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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1912

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War Risks Insurance

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1912 · page 9

According to the "Times," the London underwriters are unable to explain several independent inquiries lately made regarding the terms of insurance to cover…

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" War Inevitable."' Slump in British and German Securities

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 2

The London "Statist" attributes the phenomenal decline in British consols to the universal belief at home and abroad that war with Germany…

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Italy is Tired of War

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 4

Italy is [?] up of the Turkish war. The Italian Government has [?] informed the powers that [?] ready and anxious…

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Home Rule. Threat of Civil War. LONDON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 29 July 1912 · page 5

At a great Unionist demonstration Mr. Bonar Law (Unionist leader in the House of Commons) declared that the despatch of troops against…

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Soldiers Struck. Killed by Lightning. LONDON, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 31 July 1912 · page 3

During the army manoeuvres in England, 40 Territorials, while sheltering under a tree, were struck by lightning. One was killed and…

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A Soldiers' Letter's

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 6 August 1912 · page 4

Mrs. Chas. Marr, Cowper, has received the following letters from her brothers, Len and Mervin Wallwork ; the former is with the Expeditioaary Force…

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Unclaimed War Medals

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 5

Few people are aware (remarks a London correspondent) that thousands of fully inscribed war medals are lying in the War Office storerooms awaiting…

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Latest Carles. War Wanted. BULGARIA v. Turkey. Popular Outburst at Sofia London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 16 August 1912 · page 5

A aeuaiation of war against Turkey was unanimously demanded by the mass meeting of 20,000 people that was held yesterday in Sofia,…

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Duelling in the Army. War Minister's Apology

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1912 · page 3

The subject of duelling in the German army came up again on Tuesday in the Reichstag, when General von Heeringen, Minister for War, offered a…

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The Tripolitan War. Seeking a Peace Basis. LONDON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 19 August 1912 · page 3

Private pourparliers have been started by Turkish and Italian delegates with a view to discovering a basis of peace…

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War in the Balkans

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 20 August 1912 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The rumour of the impending outbreak of war in the Balkans is certain to cause a feeling of the [?]tmost alarm. At present the most…

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A Certain Outlook. The War on the Capitalist

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 22 August 1912 · page 3

From time to time the present writer has contributed articles to the "Examiner" on the con[?]scatory trend of that great section of the Labor Party whose…

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Soldiers' Love of Animals

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 23 August 1912 · page 3

The British soldier always has a soft corner in his heart for animals of all sorts, and a regiment without its complement of these would be…

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Ghastly Massacre. Nearly 5000 Soldiers Butchered. VANCOUVER

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 23 August 1912 · page 5

Nearly the entire detachment of five thousand Nicaraguan troops, comprising the garrison at the city of Leon, was massacred by the…

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The Tripolitan War

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 24 August 1912 · page 2

THE slowness of the slight disturbance over Tripoli, being carried on between the gobbler aud the peanut (latest authenticated title of the…

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Crying for War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 August 1912 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday.—Reuter's Sofia correspondent reports that the Bulgarian view of Count Berchtold's invitation to the Powers to discuss the Balkan crisis…

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A War of Words. Taft V. Roosevelt. Bitter Invective

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 24 August 1912 · page 3

President Taft and Mr Roomsevelt, in the wild scramble to secure the delegates necessary for Presidential nomination, are now rath [?] "like Ki[?]…

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End of the Abyssinian War

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 30 August 1912 · page 6

On April 13, 1868, the British war against Abyssinia terminated by the tall of Magdala, its capital, and the suicide of Theodore, its Negus, or…

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The Clarence & Richmond [?]raminer. Established 1859 Grafton: Saturday, Aug. 31, 1912. War Against the Mosquito

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 4

With the approach of the warm weather comes the accompanying disagreeable pests—the mosquito and the fly. Too little attention is given to these. People…

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War in Tripoli. Prospects of Settlement. LONDON, Friday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 September 1912 · page 3

The "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Rome states that there is every prospect that as the result of official pourparlers Turkey will…

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