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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1877

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The Feeling in London on the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1877 · page 4

THE insications are unmistakable that the opinions of the British ruling classes has become more favourable to taking the risks of war than it was a month ago. This change is…

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Arrival of the English Mail. (Via San Francisco.) (From the Harald.) the Russo-turkish War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1877 · page 3

BEFORE the end of July the Russian had concentrated 100,000 troops in front of Plevna, and completed the investment of Rustchuk.They then bombarded Silistria and fired the town on July 31st…

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The Russo-turkish War the Capture of Nicopolis

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1877 · page 3

A BRILLIANT and interesting spectacle was witnessed on July 15, the theatre of nation being the pretty little town of Nicopolis. It appears that after the 9th Corps had crossed…

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The War in the East [By Submarine Telegraph] Severe Fighting on the Bulgine

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1877 · page 4

THE Turks have given Kalliaronowski over to the Flilorum. This is twenty miles up. At the same time, Lord Derby wishes it to be distinctly understood…

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The Man Excited Over the War News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 2 October 1877 · page 4

MR WHITE, a Detroiter of middle age, visited this office the other day to find a war map and to have a chat about the European situations, and it wasn't ten minutes before his enthusiasm…

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The Russo-turkish War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 3

CONSTANTINOPLE AUGUST 11.— The Minister For Foreigu Afairs has addressed the following telegram to-day to the Ottoman representatives abroad:—"Telegram from Sulieman Pasha,…

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What the War Promises for Russia

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 3

IT is necessary, perhaps, to explain (observes the Pall Mall Budget of July 20) what the Russian position is. It is this—and she was wellwarned of it at the beginning; either from the…

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War Telegrams

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 October 1877 · page 4

THE telegram published in the Daily News on Monday morning describing the conflict in the Shipka Pass (writes the Birmingham Daily Mail)is one of the finest descriptive reports…

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An Incident of the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 20 November 1877 · page 3

ADMIRAL Hobart Pasha (says a correspondent) is back at Constantinople, conferring on future naval operations. He tells me that last week his flagship, the Athar Tevfik, just missed taking a very valuable…

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Scenes at the Seat of War. Horrible Massacre of Christians at Kavarna

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 24 November 1877 · page 4

" KAVARNA, distant one hour from Baltjik and six hours from Varna, is a town inhabited by from 400 to 500 families, all of them Greek, with the exception of a few…

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The War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 27 November 1877 · page 4

THE Straggle at Plevna —The Assault on the Turkish Positions—Terrible Scene: in the Grivieia Redoubt—12,500 Russians and Roumanians killed and wounded—…

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Misleading Telegrams of the War to London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 27 November 1877 · page 4

A correspondent of the Times of Septenber 26, directs attention to the telegrams that are published by journals which profess to have the earliest news so frequently, as grossly…

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The Russo-turkish War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 4 December 1877 · page 3

GENNERAL GOURK[?] gained a decisive victory over the Turks at Dubrik and Teltc[?]0, capturing both places, and commanding all the approaches to Plevna, thus shutting Osman Pasha completely in. A Russian…

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Turning the War to Account

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 4 December 1877 · page 4

WE all know, or are supposed to know, the virtues of the moral pockethandkerechief. Combined with [?]nnel jackets for the natives of tropical countries, as an agency for inculeating sound doctrine and handy…

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The War. November 26

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 December 1877 · page 3

It is rumoured in Paris that England has sent an ultimatum to Russia. England has intimated to Taekey that she will refuse to recognise the blockade of the Euxine, unless…

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