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

The wars & local soldiers, 1903

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(From Our Exchanges.) Great War Preparations. London, Sept. 29

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 3 October 1903 · page 2

Russia is making great efforts to strengthen her naval and military position in the Far East. At Port Arthur there are 40 Russian war-ships, in additions to which…

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An Old School Soldier

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 October 1903 · page 1

CAPTAIN ELERS "flourished," as the biographers of old were accustomed to remark, from 1777 to 1842. His active life, therefore, covered the time…

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Extraordinary Shooting Case. Four Children Wounded. Hay

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 1

A sensational shooting affair occurred last evening, resulting in four children being wounded. William Mitchell, aged between 16 and 17, was…

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War and Music

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1903 · page 2

MR Coppock, the walking soldier who undertook to walk from Melbourne to Sydney with the kit so placed on him that it would prove, if adopted, a great…

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The Far East. Japan Decides Against War. London, Oct. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 October 1903 · page 4

Count Cassini, the Russian Ambassador at Washington, is now at Paris. In the course of all interview he stated that Japan had decided against war with Russia over Manchuria and Korea…

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The Far East. War Risks. London, Oct. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 4

Many insurances have been made ac Lloyd's on vessels against risks of seizure or capture or detention on the voyage to Japanese ports or Russian ports, in the Far East. There is also much…

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South African War Medals and Clasps

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 October 1903 · page 4

Complaints have been made of the delay in issuing medals and clasps to volunteers who served in the South African war. From inquiries that have been made it seems that some 4000 medals and a…

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Boer War Scandal. Quarrels and Bewilderment

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 1

The first staggering impressions caused by the report of the commission on the South African war have been more than confirmed (writes a London…

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Memorial of the War. London, Oct. 27

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 2

A CARTOON showing the design of the Princess Louise (Duchess of Argyll) for a bronze mem[?]…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 2

There is on view in Mr. W. S. Foxall's window a copy of a photograph of the clay model of the statue to be erected in the Botanical Gardens as a memorial to the district soldiers who fell in the…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 November 1903 · page 2

MR. E. A. BETTS, secretary of the local committee of the South African soldiers' memorial, has received a photograph of the clay model of the statue to be erected in the Botanic…

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The Far Eastern Question. Prospects of War

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 5 November 1903 · page 2

According to Mr. J. Fossbrook Morris, who has been living in Korea for some time, and recently paid a visit to Port Arthur and Dalny, war is likely to…

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Soldiers' Memorial at Queanbeyan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 November 1903 · page 4

Queanbeyan, Monday.—the principal event to-day was the unveiling of a monument erected to the memory of soldiers of the Queanbeyan district who lost their lives in the South African campaign…

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The Far East. the Czar Will Not Declare War. London, Nov. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 November 1903 · page 4

The Berlin correspondent of the Standard says that the Czar told the German Emperor at their recent meeting at Wiesbaden that he would not declare war on Japan on any conditions, and that…

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One Man Killed, Two Wounded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 November 1903 · page 4

Perth, Tuesday.—A terrible tragedy was enacted at Picton Valley, three miles east of Menzies, shortly after 11 o'clock last night. The affair was reported to the Menzies police by a prospector…

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A Man Who Caused a War

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 November 1903 · page 1

CAPTAIN ANDERSON, of Penzance has been commissioned to raise the Traveller, the Government fug which was sunk in the Hamoaze, at…

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War in Practice

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 December 1903 · page 1

THE day of pen and ink sketches and vivid descriptive writing about the South African war is over, and now we are to have the calmer deductions…

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A British Soldier As a Boer Sentinel

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 December 1903 · page 1

THE Boer Commandant who had charge of the British prisoners taken after the battled of Glencoe, Dundee, and Nicholson's Nek, on going his…

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The War Cloud

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

The Japanese steamer Kumaru Maru arrived at Brisbane yesterday. The passengers state that great military activity is…

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The Far East. War Predicted

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

The St. James's Gazette, says that Japan is certain to strike before the Russian squadron at Bizerta reaches Port Arthur…

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