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The wars & local soldiers, 1911

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The Tripoli Trouble. Slaughter of The, Arabs. Italian Soldiers Get Beyond Control. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 November 1911 · page 8

The slaughter of the Arabs in the oaaia portion, of Tripoli by the Italians is ascribed to the Italian soldiers getting beyond control…

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Manohu Soldiers and Civilians. Killed in Cold Blood. Pekin

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 November 1911 · page 2

The rebel troops at Tai-yuan-fu boast of having killed 200 Manohu soldiers and civilians in cold blood…

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The Tripoli Trouble. Slaughter of the Arabs. Italian Soldiers Get Beyond Control. [Reutcr's Message] Loudon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 November 1911 · page 4

The slaughter of the Arabs in the casis portion of Tripoli by the Italians is ascribed to the Italian soldiers getting beyond control…

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What War Means. What a Socialist Thinks

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 November 1911 · page 3

Herr Bebel, leader of the German Socialists, in a recent speech described what a war would mean to Germany. He said:—…

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The Tripoli Trouble. a Desultory Cannonade. Seven Italians Wounded by the Turks. [Reutor's Message.] Tripoli

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 November 1911 · page 4

The Turks desultorily cannonaded Tripoli yesterday. A shell exploded in a trench, wounding seven Italians. The Carlo Albertol's guns scattered…

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Anti-european Riots in Egypt. a Holy War Preached. Cairo

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 November 1911 · page 4

Anti-European riots are reported at Alexandria, 200 arrests having been made. Four Italians and two natives are…

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Crushing Defeat of Turks. Denied by Turkish War Minister. Constantinople

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 November 1911 · page 8

Shevket Pasha, Turkish Munster for War, in denying the story of the crushing defeat of the Turks by the Italians, states that the Turks…

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Cable News The Tripoli Trouble. Italy and Turkey at War

Western Grazier · Saturday 4 November 1911 · page 3

Rumours of Turkish succe-sos and the recapture of a part of Tripoli has greatly elated the public at constantinople…

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The Tripoli Trouble. Executions "Witnessed by Italian Newspaper Correspondent, "Soldiers Drunk with the Lust Op Vengeance." [Reuter's Message.] Tripoli

Barrier Miner · Monday 6 November 1911 · page 4

An Italian newspaper correspondent is stated to hare witnessed several executions at Tripoli. A man and his wife, sentenced for…

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The Tripoli Trouble. [Reuter's Message.] Foreign Attaches Inspect Italian Entrenchments. Government Determined to Carry War to a Elvish. Rome

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 2

The foreign attaches, who inspected the Italian entrenchments in the Buburba of Tripoli, [?] the bcuring of the troops and the measures taken…

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Excited Soldiers Arab Hunting. Some Gruesome Accounts. Malta

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 2

It is reported at Malta that bodies of exeited Italians soldiers, often without officers, scoured the oasis for four days, indiscriminately shooting the…

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Bad Times Ahead. Limit of Taxation. No Provision for Drought or War

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 November 1911 · page 6

The Melbourne correspondent of the "S.M. Herald" wired on October 31:— Sponkrrig at the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Bank to-day. Mr. Agar…

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Assassinated by Manchu Soldiers. Pe[?]

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 November 1911 · page 4

The Manchu soldiers assassinated Wu, the new governor of Shansi…

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What War Would Cost

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 5

The enormous expenditure that a war between two great European Powers would entail can be seen from the following details of the cost of the…

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Cable News The Tripoli Trouble. Italy and Turkey at War

Western Grazier · Saturday 11 November 1911 · page 3

Tho consoreship has been relaxed to enable the Italian version of the Tripoli massaere to be published. The correspondent of the…

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Sefuees Arriving at Malta. Terrified by Horrors of War and Ravages of Cholera. Malta

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 November 1911 · page 4

TripoliUn refugees are arriving at Malta terrified by the horrors of war and the ravages of cholera. They report that the fighting on Friday was…

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Sensation in Russia. an Archbishop Wounded. [Reuter's Messages.] St. Petersburg

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 November 1911 · page 8

An insane ex-seminarist wounded the Ar[?]bbishop of Yolhynia (Russia) with a kiife during service yesterday. Members of the congregation…

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Revolution in China. the Regent Urged to Abdicate. to Avoid Continnud Sacrifice of Lives. Robbers Terrorising Canton Inhabitants. Yunnan Soldiers Pillaging and Burning Villages. Murdering Women and Children. [Reuter's Message.] Pekin

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 November 1911 · page 4

An Imperial ediet has been issued, which appoints Yuanshikni to the command of all troops in tho vicinity of Pekin…

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British Soldiers. Called "Murderers and Mongrel Scum." [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 November 1911 · page 2

Colonel Seely, Under Secretary of State for War, in the House of Commons yesterday promised to see if it were possible to remove from the…

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Mutiny of Imterial Soldiers. Robbery of Banks. Default of Interest on Anglo-german Loan Feared. Pekin

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 November 1911 · page 4

The Imperial soldiers are reported to have mutinied at Tientsin and Kisngpu, and the banks have been robbed. The estimated loss to the…

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