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The wars & local soldiers, 1903

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Royal Academy Dinner. Secretary of War and the Army. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 2

Speaking at the Royal Academy dinner on Saturday night, the Hon. St. John Bro[?]rick, Secretary for War, in the course of a speech, referred to…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 3 P.M. the War Cloud. Sanguinary Encounters. [Reuter's Message.) London, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 May 1903 · page 4

Repor[?] from the Continent state that many of the [?]-throwers in Salonics last Wednesday were disguiised as women and monks…

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The War Cloud. Furtber Bulgarian Outrages. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 May 1903 · page 2

The German steamship Lorely, now at Constantinople, has been ordered to Salonica. The number of Bulgarians killed…

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The following appeared in yesterday's Second Edition:— the War Cloud. Sanguinary Encounters. [Reuter's Message.] London, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 May 1903 · page 4

Reports from the Continent state that many of the bomb-throwers in Salonica last Wednesday were disguised as women and monks…

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Recogu[?]tion of War Services. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 May 1903 · page 2

King Edward has commanded the Royal Inniskilling Fasillers (which comprises the old 27th and 108th Foot) to wear a grey plume in…

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South Africa. Cost of the War. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 May 1903 · page 2

The Afrikander Bond Congress, now sitti[?]g at Somerset East, Cape Colony, has carried a resolution unanimously condemning any contribution being…

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The War Cloud. Further Fighting. Governments at Variance. Russian Troops About to Move. [Reuter's Messages.] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 May 1903 · page 2

It is reported as Bad[?] Pe[?]th, the capital of Hungary, than 400 carriages on the K[?]burg(Austria). Kronstadt (Russia) railway have been…

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An Adelaide Divorce Case. a Soldier any his Bride. Well-known Surveyor Co-respondent. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 May 1903 · page 1

In the civil sitting of the Supreme Court today, the Chief Justice (Sir Samuel Way) heard the petition of Albert Rowell Nixon for a divorce…

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The following appeared in yesterday's Third Edition:— the War Cloud. Spread of the Disaffection. Exciting Doings in Salonica. [Returer's M[?]ssage.] London, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 May 1903 · page 1

Signs of disaffection are, i[?] ia said, showing in every Asiatic battalion in Albania. Tha Albanians are burning to be employed on behalf of the…

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The War Cloud. Further Fighting in Macedonia. Turkey's "Extraordinary Measures." [Reuter's Messages.] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 May 1903 · page 2

A fight between the Turkish troops and revolutionaries in Macedonia has occurred at Banitza, near Seres, northeast of Salonica. Sixty Bulgarians,…

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The War Cloud. Anxious Times. Turkish Invasion of Bulgaria Possible. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 2

A French naval division has been ordered to Salonica. Two Bulgarians at Prishtins, in Albania, have been arrested charged…

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Australian Soldiers and the War. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 May 1903 · page 2

Surgeon-Major [?] Bakewell, of New Zealand, has re[?]tersted a statement appealing in The Times that the War Office has still before it the unsettled…

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The Far East. Paying the War Indemnity. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 May 1903 · page 2

Advices from the Far East state that a large body of anti dynastic rebels invaded Li[?]gan, a city in the province of Y[?]nan, in the south-west…

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General Cabls News. [Reuter's Messages.] a Relic of the War. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 May 1903 · page 2

Major-General R. S. Baden Powell yesterday preasnted to King Edward ab B[?]ckingham Palace the gan mannfactured in Mafe[?]ing during the slege…

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Death of a Soldier. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 May 1903 · page 2

Lieutenant Colonel Cairn[?]css, formerly Assistant-Commandant General and Deputy-Commandant of the Victorian forces, died yestorday, aged 60…

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A Healthy Reaction. No More War

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 May 1903 · page 3

I NEVER (writes the Advertiser's Lon don correspondent) saw such a remarkable reaction as has taken place in the jingoistic attitude of this country…

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A Sequel to the War. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 2

Sir Arthur Lawley, Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal, has remitted the remainder of the sentences passed on the majority of the burghers…

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A Soldier's Rights. Legal Assertion Refused. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 2

In the Jury Court yesterday a gunner, a member of the "A" battery, who went to South Africa, proceeded against the State Government for the…

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In Memory of the War. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 June 1903 · page 2

The Daily Mail says that the War Office is presenting to the hesdquarters of each colonial contingent which took part in the war in South Africa a flag,…

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South Africa and the War. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 June 1903 · page 2

An ordinance providing for the payment of a war contribution, of £5,000,000 out of the future mineral resources of the colony has passed its…

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