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The wars & local soldiers, 1904

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Weary War Scribes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1904 · page 4

We learn that the war correspondents of papers now in Tokio, Japan, are weary with waiting for permission to proceed to the front. They are also closely shadowed…

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Current Comments. War Rumours

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1904 · page 4

When the cables are cut, and things become a bit hazy, then the unreliable old war prophet looms up ahead. After beating Russia, and sinking her flect, he…

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Late War Cables. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1904 · page 5

Russia intends to arm her volunteer fleet of transports, now lying at Odessa, on the Black Sea, outside the Strait of Dardanelles, and use them for the conveyance…

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Russo-Japanese War. London

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1904 · page 2

THE EXPRESS states that Vice-Admiral Togo has requisitioned 28 useless steamers to be stripped except navigating machinery, and be sent in…

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Russo-japanese War. Getting Into Position

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1904 · page 5

To obscure the plans of a General on the defence or in the attack, to know the exact hostile position, and how to deliver the attack when the position is…

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Horrors of War. A Japanese View—Neutral Powers Blamed

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1904 · page 2

The war bomb has exploded at last [?] What would I personally not have given to prevent this saddest of all explosions? As a Japanese, of course, I put more…

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Russo-Japanese War. 1,25,000 Japanese Troops in Korea. London

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1904 · page 1

A cable from Seoul reports that 55 Japanese transports landed a large force and 60 guns at Chinhampo. There are now 125,000 Japanese…

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Who's Who at the War

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 April 1904 · page 7

Last issue we gave a list of the principal military Japanese personages at the war. Below will be found those of…

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Russo-jap. War. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 April 1904 · page 5

Japanese scouts entered Wiju at the mouth of the Yalu river on the fourth instant. The Russians have apparently…

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Russo-Japanese War. London

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 8 April 1904 · page 4

JAPANESE scouts entered Wiju, at the mouth of the Yalu river, on the fourth instant. The Russians have apparently…

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The Eastern War. SYDNEY

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 8 April 1904 · page 5

RUSSIA has decided to arm her volunteer fleet and transports at Odessa outside the Dardanelles and use them to convey troops. They also intend…

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Russo-japanese War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 5

The Russian victory on the middle Yalu is a myth. It was a frontier skirmish, in which the Russians were driven back, only that and nothing more and the…

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Late War Cables. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 5

Japanese accounts state that there are 260,000 Japanese troops in motion, besides 60,000. troops in garrison. It is believed that Japan intends to operate…

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Japanese Cross the Yalu River. Russia Economising for War. a Press Steamer Pursued. (From Our Sydney Representative.) London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 5

The "Daily Chronicle" reports that the Japanese troops advancing from Widju swam the yalu River, and landed on the Manchurian side, 10 miles north of the…

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Russo=jap. War. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 11 April 1904 · page 3

Unofficial advices from St. Petersburg indicate a Russian reverse on the Yalu, one brigade sustaining serious losses…

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Russo-japanese War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 April 1904 · page 5

"Balderdash' is not a term to use in the just, honest, and practical criticism of the cause pf war. It is rather a cowardly, expression to use in the face of one…

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Russo-Japanese War. London

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1904 · page 3

ADVICES received at Tokio report that Japanese transports, with stores, have entered the estuary of the Yalu, and effected a landing on the Korean…

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Late War Cables. (From Our Sydney Editor.); London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 April 1904 · page 5

The Yalu is 100 yards wide at Youngamplio. Russian sharpshooters occupy islandsin the river…

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Russo=jap. War. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 14 April 1904 · page 5

The chief of the Russian Navy Staff says that the Russian fleet at Port Arthur at the outset should have gone out and fought tooth and…

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Some War Words

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 15 April 1904 · page 3

How to pronounce the places more prominently just at present before the public :— Manchuria—" Mun-joor-eea."…

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