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

The wars & local soldiers, 1911

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The Commonwealth Treasury. Guarded by Soldiers with Bayonets

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 5

YELLOW gold, in the shape of [?] eight has been pouring into the [?] T[?] days past, (says the SUN.) It has time in big boxes…

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Battle with Anarchists Five Hours’ Fighting in East London. Against 1500 Police and Many Soldiers. Machine Guns in City Street. Six Anarchists Killed. Three Police and Two Civilians Dying. London

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 6

The London police have wiped out one of the vilest hotbeds of anarchy in London, and have rid the world of at least half a dozen criminal…

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How Wags the World. War Against Hat Pins

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 4

The Berlin Police President is determined to put an end to hat-pin accidents. He has just issued an edict that hat pine must either be abolished or protected at the end by special…

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Submarine in War. Important Experiments by the Admiralty

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 6

Important experiments with the object of ascertaining accurately the effect of gun-fire on submarines under I war conditions, and the risks to which…

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"Please, Sir, I've Come to Enlist."

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 4

"Please, sir, I've come to enlist." It was a little girl who spoke, and she looked the picture of misery as she stood sobbing at the door of an area office in one of the western…

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Cost of a German War Appalling Figures

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 3

According to a writer in the “Quarterly Review,” the loss to Prance by the Franco-Prussian War [?]e circulated at 544,000,060 sterling, while the victor’s…

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War in the Air. Aeroplane V. Dirigible. Difficulty of Destroying a Balloon

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 7

Mr W. F. Reid-lecturing on , Tuesday at a meeting of the Aeronautical Society (said “Lloyd’s News” on October 30) expressed the opinion that the…

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Soldier’s Heart. Food and Clothes Reform

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 7

Mr Haldane, Secretary for War, speaking at the Royal Army Medical School, Millbank, yesterday afternoon, in connection with the prize…

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A Soldier-member

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 2

One of the most interesting soldier-members of the new Parliament is Sir Reginald: Pole-Carew, who gained a seat for the Unionists, at Bodmin. Born in 1849, he is the eldest son of…

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War in the Air. Aeroplane V. Dirigible. Difficulty of Destroying a Balloon

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 4

Mr. W.F. Reld, lecturing on Tuesday at a meeting of the Aeronautical Society (said "Lloyd's News" on October 30) expressed the opinion that the…

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Soldier's Heart. Food and Clothes Reform

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 4

Mr Haldane, Secretary for War, speaking at the Royal Army Medical School, Millbank, yesterday afternoon, in connection with the prize…

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Cable News. "Ran From the Enemy." Soldier's Action for Libel. London, Feb. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 February 1911 · page 2

A former sergeant-major in the Middle-sex Yeomanry, named Edmondson, is suing Leopold Charles Amery, editor of the "Times History of the War in South Africa,"…

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A Soldier Member

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1911 · page 2

Major Anstruther Gray, Unionist member for St. Andrews Burghs in the 1906 Parliament, but defeated in January, has been again elected for his old constituency. He joined the 13th Hussars…

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The Barbed are Fence in War

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

In every wa[?]me of the bravest of the brave, who do [?]eds worthy of praise, are never known [?] name. This is true in an especial way of the late war between Spain…

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The Aeroplane in War. New York, Feb. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1911 · page 6

M. Rene Simon, a French airman, started in an aeroplane from the United States border in an attempt to locate the position of the Mexican rebels south of Jaurez. Although…

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Aeroplanes in War. Paris, Feb. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 February 1911 · page 1

Fifty aeroplanes have been purchased for the army, and a hundred military airmen are now in training…

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Will There Be War. Russia and China. Alarming Reports. Other Nations Involved. London

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 22 February 1911 · page 3

THE TIMES correspondent at St. Petersburg says that, owing to China’s persistent disregard of treaty obligations in regard to the East China railway and consular…

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War Predicted. Washington, Feb. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 6

Mr. Hobson, a member of the House of Representatives, predicts war between Japan and the United States within the next twelve months…

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In the Event of War. Paris, Feb. 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 February 1911 · page 4

Apropos of the discussion whether Britain, in the event of war, could arrange with France to guard the Mediterranean, Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle, in an interview with a…

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Aeroplanes in War. London, March 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 March 1911 · page 2

The War Office has organised an air battalion in connection with the Royal Engineers, to supersede the balloon school. The object is to create a body of expert airmen, who will be…

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