Killed in War
CAMILLE FLAMMARION, the French author, has a passion for big figures. General statistics, he says, prove that since the Trojan war, 3000 years…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1893
81 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 5
War Preparations in Russia. London, Jan. 24
Telegrams from Berlin report that the Russian Government are massing large bodies of troops on the Polish frontier, and are pushing forward with the construction of a number of strategic railways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cable News. Russian War Preparations. London, Jan. 27
The Vienna correspondent of the Standard confirms the report that Russia is massing large bodies of troops on the Polish frontier and making other active warlike preparations, and says that those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russian War Preparations. London, January 27
The Vienna correspondent of the Standard confirms the report that Russia is massing large bodies of troops on the Polish frontier end making other active…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attempt to Poison Soldiers. London, April 24
A mysterious attempt to poison 60 of the soldiers on duty in Honolulu is reported to have been made. The Royalist party denies that it was concerned in the attempt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colonial Soldiers. London
Her Majesty the Queen bar presented one of her photographs to each member of the teams of New Smith Wales Cavalry and Victoria Horse Artillery at present in London…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers for India. London, June 5
General Lord Roberts, who recently resigned the command of the British forces in India, has stated that 25,000 additional soldiers are urgently required for the defence of that portion of the British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Loss of the Man-of-war Ship Victoria. London, June 26
Telegrams have been received in London from all parts of the world expressing sympathy with Great Britain in connection with the terrible disaster in the Mediterranean…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in Samoa
AUCKLAND, Tuesday.—The New Zealand Herald's correspondent writing on 7th July, as the mail steamer Alameda was leaving Apia, says war has at last actually broken out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in Samoa. London, July 15
It is reported at Berlin that Germany, Great Britain, end America have directed their respective men-of-war at Apia to co-operate in restoring order in Samoa…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Civil War in Samoa
FROM an account by the Samoan correspondent of the S.M. Herald of the position of affairs in that island owing to the outbreak of civil war it appears that the white residents…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in Samoa
THE white residents of Samoa are much alarmed because Mataafa has threatened that it successful he will loot the town, and that if the men-of-war take any part he will kill every foreigner who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An American Man-of-war Fired Upon. London, July 18
Intelligence has reached San Francisco to the effect that an encounter has taken place in Behring Sea between the United States man-of-war Mohican and the Hawaiian steamer Alexandria…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cable News. Shocking Accident on a German Man-of-war. London, Aug. 3
A gun exploded on board a Garman warship at Kiel. Two officers and seven men were killed, and 18 others were wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in Samoa. London, August 7
Farther details of the fighting in same between King Malietoa and Mataafa state that Malietoa's canoes have returned to Apia from the scene of the strife full of the heads of Mataafa'a followers who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cable News. the War in Samoa. London, Aug. 5
Advices received from Samoa to the 19th July state that fighting had taken place between King Malietoa and Mataafa. The foreign men-of-war at Apia intervened with a view of putting an end to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Civil War in Samoa
THE steamer Upolu, from Samoa, brought details to Auckland of the cival war between Mat[?]afa, the rebel chief, and Malietoa, the king…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cable News. a Steamer Rammed by a Man-of-war. London, Aug 14
A collision has taken place off Start Point, on the coast of Devonshire, between H.M.S. Forth, a second-class twin-screw cruiser, and the steamer Kirby (P Kirkby)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Franco-italian War. London, Oct. 8
The Paris newspapers publish sensational reports of warlike preparations being made by Italy. The Italian Government, it is said, are mobilising their fleets and strengthening the frontier forts in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cable News. a Holy War Against Spain. London, Oct. 8
Fourteen thousand Moors have proclaimed a holy war against Spain, and are menacing Melila, a Spanish fortified town on the coast of Morocco. The Spanish Government are sending 20,000…
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