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The wars & local soldiers, 1904

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The Eastern War. SYDNEY

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 15 April 1904 · page 5

REPORTS from St. Petersburg admit a Russian defeat at the Yalu River, one brigade suffering severely. The total Japanese losses in the…

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Russo-Japanese War. A Russian Battle-ship Blown Up. Admiral Makaroff Drowned. London

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 15 April 1904 · page 4

THE chief of the Russian Navy Staff says that the Russian Meet at Port Arthur at the outset should have gone out and fought tooth and nail,…

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Late War Cables. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 5

Vice-Admiral Makaroff reports that the entire Russian fleet has just returned to Port Arthur, after a cruise far out to sea, but the enemy could not be seen…

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Russo-japanese War. the Cloud of Secrecy

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 5

The war scribes have gone to the front, yet the cabbles give no real insight of the cause of the war on the Yalu, nor battle description for several days…

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Russian War,vessel Sunk. 850 Men Drowned. Including Vice-admiral Makaroff (From Our Sydney Editor.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 5

The official account published of the disaster to the Petropavlovsk, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Makaroff in Port Arthur roadstead yesterday, states that…

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Russo-Jap. War. Terrible Russian Disasters. One Man of War, Two Destroyers, and over 1000 Lives Lost, including two Admirals. LONDON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 18 April 1904 · page 3

The Russian battleship, Petropavlovsk, of 10,000 tons, accidentally struck a torpedo off Port Arthur and was blown up. Only…

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Russo-japanese War. the Japs Again Victorious. a Nelsonic Trick

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 19 April 1904 · page 5

The unexpected has again happened. Whilst the Russians were reporting smart and gallant feats onthe lower Yalu, their fleet was being re-born at…

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Russo-Japanese War. Further Russian Disasters. Russia Hopeless of Naval Success

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 19 April 1904 · page 2

IT has transpired that the Russian battleship Petropavlovsk, which it was reported sank as a result of accidentally striking a mine, was…

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Late War Cables. Another Attack on Port Arthur (From Our Sydney Editor.) London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 19 April 1904 · page 5

It is officially stated that 14 Japanese ships, taking up a position to the South of Port Arthur, bombarded the fortress and town alternately, and in three hours…

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Russo=jap. War. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 21 April 1904 · page 5

The Japanese Government have purchased the steamers Birksgate and Cloncurry, two well-known Australian inter-State traders…

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Russo-Japanese War

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 22 April 1904 · page 4

MR. IWASAKI, the Japanese Consul in Sydney, has received an official account of the eighth attack on Pott Arthur. It began in laying mines at midnight on the 12th. Next morning a…

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Latest War News. Sydney

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 22 April 1904 · page 2

LATER particulars in regard to the sinking of the Russian battleship Petropalovsk show that a Japanese destroyer laid over thirty submarine mines at the entrance to Port Arthur,…

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Russo-japanese War. Battle Truth at Last

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 23 April 1904 · page 8

Some more details of the eighth attack upon Port Arthur and its handicapped fleet arrived this morning, all of which are interesting, showing splendid naval…

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Cable News of the War. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 23 April 1904 · page 8

General Kuropatkin reports that Russian outposts have occupied islands on the Lower Yulu, within 400 yards of the Japanese outpost, who retreated at…

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Late War Cables. 311,000 Russians at the Front. Japanese Constructing Submarines. Newspaper Correspondents Treated As Spies

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 23 April 1904 · page 5

A Russian official statement is to the effect that there are 311,000 men at the front, and it is not intended to send more at present…

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Russo =Jap. War. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 25 April 1904 · page 3

Newspaper correspondents are allowed at Mukden on condition that they do not divulge news or give the result of engagements, or…

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Siberian War Scenes

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 26 April 1904 · page 4

A RUSSIAN correspondent proceeding to the front wrote last month as follows to the St. Petersburg Telegraph Bureau from Irkutsk, Siberia:—…

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Ethergrams in War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 April 1904 · page 4

Russia has now issued a circular to the Powers on the use of ethergrams in warfare, stating that war correspondents on neutral steamers will be treated as spies,…

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Russo-japanese War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 April 1904 · page 5

All is quiet along the Yalu, as it once was along the Potamac. The fight off Port Arthur is now a matter of history, and the query is what will next happen?…

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The Russo-Japanese War. London

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 26 April 1904 · page 2

NEWSPAPER correspondents are allowed at Mukden on condition that they do not divulge news or give the result of engagements, or of Russian…

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