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The wars & local soldiers, 1911

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The Examiner Established 1859. Grafton: Tuesday, August 1, 1911. The War Scare

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 August 1911 · page 4

The embarrassing situation in Morocco has aroused the activity of the war caremongers, a class of people who are never content unless they are stirring up…

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The Moroccan Crisis. General Fear of War. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 5

The fear that a renewal of the Moroccan crisis is impending is marifested by all the European stock markets…

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The Great War. Written from the Vantage Date 1920 (Special for the "Examiner.")

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 August 1911 · page 4

War was declared by France and England together following Germany's insistence on the cession of more territory then France was able to cede…

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Aeroplanes and War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 8 August 1911 · page 5

A Journal interviewed M. Vedrihes, who said, that army aeroplanes would, render the greatest fleets useless. In the event of war, with Germany, French aviators…

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Danger of War Over

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 8 August 1911 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The "Standard," claims to have very good' authority for. the statement that all danger of war over Morocco has…

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Industrial War in England Strikers Beat Back Police and Troops. Entire Army Division Ordered Out. London, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 14 August 1911 · page 3

After a day of the wildest rioting London has ever seen the soldiers tonight are streaming from Aldershot, and by morning the metropolis will…

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Soldier Artist

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 6

A quartermaster-sergeant in the Royal Engineers has had his first picture accept[?] and hung at the Royal Academy. The [?]ful artist is Mr. E. Stephens, now…

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Civil War at Liverpool. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 3

Unchecked rioting continues at Liverpool. The settlement in London has made no difference, and additional battalions of the Yorkshire…

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Lynch Law. Racial War in Oklahama. Vancouver

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 3

A serious rarial war between the negroes and whites is feared at Durant, Oklahama, as the outcome of a sample of a mob justice inflicted a…

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Latest Cables Industrial War in Britain. the Strikers Pleased. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 3

Ben Tillet characterises the settlement of the dockers' strike as the greatest labor victory of the tury, as more than one hundred…

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Railway Labour War. The Trouble Extending. Military Charging with Fixed Bayonets

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 17 August 1911 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The Railway Labour war is spreading to Birmingham, Bristol, and Sheffield, where numerous sectional strikes have commenced…

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Careless Gunners. Four Persons Killed; Fourteen Wounded. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 5

A despatch from Kars, Transcaucasia, Russia, states that during a careless gunnery demonstration by a company of soldiers grape shot was…

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Coming Railway Strike. 25,000 Soldiers in Readiness. London, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 5

The threatened general railway strike is likely to commence to-day. It is reported that at yesterday's conference the companies were asked to…

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What War Costs

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 6

The British debt in 1775 at the commencement of the American war was £128,000,000. The debt in 1783 at the conclusion of…

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Strike War Declared

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 9

A general railway strike in England has begun. Troops with machine guns hurried to London, and thousands of infantry…

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Thf Labour War. Asquith's Statement Unwarranted. A Vote of Censure

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 9

LONDON, Friday.—The railway strike has officially begun on a considerable scale. How far it will become general remains to be seen, Thousands have…

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Civil War. STRIKERS V. Army and Navy. Thousands of People Faced with Starvation. London, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 21 August 1911 · page 3

Mr. Winston Churchill announced in the House of Commons to-day that the rioting at Liverpool continued all night. He stated that the…

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Mexican Matters. Another Civil War Likely. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 30 August 1911 · page 3

A message from Huachuca, Arizona, states that Bowers, who was captain of General Madero's (revolutionary leader) sharp-shooters during the late…

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Our Serial Story. A Soldier's Daughter. Chapter I

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 1 September 1911 · page 8

FRANCIS CAREW, Lord Culver, had never during the whole course of his life known what it was to go without anything that he wished or desired…

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Possibilities of War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 2 September 1911 · page 2

In the course of an address on Commonwealth compulsory training, before the Liberal Women's Literary and Debating Club of New South Wales, Colonel…

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