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

The wars & local soldiers, 1910

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[Reuter's.] London, Tuesday. Soldiers Caught in a Storm.—four Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 March 1910 · page 4

Six hundred of the Wiltshire, regiment accompanied by General Methuen; left Pietermaritzburg to surprise a militia camp, when a storm caused a spruit to rise…

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Balloons in War: Difficult to Destroy

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 4

The first tests in the United States of firing at balloons have been carried put at Sandy Hook. A small 3-man captive balloon was anchored at a…

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War Scare, Germany’s Financial Difficulties

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 8

The task of the new German Chancellor isliKely to prove a very dement one. The question of finance in Berlin, [?] in London, governs the situation, and…

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Compasses for Soldiers

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 4

Every soldier in the Russian Army is to be provided with a pocket compass with a luminous needle, and 300,000 compasses, costing £80,000, have already been…

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The Motor Weapon in War

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 16 April 1910 · page 4

[?] FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE RECENT BRITISH MANOEUVRES…

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Cable News. Discrimination in War. Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Doctrine. London, April 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 April 1910 · page 2

The Times, commenting upon the speech of Sir Wilfrid Lauder, Prime Minister of Canada, on the third reading of the Canadian Navy Bill, writes that the principal that national armaments must be…

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Civil War. Street Fighting in French Wine District. Many Casualties. Leader Escapes Dressed as a Woman

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1910 · page 5

Disturbances approaching a state of civil war have broken out in the disaffected wine-growing departments in the South of France, and many casualties are reported…

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Distinguished Soldier's Lapse

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 2

At the Sydney Quarter Sessions on Friday a tall, soldierly-looking many who had won the D.S.O. in South Africa, Major William Edward O'Brien, 53 years of age, pleaded guilty…

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Race War in America. Seventeen Negroes Killed

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 11 May 1910 · page 4

Seventeen negroes were killed near Memphis, Tennessee, late In December (reports the "Express"), in consequence of a renewal of the race was which…

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Where Every Man Is at War with His Neighbour

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 May 1910 · page 5

Our sketch represents a house in the Central Arfak Mountain. Dutch New Guinea. The old traditions of…

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The Next Great War. Sir Hiram Maxim's Views

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 18 May 1910 · page 3

"The wars of the future will be fought in the air. The chief weapon used will undoubtedly be something in the nature of an aerial torpedo…

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Anarchist Plot in Chicago. Chief of Police Wounded

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 28 May 1910 · page 3

A determined attempt was made to-day to assassinate the Chief of Police of Chicago, Mr. George M. Shippy, who during the last week has drawn a ring of…

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Heroes Begging. P[?]iable Plight of Wounded Russians

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 1 June 1910 · page 3

There is great and growing indignation in St. Petersburg over the unpardonable indifference shown by the Russian Government towards the…

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War in the Air. French A[?]rial Fleet

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 June 1910 · page 7

The news that the French Government is to receive two [?] balloons and three milltary aeroplanes as a gift from private genero[?]ly has come…

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War in the Air. French Aerial Fleet

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 14 June 1910 · page 4

The news that the French Government is to receive two steerable balloons and three military aeroplanes as a gift from private generosity has come…

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Relics of the Japanese War

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 5

Those who have any old rifles, fragments of shells, torn, bits of flags, or battered bayonets, are recommended to send them to New York, where a brisk trade is…

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Another Army Proposal. Soldier Tailors

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 22 June 1910 · page 5

The latest proposal which is being discussed by the Army Council is one suggested by Sir John Fisher. It is that soldiers, like sailors, should make their…

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A Soldier's Revenge

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 4

During the South African war the censorship of soldiers' letters home was very strict. One soldier, who always sent an account of the doings of the regiment, which account was…

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Short Story. a Soldier of Brittany

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 6

It was in the country near the forest not far from the Scine, in the modest villa where I hoped to spend my old age, that I saw Jean de Thommeray for the first time. He…

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The Green Island. a New Land War

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 6

"The West's awake." The newspaper reports of the anti-grazing movement show that, but to get a real conception of the state of affairs…

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