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The wars & local soldiers, 1905

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The Week's War News. Sydney

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 2

THE Japanese Consul at Manilla announces that Admiral Togo's main squadron's rendezvous is at South Formosa. The Governor-General of Saigon refused…

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Russian Sick and Wounded. Scarcity of Doctors. the Anglo-japanese Alliance. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 5

Telegrams received at Merlin state that Marshal. Oyama is preparing for a large turning movement on both Russian flanks, In an encounter near Taiyuan the…

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Latest War Cables. Naval Skirmish. French Neutrality Incident. Apanese Appeased. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 5

The Puris correspondent of the "Times" eulogises the friendly firmness and tact of Dr. Montono; the Japanese ' Minister' at Puris, in dealing with the Kamrnnh Bay…

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The Russo-jap. War London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1905 · page 3

A British steamer passed two squadrons sixty miles south of Penang which are supposed to be the second Baltic Squadron…

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Russo-jap War London

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 3

Marshal Oyama commands 600,000 effective troops in Manchuria. Tho total number of Japanese wounded and sick since the beginning of the war is a quarter…

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latest War Cables. Baltic and Japanese Fleets. British Cruisers Patrolling. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 5

An important division of Admiral Togo's fleet is at Tsushima Island, in the Channel of Korea. Admiral Roshdestvensky's Baltic fleet has…

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Tragedy of War

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 May 1905 · page 7

Mr. T. P. O'Connor, commenting on Mr. Douglas Story's "The Campaign with General Kuropatkin," says:--…

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The Russo-jap. War London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 May 1905 · page 4

All the Japanese losses at Mukden have been replaced. The Russians have received 42,000 reinforcements…

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Russo-war War London

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 5

All tho Japanese losses at Mukden have been replaced. The Russians have received 12000 reinforcements…

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The Eastern War. SYDNEY

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 5

THREE warships, supposed to be Japanese, were sighted on Saturday, one 50 miles south-west of Cape Saint Jacques. They are presumed to be…

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Latest War Cables. Baltic Fleet Sighted. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 5

A telegram from Tokio states that Admiral Niebogatoff, in command of the third squadron of the Baltic Fleet, passed Singapore on Saturday. Important events…

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Soldiers in Camp

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 6

Householders will be surprised to know how cheaply a number of men can be fed by the military authorities if the food has not to be delivered at any great distance. At the two…

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The Russo-jap. War London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 8 May 1905 · page 3

Admiral Roshdestvensky is off the Island of Honlon, 25 miles north of Kamranh. Admiral Jonquiers has left Saigon to…

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Russo-jap War London

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 3

Startling revelation have been made before the commission which is carrying on an investigation at St. Petersburg into the circumstance surrounding the surrender of…

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Latest War Cables. the Baltic Fleet. Japanese Indignant with France. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 5

Four Russian torpedo boats from Vlndivostock arrived on the west coast of Hokkaido, and burned a small, vessel. The feeling in Japan against France on…

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The Russo-jap. War International Complications. a Grave Situation. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 11 May 1905 · page 5

Twenty-one of the Baltic fleet ships were off Vanlong and 14 cruisers were off the Three Kings on Wednesday. Reports from Tokio state that…

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The Last Horror of War. An Appeal to Humanity. Port Arthur

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 11 May 1905 · page 6

As far as I have been able to ascertain, dynamite, uncased in small portable tins, was first used by the Japanese on August 21 during the attack…

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War Office Methods

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 2

Several stories of War Office methods, probably inventions, are going the rounds of the papers. The Following, it is alleged, is furnished by a correspondent on one…

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Russo- Jap War London

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 4

Rozhdestvensky, with the whole of the Baltic fleet, quitted the vicinity of Vangfong on Tuesday last. On Saturday he was anchored at Thungon preparing to renew his stock of French…

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The Week's War News. Sydney

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 2

THE latest outlook abroad is very disquieting. One Japanese paper declares that France has virtually taken up arms against Japan…

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