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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
126 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 7
While the tribesmen on our Indian frontier are shooting down our soldiers with the latest up-to-date arms of precision made in Birmingham, we are scarcely justified in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SEVERAL years ago M. Blewitz, Paris representative of the London TIMES and one of the best informed men in Europe on international diplomacy, declared that the signal for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A good deal of perturbation bas been manifested in mercantile circles in Melbourne and Sydney on account of the circulation of war rumors. One or two material…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No person can read the remarks of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and those of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, appearing in lost week's cablegrams, without feeling that the condition of Britain's relations with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At a meeting of the East of Scotland Tactical Society, Colonel Browne, commanding the 21st Regimental District, gave a lecture on "Nelson's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Ask how the weather is now, and if there is anything in sight. We may as well rise and get freshened up a little." The speaker was a man in an undress naval…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ominous-looking cloud that darkened our Eastern horizon with a daily deepening gloom has lifted, and the international barometer indicates that the threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN tho event of a clash of arms between England and tho allied Powers the position of Australia would be particularly unpleasant. Being n portion of tho British Empire the first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, who spoke in Edinburgh recently, devoted his entire speech to submitting a reply…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. George C. Craig, of Sydney, a well known authority on defence, writes to the Maitland Mercury:—If we meet a foreign and modern invader, the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The expression of Lord Chatham, one of the greatest Englishmen that ever lived, should sink deep into the heart and mind of every Britishman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sister Gray, the senior sister in the Army Nursing Service, is as enthusiastic as Rudyard Kipling on the subject of Tommy Atkins. "Twenty-three years in the service makes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By mail further nows in to hand relative to the blowing up of the Haine. The United States armoured cruiser Maine was blown up in the harbour of Havana about 10 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE protest entered by the Shark Creek team against the prize being awarded to Donnelly's team in the tug-o-war on St. Patrick's Day, on grounds stated in our last issue, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, THURSDAY.—Speaking at the annual banquet of the Royal Colonial Institute, the Duke of Cambridge said Great Britain ought not to take a retrograde…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE tug-o'-war between the Shark Creek team and Donnelly's team did not take place on Saturday as arranged. Some of the members of Donnelly's team declined to proceed with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "Nineteenth Century" has a characteristically vigorous article by Mr. Fred. Greenwood entitled "England at War." He traces our present isolation, with all its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, SUNDAY. — The United States Senate, after a prolonged sitting, adopted an amendment in favour of recognising the Republic in Cuba by a majority of 51 to 37;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An American squadron has left Hampton Roads, Virginia, under sealed orders. It is composed of the Brooklyn Texas, Columbia, Massachussets and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, TUESDAY.—President M'Kinley has signed the ultimatum, and war will commence on Saturday morning, unless Spain concedes all America's demands…
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