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A correspondent writes from Nana Glen: Mr. J. Porter's residence was the scene of a very enjoyable party on Wednesday evening in the form of a "surprise" tendered…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1906
100 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 5
Bound to Be a Soldier
While horseback riding, near Philadelphia some months ago, J. Walter Wilde, a West Point Cadet, fell with his horse. The animal rolled over…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another European War. London
Hostilities have commenced between Turkey and Bulgaria. A Turkish patrol, on attempting to enter Bulgarian territory near Phillippopalis, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →German Soldier's Terrible Story
The Berlin "Rheinische Zeitung" publishes the following extract from a letter sent home by a German soldier in South Africa:—"During one…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The War Office Scandals. London
London Morgan, who was in charge of the Sales Department during the South African War, Colonel Hippwell, who succeeded him, and four other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Stores Scandals
LONDON, Wednesday.—The Army Council has considered the report of the Royal Commission on War Stores in South Africa, and has decided that no action is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Electric War Oh Mosquitoes
M. Maurice Chaulin, of Paris, has declared war, electrically, on mosquitoes and gnuts. He proposed to replace the old methods by electrocation, thanks to an apparatus…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Welcome Home
The members and congregation at the Baptist Church tendered a welcome home," in the form of a basket social, on Monday night, to their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At War with the Trusts
LONDON, Sunday.—Following on the crusade against the Trusts and the verdict recently recorded by a Grand Jury in Ohio, Judge Holt has fined, the New York…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Soldier Ant
The lion is the king of beasts, but all his magnificient strength and ferocity would avail him nothing if he had to face a mere ant. But this ant is not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sick of War
The working men of England have had enough of war. If there should be any "mafficking" in England in future they will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War of the Future. Interesting Forecast
Captain Clyde S. Ford, U.S. Army, writes in the "New York World Magazine":— It may be believed that the wars…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A War Invention
Within the last few weeks three Melbourne men have left for London, in order that a very important invention may be tested by the Imperial defence authorities. It is an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Why the Japanese Are Great Soldiers
To realise what great soldiers the tittle chaps of Japan really are, one should not only sec them in battle, but in the hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Germany's Little War. London
In all, 8268 troops have been sent to German West Africa at a cost of £480 per head annually…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bitter S Ipping War
Not only in the shipping business between the Now Zealand ports and the United Kingdom, but also all over Australasia, there is at present raging a fierce war of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Six-month" Soldiers
The six months required by Colonel Pollock for transforming raw recruits into a ready-made army, on a plan of training to which the "Spectator", gave every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Distressing Accident. the Pea Rifle Again, Bellingen Lad Dangerously Wounded
YESTERDAY morning one of those regretable accidents occurred which prompt people to look upon the pea rifle as a deadly weapon, the use of which should be carefully…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victims of the War
The "Times" comments severely upon the sentences passed upon Admiral Niebogatof and others in connection with the battle of Tsushima. The paper says the sentences…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Black War in the States
The armed n[?]gro desperado, Will Harris, who ran amok at Asheville, North Carolina, and killed five men and wounded three others, was himself killed in the woods 12…
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