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

The wars & local soldiers, 1908

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Military Small Beer. Anecdotes of an Old Soldier

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 5

Some amusing anecdotes of generals he served with or met are related in the September "Cornhill Magazine" by an old soldier who chronicles the small…

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Treatment of War Prisoners the Russian Fallacies

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 9 December 1908 · page 6

Writing on 6th June, the Tokio correspondent of the London "Times" says:-- By this time the Russians are probably beginning to understand what kind of…

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Cable News. Drifting to War. Austria's Perilous Position. London, Dec. 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 December 1908 · page 4

The Vienna correspondent of the Times writes that there is a growing feeling that Austria-Hungary is drifting aimlessly but steadily to war, to which all except some military and…

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A Woman Soldier Cossacks' Scout and Interpreter

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 16 December 1908 · page 6

The St. Petersburg illustrated journal, "Neva," publishes an interview which its war correspondent had had at Mukden railway station with the soldier…

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To Meet the Baltic Fleet New Japanese Engines of War

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 23 December 1908 · page 4

These have been (writes the Paris correspondent of the before "Daily Mail" on the June) persistent resorts as to [?] new and [?] desire that the Japanese…

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Every Youth a Soldier. Australia's Scheme of Defence. Would It Work in England?

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 26 December 1908 · page 3

In view of the interest excited by the Bill introduced into the Australian Federal Parliament for compulsory military training, "The Evening News,"…

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Cable News. Balkan Situation. War in Spring Predicted. London, Dec. 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 December 1908 · page 2

The Bulgarian, Italian, Servian, and Turkish newspapers commend the speech of N. Isvolsky, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, delivered before the Duma…

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