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

The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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Racial War in America. Thousand Negroes in Arms. London, Sept. 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 2

One thousand negroes, of Brownsville have pro[?]ured arms to retaliate on the whites. Police are [?]losely watching Clark University, Brownsville, here there are 400 negro students. Some…

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Tampering with War Plans

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 October 1906 · page 4

A colonel of Engineers at St. Petersburg has been arrested in connection with the sale of important plans for frontier defence to agents of a foreign Power…

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Tampering with War Plans. London, Oct. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 4

A colonel of Engineers at St. Petersburg has been arrested in connection with the sale of important plans for frontier defence to agents of a foreign Power…

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The Tobacco War

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 3

Ogdens, Limited, formerly tobacco manufacturers, who promised to pay a bonus to their customers, have paid £90,000 to settle all claims against them for the bonus…

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Cable News. Russia. Soldiers Refuse to Be Executioners. London, Oct. 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 6

Reuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg telegraphs it is reported that the troops composing the Kronstadt garrison have intimated to the Government that they will not shoot the 19 sailors recently…

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War Stores Scandals

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 17 October 1906 · page 2

The Army Council has decided that no action is necessary in the cases of the Generals commanding is South Africa after the close of the war…

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Bezobrazeff. Favourite of the Tsar. the Man Who Made War

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 3

When the history of the Russo-Japanese war comes to be written it will be found to have been the work of one man -- M. Besobrazoff…

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Cable News. War Stores Scandals. Lieutenant-colonel Removed. Two Colonels Retired. London, Oct. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 2

The Army Council has considered the report of the Royal Commission on War Stores in South Africa. The Army Council has decided that no…

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War Stores Scandal. the Army Council Takes Action. London

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 24 October 1906 · page 4

The Army Council has considered the report of the Royal Commission on War Stores in South Africa, which was appointed in June, 1905, to make further inquiry into…

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Lessons From the War

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 31 October 1906 · page 4

4000 students from the Japanese military colleges are inspecting the battlefields in Manchuria…

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Love, War, and Electioneering

Goulburn Herald · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 2

IT has long been said that "all is fair in love and war", to which has more recently been added "and in electioneering." The statement, however, may be controverted…

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A Terrible Result of War

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 2

Woman (twice married): 'Here a hero lies. Yon would not be my husband to-day. Dick, had John not been killed at Paardsburg…

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The Latest. London, Friday. War Office Contracts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 4

Mr. Haldane, Secretary for War, states that restrictions of a preferential or protective character are being removed from War Office contracts in accordance with the Government's…

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News in War Time

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 23 November 1906 · page 3

"AN EXPENSIVE NUISANCE." At the concluding sitting of the Journalists' Conference in Dublin on 5th September, a resolution was adopted…

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Colonel Bridge, R.m.l.i., and the Present Position of the War Office

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 December 1906 · page 8

According to all reports, most of them from military men, there is only one department of the War Office which is being run right and that is the department…

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The Insurance War

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 5 December 1906 · page 3

THE fight between the insurance companies for business in West Australia is being watched with much interest by Superintendent Lapsloy, chief the Perth Metropolitan…

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Reparation for War. London, Dec. 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 December 1906 · page 2

An anonymous correspondent signing himself "Liberal Imperialist," writes to the Standard, stating that a representative Liberal plainly informed him that the concessions granted by…

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Returned Soldiers' Pay

Goulburn Herald · Monday 10 December 1906 · page 4

THE Legislative Assembly on Friday passed a vote of £20,000 for returned soldiers' pay. The Premier, referring to the subject subsequently, said that he hoped to be able to pay…

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California Excited. War with Japan Predicted. London, Dec. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 December 1906 · page 2

The excitement in California over the Japanese question increases. The railways are urged to provide separate cars for the Japanese. Meetings which have been held in San…

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Returned Soldiers’ Pay

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 13 December 1906 · page 2

The Premier says he hope to be able to hand over the amounts before Christmas in connection with returned soldiers’ pay. A sum of £20,000 has been placed…

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