The Samoan War
The Samoan group consists of 12 islands having an area of 1701 square miles, lying in the Pacific Ocean between North America and Australia. The population numbers 36,000, of…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1899
211 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 11
The following are extracts from Mackenzie Bell's Pictures of Travel, and other Poems. a Word for War
War has its use; sometimes it keeps alive Those qualities that make a nation thrive; In certain minds it checks the love of self; It teaches self-control, and scorn of pelf…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in Cuba
the long-expected report by general Miles on the Spanish-American was Published recently. General Miles interpolates very little matter of his own, the report chictly consisting of official…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A War of Freights
COMPETITION on the coasting steamship service continues. Rates have been out since January 16 to a figure which must be distinctly unprofitable to the companies…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War in Manila
A desperate engagement precipitated by the insurgents has taken place in the Philippines. The forces of Major- General Otis, the American land commandant, were recently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Outcast's Gratitude. a Tale of the Franco-prussian War
The young Due de Hardimont was in Aix, in Savoy, for the treatment of his famous mare, Perichole, used up since the cold she had taken at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Soldier of Fortune. (From "The Australasian.")
As long ago as 1877 there died at Jummu, in Kashmir, a veteran soldier of fortune, Colonel Alexander Gardner, the record of whose stormy,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coming Afghan War
ADVICES from Cabul any that the illness of the Ameer of Afghanistan is so serious that his death is imminent. His condition is being watched with keen interest in London and Calcutta…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queen and the Young soldier
A Cardiff correspondent states that Mrs. Penrose, of Moira-street, Cardiff, has got the free discharge of her son from the army by direct…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Arbitration Versus War
Last week a largely-attended meeting was held in Sydney under the auspices of the Womanhood Sufferage League. The principal business of the meeting was a paper by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cheating a Horror of War
Far more likely to accomplish peace, by creating a detestation of war, are men like the famous Russian painter, M. Verestchagin. This great man is a follower, in a way, of his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War in the Philipines. Another American Victory. London
THE United States army made a general advance against the Filipinos from Manila on Saturday, and in the face of a stubborn resistance, carried the trenches at the point of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War at Manila. Further Particulars. London
THE New York correspondent of the Times says the fighting capacity of the Filipinos surprises everybody, and they are winning the respect of the Americans…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War in Samoa. (By Telegraph.)
SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.--A cable from Auckland this morning reports that fighting continues in Samoa. 100 British and American blue-jackets and 150…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War in Samoa. More Fighting. Sydney
The latest from Samoa is that the British and American warships were shelling the camps aud villages of Mataafa's men. The United States is sending another warship…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War in Samoa. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
SPEAKING at the opening of the Geisha Fair today, Cardinal Moran, in referring to the Samoan trouble, said he did not call it warfare, but the deliberate murder…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in Samoa. Statement by Cardinal Moran. Sydney
SPEAKING at the opening of the Geisha Fair to-day, Cardinal Moran, in referring to the Samoan trouble, said he did not call it warfare, but the deliberate murder of natives. The Turkish…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War and Love
WAR and love are strange compeers ; War sheds blood, and Love sheds tears. War has swords, and Love has darts ; War breaks heads and Love breaks hearts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boer War in Sight
I am never very far out in the deeper study of foreign politics and military probabilities. I was right with my conjectures with regard to the fact that Russia would have all…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton Tuesdays and Saturdays. Tuesday, June 27Th, 1899. the Cloud Over the Tkansvaal. Imminence of War
The long-gathering war cloud lowering over the Transvaal seems at last-about to break, and to renew the shedding of blood in that distracted land. Should this last extremity…
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