Select Poetry. Policeman Y on the Folly of War
WAR is Folly, that’s about it : In these here enlighten’d days, Stoopid nonsense. If you doubt it, Lissen here to what I says…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1875
10 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers
On Soldiers. (From On Babies and Ladders,)
SOLDIERS are men who were born orphans, and went into the army to prevent themselves dying of melancholy, They do not, however, go into the army until they are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Special Telegrams. an European War Imminent. London
More trouble is likely to arise out of the position taken up by the German Roman Catholic bishops. The dispute between Germany aud Belgium…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Poetry. Some Thoughts on War
"The dispute between Germany and Belgium is considered to be likely to eventuate in a general European war."--(Telegram.) Once more the pulse of Pence is beating fast--…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blessing Men-of-war
THE Broard Arrow says, referring to a form of prayer composed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, to be used at the launching of ships of war: -- In the prayer of which we are now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peace or War
THE Times says:—The military authorities of Germany were fully persuaded that France was arming for an eventual attack on the empire—an attack which would be all the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The War Scare in Europe
RUMOURS of war have been industriously circulated since our last by the continental Press. Germany is said to have made up her mind to have a slap at somebody or the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War and Population
A CURIOUS and interesting statement, having, reference to the influence of war upon the national proportions of the male and female elements in the population of Germany, has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →China Preparing for War. (From the North China Herald.)
THE mania for warlike preparation which possesses, Europe would seem to have spread to China ! Having hardly repressed internal rebellion, and restored tranquillity at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Next War in Europe. (From the Pall Mall Gazette, September 15.)
THE criticisms on the reorganization of the French army which appeared in a recent number of Blackwood's Magazine have been virtually left unanswered. Errors of detail have been corrected…
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