Citizen Soldiers
The commencement of the second decade of the twentieth century will be memorable in the history of Australia for the Defence Act, which came into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1911
366 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 19
War Office Experiments Aeroplaning at Sea. Washington. U.S.A.
The War Department of the United States is taking renewed interest in the science of flying, and is likely to assume control of the San Francisco meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shooting Affray. Milk-carter Wounded. Sydney
At Newtown to-day, Peter McGrath, 24, a French polisher, met Granville Butler, 30, a milk sartor, and bad blood quarrelled. McGrath fired a revolver shot which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cables. War Against Anarchists Police Sharply Criticised. Englishmen Made to Appear Ridiculous. Stricter Laws to Be Adopted. London
A storm of criticism of the police department has been raised by the newspapers. The failure of hundreds of policemen to capture a small band of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Soldiers' Pensions. Washington (U.S.A.)
A Bill has passed the Federal House granting a pension to every surviving soldier who served in the civil war between the Northern and Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Cloud. Pessimistic German Newspaper. a Friendly Understanding Necessary. Berlin
The pessimistic feeling regarding the European outlook is reflected by a well known newspaper which says: "Nowhere do we sec any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sensation in Chamber of Deputies. M. Briand Fired At. Another Minister Wounded. Paris
M. Gisolme, formerly a law clerk at Bayonne, fired two shots from the gallery of the Chamber of Deputies at M. Briand, the French Premier. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cables. Wild Scenes in Paris Premier Briand Fired Upon. Another Deputy Wounded. the Assailant a Mad Professor. Paris
The third attempt in three months to assassinate the French Premier, M. Briand, was made yesterday under circumstances of an exciting nature at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nilda. a Tale of the German Invasion of 1912. Chapter Xxviii. the War in England Moves to a Sudden Conclusion
England was distressed, but never subdued, by the presence of nearly 400,000 German troops upon its territory. As the narrative in previous chapters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flushing Fortifications. Mutterings of War. London, Friday afternoon
The "Pall-Mall Gazette" says it is difficult to believe that the Dutch Government will hold out against the protests at the defence scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways and War
Giving evidence before the Decentralisation Commission yesterday Major-General Head. Chief of the Australian section of the Imperial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Station Tragedy One Killed—another Wounded. Narrandera
News of a murder has come to hand from Billembah Station, near Narrandera. It is supposed that a boy employed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cronje Dead One of the Boer War Heroes
The death is announced of Piet Cronje, the Boer General, who commanded the Western Army of the South African Republic, in the late…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cowardice During the Boer War the Military Libel Case. Verdict for Defendant. London, Friday night
The action brought by ex-Sergeant-Major Edmondson, of the Middlesex Yeomanry, aganist Mr. Leopold Amery, for libel in an article in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia's War Strength. on the Austro-german Borders. London, Monday afternoon
The correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette" states that Russia has now nearly 1100 battalions of infantry at full war strength on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conflicts Between People and Soldiery. Dear Food and High Rents. Rome
Conflicts between the people and the soldiery occurred in half-a-dozen cities to-day as the result of mass meetings to protest against the exhorbitant price…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Panama Canal. in Time of War. New York
Mr. John Miles, speaking at the Economic Club's banquet, pointed out that in the event of war the Panama Canal would be, if possible, the first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Amongst Ammunition. Three Soldiers Killed. London
Three soldiers were killed and 7000 rifles and 10,000 cartridges were destroyed as the result of a fire yesterday at the ammunition barracks at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Cloud. Russia and China London, Friday
Russia’s relations with China are strained to breaking point. To-day Russia notified the powers of her intention to hold a military…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Cloud. Washington
Official sympathy is with China, and it is not Improbable that the United States will intervene to prevent the bullying of China by Russia while the…
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