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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1902

250 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 13 of 13

Soldiers Poisoned

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 7 October 1902 · page 5

A telegram from Johannesburg, dated August 30, to the "Natal Witness" of September 1, says: Yesterday evening, about 5.30, a gentlemanly dressed man was…

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Short Story. Only the Brave Deserve the Fair. A Story of the War lu South Africa

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 2

"Tm sure he cares for you, Lucy." "Oh, don't be so foolish, Maud. The very idea! As if I had no higher ambition than to marry my father's farm hand."…

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Welcome Home

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 11 October 1902 · page 2

Written expressly for the 'Examiner." "Absentminded" sang the Poet, of our Soldiers; But at Duty's call ye quickly sprang to arms; None was absent bodied in the day of danger:…

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Canada's Treatment of Her Returned Soldiers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 5

Mrs. Edward Kearney, of Grafton, is in receipt of a letter from her brother, who is attached to the Royal Canadian Dragoons. He was present with the Canadian…

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The France-German War

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 24 October 1902 · page 2

The battle of Sedan brought to a conclusion the first phase or a most remarkable campaign ; and, quite apart from political and dynastic results, it is…

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A Terrible Engine of War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1902 · page 2

The United States Navy Department is reported to have secured the rights of a new time fuse which does not explode the shell until it has…

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War Honors

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 7 November 1902 · page 4

THE London GAZETTE of 1st inst. contains a long list of honors granted on account of services rendered daring the late war in South Africa. Amongst them are the following:—…

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In Love and War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 November 1902 · page 2

The "Daily Graphic" obtains from a correspondent at Sebastopol an interesting bear story. A huge bear approached near to a village and carried oil a young child. The…

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How the German Soldier Camps Out

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 November 1902 · page 3

Mr. C. Duncan Cross writes in "Cassell's Magazine' on "A Fighting Machine at Work," and thus describes the German huts:—It is, of course, impossible to get…

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Miss Hobhouse and the Boer War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 December 1902 · page 5

Miss Emily Hobhouse, in her inaugural address at the Young Scot's Society, at Leith, took as the subject of her lecture "The Boer Women—Through the War and…

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Cablegrams. War ia Venezuela,—British and German Ultimatum —Hostilities Commenced. London, Tuesday

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 5

The foreign legations have left the Venezuela capital and embarked on warships. Germany claims the immediate payment of £70,000, representing tho losses by German subjects during…

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Women in War

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 26 December 1902 · page 2

Fighting women are no novelty, either in the pages of the mythological legend or in the st[?]rrng volumes of history, for they have existed from time…

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