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The wars & local soldiers, 1905

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Late War Cables. the Japanese Advance. Flank Movement Developing. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 3

General Linievitch, on Saturday, reviewed his troops, and complimented 126 men, the remnant of a rifle regiment, which rejoined the army after fighting through a superior…

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Latest War Cables. Russia Despairing. Cry for Peace. Mobilisation Abandoned. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 5

Private telegrams from the front received at St. "Petersburg state that Russian scouts in Manchuria have ridden a considerable distance south and south-west of…

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The Russo-jap. War London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1905 · page 3

Revised estimates show that the Japanese casualties at Mukden and Tie Ling were 57,000. 20,000 prisoners from Mukden have arrived in Japan…

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The Cost of the War

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 April 1905 · page 3

Before the battle of Mukden the Daily Mail "compiled a list of the casualties in the first year of the campaign and tho number of…

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The Russo-jap. War London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 April 1905 · page 5

Generals Sakharoff and Stackelberg are returning from Manchuria, the former owing to a difference with General Linievitch, and the latter on…

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The War to Be Continued. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 April 1905 · page 5

Despite the advice from certain dignitaries, whom he recently consulted, the Czar insists on continuing the war at all costs…

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Who Caused the War

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 7 April 1905 · page 8

FOR nearly ten years—from 1895 to 1904,—Japan had been preparing for this aggression on her nearest white neighbour, (says an English paper.)…

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Russo-jap War London

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 7 April 1905 · page 5

A HUNDRED thousand destitute Chinese are in the vicinity of Mukden, and scores of villages have been destroyed. The Chinese Government are feeding and housing sixty…

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The Eastern War. Sydney

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 7 April 1905 · page 2

JAPANESE from Hsing King reached a point 105 miles northeast of Tieling, after routing small, bodies of Russians It is [?] that Rozhdestvensky is,…

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Slain Soldiers Preserved

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 7 April 1905 · page 6

THE great war between Chili and Pera is ancient history; but, it is said, on the battlefield of Tarapeaca, in the desert, the dead are still lying…

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Latest War Cables. Japan's Privilege. to Dictate Terms of Peace. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 April 1905 · page 5

Dr. Morrison, the Peking correspondent of the "Times," states that the best opinion in Peking is that instead of Russia proposing negative terms of peace it is for…

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The Australian Soldier

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 April 1905 · page 3

Major-General Sir Edward Hutton is reported to be full of hope for the future of Australia as a nation, and as an important and loyal fighting factor of the British…

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The Russo-jap. War

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 April 1905 · page 2

General Linievitch has sent 50,000 men to hold Kirin. Ho has a quarter of a million between Kirin and Kwang-chentse…

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Russo-jap War London

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 3

IT is believed the Baltic fleet is endeavoring to reach Saigon, in French Cochin-China. The Russians have ordered 500,000,000 cartridges aboard. One French firm…

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All's Fair in Love and War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 2

From New York comes a story of a wellknown Klondyke miner, who won his bride by a bold piece of commerclal enterprise. He was not the only one who had fallen in…

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The Last Horror of War. an Appeal to Humanity

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 3

Mr. B. W. Norregaard writes in London "Daily Mail":—"As far as I have been able to aseertain, dynamite, encased in small, portable tins, was first used by the…

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Latest War Cables. Russian Reinforcements. the Japanese Fleet. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 5

Seventy thousand reservists in Southern Russia have been ordered to Harbin. Feverish preparations are being made to largely reinforce General Linievitch in the…

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Britain's Weakly Soldiers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 6

General Lyttleton, one of the commanders of the British army in South Africa, decinres. that the eigarette habit is playing havoc in the army, and that unless something is done soon…

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The Russo-jap. War London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 April 1905 · page 5

It is believed in Tokio that Rozhdestvensky's fleet will soon proceed to a rendezvous in the Pacific. The Japanese scouts were the…

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Latest Telegrams. Soldiers Pay Dispute. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 April 1905 · page 5

Mr. Curruthers says that, despite the Privy Council's decision, the Royal Commissioner, regarding tho disputed pay of the soldiers, will…

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