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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1897

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War in Europe. London, June 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 4

By the projected rectification of the Greco-Turkish frontier Turkey secures the mountain crests on the Thessalian frontier, but no part of Thessaly is included in the agreement…

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The War in Europe. London, June 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 June 1897 · page 2

The foreign Ambassadors in Constantinople have offered to Turkey a tract of country embracing an area of 400 square kilometres on the Thessalian frontier…

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Greco-turkish War. London, June 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 June 1897 · page 2

Reports from Athens state that the Turks have occupied positions commanding Agrapha, and that the Greeks have occupied Karepnisi, to prevent pillaging…

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War Correspondents in Court. London, July 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 July 1897 · page 2

Mr. Atteridge, war correspondent for the "Daily Chronicle" in the late Soudan campaign, has recovered £1000 damages from Mr. Edward Frederick Knight, the "Times" special war…

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Civil War

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 2

The officials of the general post-office and the Sydney council employees had a misunderstanding on Monday night over the opening of Pitt-street immediately above the…

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Ye Civic Civil War in Sydney

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 4

As forecasted in the Star some days ago, the opening of the wood blocks at the corner of Pitt and Park streets revealed a hollow state of affairs in…

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An Old Soldier's Story. a Reminiscence of the Zulu Campaign

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 August 1897 · page 4

MR. RICHARD GROVES owns a comfortable house and grounds at Hyde Park, near Rookwood, Sydney, and is spending the remainder of a stirring life in honorable retirement. To reporter who recently…

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The Dead in the War of Gold

Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 August 1897 · page 4

GRIM the cheerless western trumping To the land of gold! Marked with copies silence keeping, In the dreamless death-calm sleeping,…

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An Old Soldier's Story. a Reminiscence of the Zulu Campaign

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 August 1897 · page 2

Mr. Richard Groves owns a comfortable house and grounds at Hyde Park, near Rookwood, Sydney, and is spending the remainder of a stirring life in honorable retirement. To a reporter who…

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Turkey and Greece.—resumption of War Urged. London, Aug. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 August 1897 · page 4

Three thousand residents of Athens have urged the King of Greece to make a general call to arms, and resume, under his personal leadership, the war with Turkey…

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Trivial Causes of War. Bloodshed Over Shaving

Goulburn Herald · Friday 27 August 1897 · page 6

AMONG the curiosites of history is the oft-recurring fact that many of the great wars of the past have been indirectly brought about by very trifling…

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Strike in Pennsylvania. Many Killed and Wounded

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 September 1897 · page 3

A serious conflict with colliery strikers hat taken place in the United States, resulting in much loss of life. A number of unarmed strikers at…

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Soldiers' Sensations in Battle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 September 1897 · page 1

"IF you want to know what my sensations were in my first battle," said a distinguished colonel to the writer, "I'll tell you; they were chiefly bewilderment and fear. You…

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Spain and America.—war Considered Inevitable. London, Sept. 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 4

War with the United States over the Cuban difficulty is considered to be inevitable in Madrid. General Weyler, the Spanish Commander-in-Chief in Cuba, reports to his Government that he is…

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Indian Frontier War. London, Oct 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 October 1897 · page 2

The Mahmonds who on Sunday surrounded Brigadier-General Jeffrey's brigade after it had destroyed the forts at Badelai jeeringly expressed their disappointment that he did not resume the…

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Indian Frontier War. London, Oct. 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 4

General Sir W. S. A. Lockhart, the Commander-in-Chief of the expedition against the Afridis, has issued a notification to the tribesmen that terms of peace will be dictated at Tirah, the objective point…

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Indian Frontier War. London, Oct. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 October 1897 · page 2

Advices from the north-western frontier of India state that the telegraph wires to Jamrud have been out. At the convention of Parnellites in Dublin to-day…

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Indian Frontier War. London, Oct. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 October 1897 · page 4

Latest advices from the north-western frontier of India state that the Mohmands are surrendering the Martini-Henry rifles which they captured from the Indian troops in recent encounters, and are…

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Indian Frontier War. London, Oct. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 October 1897 · page 4

Reports received from the Viceroy of India state that the Orakzais and the Afridis in the Bazar Valley opposed the advance of General Sir William Lockhart's expedition to Tirah. The division under…

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Indian Frontier War. London, Oct. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 October 1897 · page 2

Further reports from the north-western frontier of India state that the post in the Chagra Valley attacked by the British was defended by 6000 tribesmen. During the engagement Major R. D…

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