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The wars & local soldiers, 1895

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The Indian Frontier War. Capture of Umra Khan. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 April 1895 · page 2

THE Khan of Dir, who is friendly towards the British, has sent a force of 2000 men to Chitral to relieve Dr. Robertson, the British agent, and his…

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The Corean War. Peace Concluded. Strange Proclamation in China. Ill Treatment of American Ladies. The Demands of Russia

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 April 1895 · page 2

The Japanese Legation at Washington hay been informed that an understanding has been arrived at between the Japanese and Chinese…

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The Outcome of the Eastern War

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1895 · page 2

The statement that a treaty of peace had been concluded between Japan and China is the most noteable news which has transpired during the week…

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The Indian Frontier War

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1895 · page 3

Lieutenants Fowler and Edwards, who are attached to the Chitral expedition, were captured by the enemy through treachery while they were engaged in a polo match. Lieutenant Edwards has…

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The Indian Frontier, War. Chitral Garrison Safe

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 April 1895 · page 2

The India Office thinks that the British garrison, with Dr. Robertson, the agent at Chitral, which according to last accounts was reduced to great…

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The Corean War. Results of Peace. Action of European Powers

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 April 1895 · page 2

AT St. Petersburg it is reported that Great Britain has informed the Russian Government that no ground exists for interference by the European…

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The Indian Frontier War. London, April 17

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 April 1895 · page 3

Despite the assurances given by Umra [?] that Dr. Robertson, the British Agent at Chitral, and his party ire no longer menaced, the British relief expedition continues to march upon Chitral…

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A Civil War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 April 1895 · page 3

It is probable that Nicaragua will be further troubled with an internal war. The British occupation of Corinto has created disaffection among a large section of people, and a rising is feared at any moment…

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The Indian Frontier War

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1895 · page 3

Farther details have been received from India of the relief of the British garrison in Chitral Fort. The siege of Chitral commenced on the 4th March and ended on the 19th April. The food on which…

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Praelium in Coelo. [War in Heaven.]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 June 1895 · page 2

I saw rebellion in the clouds: On the four winds they hurried by, And massed around, in mighty crowds, The castern portals of the sky…

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The Soldiers of the Mahdi

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 June 1895 · page 3

The Congo Free State has expelled the forces of the Mahdist from the Equatorial province after severe fighting…

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China and Japan—the War Indemnity. London, June 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1895 · page 3

American financiers are now arranging an offer to furnish the Chinese Government with 200,000,000 tales in silver, as part of the war indemnity to be paid to Japan by China…

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An Italian Man-of-war Aground

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1895 · page 3

The Italian man-of-war Sardegna, which was one of the vessels forming the Italinu squadron at Kiel on the occasion of the opening of the Baltic and North Sea Canal, has gone aground in the Great…

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War Probable Between Russia and Japan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1895 · page 3

Shanghai papers declare that a war between Russia and Japan is inevitable. The question in dispute is the control of Corea, and it is regarded as almost certain that hostilities will begin within…

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Chinese War Indemnity

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 June 1895 · page 3

It is persistently reported that the proposed Russo-Chinese loan of 400,000,000[?] (£16,000,000), which was to have been issued in Paris, has been abandoned, China preferring to negotiate with…

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The Chinese in War

Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 June 1895 · page 3

All sorts of quaint instances of Chinese fatuity in connection with the war are coining to light, but one of the oddest is given by the Nauking…

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The War in Macedonia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 June 1895 · page 3

Serious fighting, which lasted many days, has taken place at Macedonia. Churches have been converted into hospitals, and villages abandoned by the inhabitants have been burned by tho Turkish…

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The Chinese War Indemnity

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 July 1895 · page 3

China is willing to concede to Russia and France the raising of half the amount of the indemnity loan (£16,000,000), provided the other half be raised in Great Britain and Germany…

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Grounding Op an Italian Man-of-war

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 July 1895 · page 3

The Italian man-of-war Sardegna (one of the vessels forming the Italian squadron at the Kiel demonstration), which went aground in the Great Belt while on her return voyage to the…

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War Incidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 July 1895 · page 4

Gen. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, in his lecture, "From Gettysburg to Appomattox," said that nothing like the personal friendship and fraternization which existed and occurred…

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