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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1870

4 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Arrival of the English Mail. War Between France and Prussia

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1870 · page 3

THE P. and O. Company's steamer Geelong with the English mails, was telegraphed from Adelaide at noon on Sunday. The European intelligence is of the most startling…

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Arrival of the English Mail. Via Suez. [By Electric Telegraph.] [From Our Own Correspondent.] Sydney, Monday, 8 a m. French Army at Metz Surrendered. Emperor Napoleon Taken Prisoner of War. Bank of France Suspended Specie Payment. French Generals M'mahon, Canrobert, Frossard, Lamiralt, and Marshal Bazaine Wounded. Immense Losses on Both Sides. Two Prussian Generals Killed and Two Wounded. the French Senate Abolished. Peaceful Revolutions Have Occurred in Paris. Emperor Napoleon Deposed, and a Republic Proclaimed. Parisians Determined to Bury Their Bodies in the Ashes of Paris, Rather Than Surrender. the Empress Eugenie Has Fled From Paris. Mazzini Has Been Taken Prisoner at Palermo. Strasbourg Invested by 50,000 Germans—the City in Ruins—population Starving, But the French Still Holding Out. the French People Refuse to Listen to Mediation. Seine and Maine Upon the Prussians Advancing, Were Burnt and Destroyed by the French. War Still Raging with Fearful Carnage

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1870 · page 3

THE P. and O. Company's steamer Malta, with the English mails and European telegraphic stews to the 2nd of September, was telegraphed from Adelaide to Sydney at 3 p.m. on Saturday…

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The War. (From the European Mail.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 October 1870 · page 4

THE war has produced a plentiful crop of patriotic ongs in both German and French, translated for the enefit of Young England. The old song by Arndt, Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland? " comes out…

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The War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 27 December 1870 · page 3

Everybody is surprised at the number of men surrendered, which would have made Bazainc's lost sorti[?], if skilfully planned, nearly successful. Opinions are divided on the treachery of Bazaine by intriguing…

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