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The wars & local soldiers, 1908

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The Balkan Crisis the Fight Independence. Will It Be Settled with Out War ? London

Leader · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 2

The outlook in the [?] [?] There was a great anti-Austrian demonstration against [?] in…

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A Heroine of the Franco Prussian War

Leader · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 6

An application at Le Mans, in France, for a licence to open a tobacco burogu has brought to public notice a forgotten war heroine,…

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The World War Cloud Getting Darker Servian Reservists Called Out London, Friday evening

National Advocate · Monday 12 October 1908 · page 3

The Servian reservists have been ordered to join the colors on Sunday. Austrian troops are guarding the…

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Gathering War Clouds Massacre of Christians Austria Blocks Servia London

National Advocate · Wednesday 21 October 1908 · page 3

There are persistent reports that Kurd regulars have massacred the Christians at the Viranshehr and Kastamuni vilayets, Anis Minor. They…

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Welcome Home Social

Leader · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 5

The Revd. Isaac Bugg, the pastor of the Orange Baptist Church, who has been attending the Australasian Baptist Convention and tho New South…

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The Problem of the Conference,. Will There Be War After All? London, Saturday

Leader · Monday 26 October 1908 · page 2

The “London Times” correspondent at Belgrade states that the [?]reducable minimum of Servia’s demand is the autonomy of Bosnia and…

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England And Germany Is War a Certainty ? What an English Authority Says. . SYDNEY

National Advocate · Monday 26 October 1908 · page 3

An English authority, writing privately to a Sydney friend, says that people in well informed circles regard an attack by Germany upon England as a certainty, and…

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A War Fund Defenceless Australia the Rich Man's Opportunity. Mere Property Insurance

National Advocate · Wednesday 28 October 1908 · page 2

The dangers of a European war into which Great Britain will be drawn are daily increasing. Germany seems resolved to make herself the…

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War Friction Lessened Turkey's Terms Bulgaria Amenable to Reason London

National Advocate · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 3

Turkey proposes that Bulgaria shall assume nine millions steeling of the Ottoman debt, besides paying all the arrears of the East Roumelian tribute,…

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Austria Raises War Funds London

National Advocate · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 3

M. Liaptcheff, the Bulgarian envoy to Stamboul, states that Bulgaria is prepared to negotiate for the purchase of its section of the Oriental Railway…

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The Balkans Situation. War Believed Inevitable. Austria’s Action Denounced. London

Leader · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 3

Believing that war with Servia inevitable, Austria is secretly hurryin on its military preparations. She is sending reinforcements to the…

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King's Birthday Guild Hall Banquet Prime Minister's Great Speech War Clouds Will Disperse Without Storm. London

National Advocate · Wednesday 11 November 1908 · page 3

King Edward's birthday was enthusiastically celebrated at all the military stations, chief capitals, and colonies. The principal feature of the…

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Joy at War Averted LONDON

National Advocate · Friday 13 November 1908 · page 3

The ' Times' says that Germany and France must feel greatly relieved at the probable settlement of the awful possibilities which threatened to follow…

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The World A Recrudesence of the War Fever LONDON

National Advocate · Wednesday 18 November 1908 · page 3

Owing to the movements of Servian and Montenegrin troops towards the Novibazar, the Porte has decided to take military measures in the districts…

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A War Relic

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 2

MR. MERVYN SEABORN, when at the war in South Africa with the Imperial Bushman, received a wound in his right arm, which bled profusely…

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The Kaiser's Interview Soul of the Nation Wounded Fremantle

National Advocate · Friday 27 November 1908 · page 2

Dealing with the Kaiser's remarkable interview published in the London 'Daily Telegraph,' the Pan-German and Anglophobe Essen daily,…

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The Cost of War Would War Cost More Than a Strong Navy?

Leader · Saturday 28 November 1908 · page 4

About this time every year the navy becomes the subject of keen discussion in Parliament and the country. The question is entirely one of money…

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Will There Be War Where Is Austria Drifting ? Feeling in Vienna Germany's Desire for Peace London

National Advocate · Wednesday 9 December 1908 · page 3

The 'Times' correspondent at Vienna, reports that there is a growing feeling that Austria is drifting aimlessly bat steadily towards war, whereto all…

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A Welcome Home Function at Sandy Creek

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 17 December 1908 · page 15

On Friday night last there was a large gathering at Sandy Creek to extend a welcome home to Mr. A. Dorman, who, a few days ago, returned…

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Venezuela Declares War LONDON

National Advocate · Saturday 19 December 1908 · page 4

The Washington State Department has been informed that Venezuela has declared war owing to the Dutch blockade…

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