4

THE VALICA SERBIA, a Russian journal published at Belgrade, contains an article by a Servian staff officer on the future war between Russia and Austria-Hungry. The…

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The War Scare

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1888 · page 2

THE sadden breakage, on the 29th ultimo of both cables to Java, seems to have caused quite a military panic in Melbourne and Adelaide, whilst more or less concern was…

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Strange Story of a Soldier

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 14 July 1888 · page 4

THE strange case of Hugh Thompson has just passed through the Pension Office says the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. It is a remarkable story. Thompson left home a boy of 18 to…

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