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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1887

16 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

The War Cloud London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1887 · page 3

THE Austrian diplomats declare that Germany and Austria have exhausted their efforts to preserve peace with Russia. The Czar's intended departure from St…

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The War strength or Europe

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 5 March 1887 · page 3

THE following table, copied from the Daily News, shows, first, the number of men hold in permanent readiness for war; and, second, the number of men that could be called…

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War Material for N. S. Wales

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 5 March 1887 · page 2

SINCE the present Government have come into power they have received advices to the effect that a very large quantity of war material has been shipped, and is being…

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A Roamance of the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1887 · page 4

A RECENT copy of an Indiana paper contains the following paragraph:- Married.—On November 27, by the Rev. Dr. Turnbull, George A. Dawson, of Louisiana, to Miss…

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Terrible Incident of the American War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1887 · page 4

DUBING the tumult and excitement of the late war one of the saddest incidents that occurred was the marriage and death of Annie, eldest daughter of Governor Pickons…

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England's Unreadiness for War. Some Ugly Facts. Australia Better Prepared. "Auglo-Australian" in European Mail

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 31 May 1887 · page 4

MANY colonists whom I have lately met have been greatly exercised in their minds by the remarkable and startling paper which holds the place of honour in the current number…

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Startling Episode of the RussoTurkish War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1887 · page 4

THE Paris correspondent of the Times says that the following gires an absolutely authentic account of an unknown episode of the Turco-Russian war, and may be read in…

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Belgium's Part in the Next War. An Interview with General Brialmont

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1887 · page 4

GENEBAI BRIALMONT, aide-de-camp to the King of the Belgians, and "Inspector General of Engineering and Fortifications" in Belgium, is generally recognised, since…

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The Franco-German War Scare of 1875. Prince Bismarck's Reply to General Le Flo

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 6

IN reply to the disclosures of General Flo, in the Figaro, Prince Bismarck has published in his organ (the North German Gazette) some diplomatic notes of Prince…

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Women Against War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 23 July 1887 · page 3

MADAME GRIESS-TRAUT, of Paris, vice-president of the Association for the Improvement of the Condition of Women, is circulating a "Declaration of Women against War,"…

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French Workmen's Ideas on War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1887 · page 6

A CURIOUS book with the ominous title of "Paris Santera" ("Paris will be blown up") has been published in Strasburg (says a correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph.) It is written by one…

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Railway Accident in America. 163 persons killed, and 100 wounded

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 3

LONDON, SATURDAY.—A railway disaster has occurred in America, owing to the burning of a bridge over the river Illinois. The drivers of two engines, drawing a train containing…

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Loss of Life in the American War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1887 · page 2

A WASHINGTON writer contrasting the loss by death of the Union soldiers during the rebellion with the mortality of other wars, says—"Reports show that the Northern and…

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The French and German War Departments

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1887 · page 4

IN Germany, the Emperor is Commander-in-Chief of the army, Truth tells us. Under him are two co-ordinate authorities, the War Minister and the Chief of the General Staff…

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England's War Strength

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 4 October 1887 · page 4

BAKER PASHA'S views of army reorganization, as expressed in the current Blackwood, may be briefly stated. He says that an army not ready for offensive action is a…

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The French War-office Scandals

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 26 November 1887 · page 6

A CABLE message from London to the San Francisco Call from Edmund Tates, of the World, under date October 10, gives the following as the origin and explanation of the…

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