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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1909

117 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 6

Shackleton's Welcome Home. LONDON, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 3

Lieutenant Shackleton arrived in London on Monday, and received 400 telegrams of congratulations, from all parts of the world…

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War to the Knife. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 3

Speaking at Ballarat yesterday, Mr. Fisher, ex-Prime Minister, said the present Government had behind it every monopolistic influence in…

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Peace and War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 17 June 1909 · page 3

General Williams pictured in vivid contrast the difference between the work of a surgeon in peace and in war. In the piping times of peace the doctor hears an electric…

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A Soldier's Protest. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 18 June 1909 · page 5

A sensational story, detailing the circumstances leading up to the resignation of Staff-Sergeant-Major Daley, a member of the Australian…

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A Soldier's Grievance

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 June 1909 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—Staff-Sergeant Major Daley, one of the instructors of the Australian Light Horse, has just published an extraordinary story, which has caused…

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French Racecourse Riot. Suppressed by Soldiers. London, Monday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 23 June 1909 · page 3

A strike of the stablemen was responsible for a riotous outbreak on the racecourse at Autenil, Paris. Owing to the delay in running the…

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The Flying Man. the Wrights and Their Triumph. the Aeroplane in War. London, May 7

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1909 · page 7

The progress of the flying machine in the past eight or ten years is without parallel in the development of mechanical contrivance. A few…

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Grave Labor Problem. Trade Training of Soldiers. Skilled Workers' Concern

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 June 1909 · page 4

The growing practice in the British army of teaching trades to soldiers formed the subject of a special revert which was approved yesterday by the…

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Declaration of Industrial War

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 28 June 1909 · page 3

Mr. W. F. Rowe, president and organiser of the Broken Hill Federated Enginedrivers' and Firemen's Association, has issued a long appeal of a…

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Airships for War. and Balloon Artillery

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 July 1909 · page 3

Aeronautics will play a prominent role in the great Imperial manoeuvres this year, which take place at the end of August, on the border of Wurtemberg and…

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A Soldier's Duty

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 July 1909 · page 6

In Sir Evelyn Wood's "Reminiscences" a touching instance of courage and s[?] sacrilice is given. One June day in 1835 a detachment of English marines were…

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Cigarettes and Soldiers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 15 July 1909 · page 3

Abstinence from cigarettes is the lesson for soldiers preached by Lieutenant-General Sir William Knox in "National Defence." Two singular facts are mentioned…

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War by Electricity

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 2

Mr. Louis Nixon, the well-known American, battleship designer, who has just recently returned from a trip to Germany and St. Petersburg,…

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At War with Fashion

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 July 1909 · page 6

The Illinois State Legislature was invaded recently by 1000 suffragettes, or "female men," as they were ignominiously termed, and that raid has had results little dreamt…

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War and Its Causes

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 23 July 1909 · page 6

"The future is only the past again, entered through another gate." This striking observation, which Sir Arthur Pinero puts into the mouth of one of…

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Another Moreccan War. LONDON, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 23 July 1909 · page 5

A succession of furious attacks has been made toy the Moors on Melilla, the Spanish possession on the coast of Morocco. The attacks have been…

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Craves of Soldiers America's Sorrowful Duty

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 July 1909 · page 4

The time has now come, in the evolution of sentiment and feeling, under the providence of God, when in the spirit of fraternlty we should share with you in…

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Will the Aeroplane End War? What Mr. Stead Says

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 7

It is probable that the trade of the armourer (writes Mr. W. T. Stead in the "Daily Mail") was never more brisk than in the decade immediately before…

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Latest Cables. Morocco-Spanish War. 400 Spaniards Killed London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 5

During the fighting between the Spaniards and Moors, a detachment of Spanish troops were surprised in a ravine and were "wiped out," 400…

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400 KILLED. 1100 Wounded. London, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 August 1909 · page 3

Four hundred people were killed and 1100 wounded in the streets of Barcelona, Spain. Some 9000 armed revolutionists…

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