The War
There was righting to the north of the Loire and around Paris, from the 28th November to the 7th December. General Ducrot made a serile with 150,000 men,…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1871
7 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
Late War News
Balloon news from Paris 22nd December, announe the recommencement of offensive operations. On the 21st December it was reported that the Prussians had not entered Tours, but returned to Blois…
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A great sortie was made form Paris early in December, mainly towards the Southrest and South, in the direction of Fountainblean road and Champigny, involving batties the most sanguinary, the French behaving galiantiy…
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MANY persons have doubtless read with amazement of the enormous sum of money that France has to pay Prussia as a war indemnity. But very few, we think, have taken the trouble…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dreadful Orange and Catholic Riots at New York. 400 Persons Killed and Wounded
THE principal item of news from the Eastern States, is the great riot that occurred in the city of New York, on the 12th July. It had been known for several days previous to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrival of the English Mail. Via California. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.) Explosion on Staten Island Ferry Boat.—over 150 Killed and Wounded
NEW YORK, JULY 30TH.—The Staten Island ferryboat Westfield, at twenty minutes past one p.m. to-day, when in the slip at Whitehall, and crowded with passengers, exploded her boiler. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Effects of the War Upon German Railways. Berlin, September 9Th
The consequences of the war have been so disastrous upon railways that Germany, which heretofore experienced but few railway accidents, new bids fair to out-rival the most prolific countries in producing…
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