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

The wars & local soldiers, 1904

1,369 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 19 of 69

Russo-Japanese War. LONDON

Leader · Monday 21 March 1904 · page 2

The Russians require 70.000 tons of coal at Fort Arthur, but an reluctant to pay famine and blockade prices. The British shippers hesitate…

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The War. Coal Famine at Port Arthur. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 21 March 1904 · page 2

The Russians require 75,000 tons of coal at Port Arthur, but are reluctant to pay the famine price now demanded. The price has greatly advanced…

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Latest intelligence Japanese Advance. Russia Enlists Servians. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 21 March 1904 · page 2

It is reported that the Japanese Infantry have occupied Ping Yang. A few Japanese cavalry are visible from the roofs of the houses…

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The War. Latest Cables. London

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

Japanese are holding An[?]u, 150 miles north of Seoul, and their scouts and those of the Russians are separated only by a river. The Japanese are still 70 miles…

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The War. the Recent Engagement. Russia's Desperate Bravery. Destructive Japanese Shells. London

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

During the fight at Port Arthur the tents of the Russians were close enough to permit them to throw an explosive on the bridge of a Japanese…

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The War. Situation at Pout Arthur Closely Blockaded. Graphic Story of the Torpedo-boat Fight. Desperate Bravery of the Russians. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

Japanese naval officers admit that Port Arthur is "a terribly hard but to crack." There are elaborate barbed wire…

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Wounded Russians. Proceeding to Liao Yang. London

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 2

Reports have reached Niuchwang to the effect that the Japanese have crossed Tatung Pass and are now forty miles from Hai-cheng…

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War Correspondent's Dilemma

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 2

Mr. W. H. Donald, war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, thus describes some of the difficulties which methods correspondents at the front:—…

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Russo-Japanese War. LONDON

Leader · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 3

[?] St. Petersburg correspondent says the Czar goes to the front in August Reports have reached Niuchwang…

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American Civil War Pensions. LONDON, Monday Afternoon

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 3

President Roosevelt has decreed that pensions shall be given to every soldier over 62 years of age who participated in the Civil War. The pension…

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The War. Port Arthur. Reported Capture. Attack by Land Force. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 2

The Daily Telegraph states this morning that a Tokio newspaper published on Monday last, and a, highly circumstantial account of the capture…

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The War. Capture of Port Arthur. Attack by Land and Sea. Report Unconfirmed. Big Fight on the Yalu. Six Hundred Russian Casualties. Czar Going to the Front. London

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 2

The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Tokio states that a paper published on Monday gives a highly circumstantial account of the capture of Port Arthur by the Japanese. It states that a division of troops landed at Liaotung…

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The War. Port Arthur Shelled. Fifty Soldiers Killed. London

National Advocate · Thursday 24 March 1904 · page 2

The "Daily Chronicle" correspondent at Newchang reports that the Japanese shelled Port Arthur on the 11th for four hours, dismantling two guns…

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Russo-Japanese War. LONDON, [?]

Leader · Thursday 24 March 1904 · page 3

M Katoka, a Japanese merchant, has been secretly buried alive a Tientsin for acting as a spy for Russia…

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The War of Wars

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 24 March 1904 · page 15

This twentieth century must grow somewhat older before it is possible to appreciate in their true proportion the events of the nineteenth century…

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The War. Bombarding Fort Arthur. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 24 March 1904 · page 3

A telegram' from Chefoo states that daring an hour's bombardment of Fort Arthur by the Japanese on Sunday, the 18th inst., five Europeans and…

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Ordered to India. Insubordinate Soldiers. London, Tuesday Afternoon

National Advocate · Thursday 24 March 1904 · page 3

The first battalion of Royal Welsh Fusiliers entrained at Pretoria for India. Many of the men objected to going, and at Howick, Natal, they…

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War Talk

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 3

Apart from the news of actual operations in the East the cables have, during the past week or two, been charged with a stream of talk embodying the views of…

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Russo-Japanese War. LONDON

Leader · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 2

The Russians at Port Arthur have recovered fifteen Japanese torpedoes, the Japanese having forgotten to with draw the safety pegs…

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Lessons of the War. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 3

Admiral Bit Cyprian Bridge, who is retiring from the command of tho British Squadron on tho China Station, has told an interviewer in Yokohama…

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