The Preparations for War
If there is one thing more than another calculated to show that England, Russia, and Turkey are expecting an outbreak of hostilities, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1877
64 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 4
Soldiers and Sailors
It is a strange fact that, with better clothing and better food than fall to the lot of the masses of the population, the mortality in the army and navy is greater than amongst civilians. This startling fact…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Place and War
Pence, in her Palace [?] From the New World deals her awards around While war's leashed hounds, a-strain, for bloodshed frantic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Special Telegrams. the Russo-turkish War. London, April 28
No Russian circular despatch, justifying the proclamation of war, has yet been delivered to the other Powers. On the 26th April the Russians were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special Telegrams. the Russo-turkish War. London, May 1
England and Italy observe neutrality. The Russians have attacked Kars. The result is awaited. The Khedive helps Turkey…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reuter's Telegram to Australian Associated Press. the Russo-turkish War. London, April 30
The Turks have commenced bombarding Poti, Onagor, and Galatz. The Russian troops have occupied Giargeve. The Russians have occupied Ismail, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Special Telegrams. the Russo-turkish War, London, May 4
Two thousand men, under Chamat Chroun and Prince Silvio, with several ironclads, had an engagement with the Russian batteries at Ibrahila, or Brahilhov. They bombarded the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special Telegrams. the Russo-turkish War. London, May 11
Turkish accounts state that the Russians attempted to cross the Danube at Reni, a commercial port near the mouth of the Pruth, but were defeated with great loss in killed, wounded,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Russo-turkish War. London, May 16
Russian despatches state that their losses in the engagement near Batoum were trifling, whilst the losses on the part of the Turkish troops were enormous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. the Russo-turkish War. London, May 17
The head-quarters of the Russian army have been transferred to Ployesti. The accounts respecting the repulse of the Russian troops at Batoum have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in the East.—i
THE long-expected struggle between Russia and Turkey which has been the bugbear of European diplomacy for the last half-century, is at last upon us, and the two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in the East.—ii
IT has so long been the fashion to talk of Russia as being one of the most formidable military powers of the world, and on the other hand to regard Turkey as a nation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late Telegrams. the Rosso-turkish War. the Khedive Helps Turkey
Our telegraphic correspondent at Melbourne sends us the following important information:— "Late telegrams in the Indian papers brought by the R.M.S. Travancore state that Colonel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in the East.—iii
IT is exceedingly difficult to arrive at a correct estimate of the military resources of Turkey. There are no trustworthy statistics published by the government, as in other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in the East
FROM the estimates which I have given of the military force, of Russia and Turkey, it will be seen that the numerical preponderance is largely in favour of Russia. The relative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exciting Incident of the War
The only exciting incident of the war yet reported in an adventure of Hebart Pasha (an Englishman), the admiral of thu Turkish feet, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in the EAST.—No. V.
In estimating the forces which will be arrayed against Turkey in this war, there is one of great importance with which I have not yet doalt, but which it is impossible to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Official War Telegram
The following has been received at Melbourne from the Agent-General by the Government:-- LONDON, June 25. The Russians crossed the Danube at Galatz to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in the EAST.—No. VI
DURING the present century the independence of Turkey has been buttressed by the jealousy of the great powers. No state so weakened by disaffection, so undermined by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in the EAST.—No. VII
THE war has at last begun in earnest in European Turkey. The passage of the Danube at Sistova on the 27th of Juno by the Russian commander-in-chief, at the head…
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