The Wool War
The wool war has now settled itself into a question of charges between the brokers, How it will resolve itself ultimately is a matter of time, and…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1898
507 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 26
News by Cable. British Soldiers Dying. LONDON
As alarming telegram from Alexandria is published to-day. It is to the effect that the British troops who have returned from the Nile are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →France and Fashoda. The Verge of War. LONDON
REUTER'S Agency reports that Baron de Courcel, the retiring French Ambassador in London, has suggested conditions under which orders will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Office
Mr. George Wyndham. M.P., has been appointedly to succeed to Hon. St. John F. Brodrick a s Under Secretary for War…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French Naval Activity. the Fleets Prepared for War. London
The Parisian newspapers report that a state of feverish activity prevails in naval circles at the ports of Brest, Cherbourg, and Toulon. La Temps states that the operations are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Peace at Pay Price. a Policy Chat Begets War
LONDON, Sunday,—The E[?] of Rosebery was yesterday preson[?] ed with the freedom of Perth by the corporation of that burgh…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Britain and France. War Risks. France Backing Down. Lieutenant Baratier Honoured. London, Oct, 26
Lloyd's are insuring against war risks at the rate of 20 guineas per cent. It is believed in French semi-official circles that France rode for a fall, and that Baron de Courcel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain and France. England Takes a Stand. Vigorous Preparations for War. British Liners Ordered to be Ready. LONDON
A Blue Book has been issued which utterlv refutes the statements contained in the French Yellow Book issued yesterday. Lord Salisbury, it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Cloud
SIR.—The present European outlook is causing great anxiety and consternation in the minds of thousands of the people throughout the Australian colonies and abroad. The gloomy complications…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonial Troops and War
Mr. Schreiner, the Cape Premier, states communications have been exchanged with the Imperial Government relative to the steps to be taken in the event of war with an European Power…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Situation in China. Outrages on British Subjects. Attacks by Chinese Soldiers. British Demand for Redress. LONDON
A mob of Chinese soldiers attacked a British officer, a railway engineer, and the Chinese Secretary to the British Legation at Pekin. Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Scare
Considerable disappointment is felt by fire eating federalists at the more pacific aspect of the Fashoda embroglio. One section thought that the fear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British Soldier
Conan Doyle, after spending a week near the Blandford encampment of 25,000 men, writes in the Speaker:—And after all this talk about the boy soldier in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late News by Cable. London, Nov. 2. America and Spain—a Renewal of the War Threatened
The Spanish Peace Commissioners in Paris profess to be astounded at the action of the United States in claiming the Philippines, and they refer to the possibility of a rupture in the peace…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The British Soldier
Conan Doyle, after spending a week near the Blandford encampment of 25,000 men, writes in the Speaker:— And, after all, this talk about the boy soldier in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Great Britain and France. Press Criticisms. Major Marchand and the Khalifa. Naval Preparations. Mobilisation of British Troops. New Sloops of War. London, Nov. 7
The Russian newspapers approve of the withdrawal of the French from Fashoda. The French press displays a bitter tone against Britain. Some of the journals attack the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New War Sloops. LONDON
MesarsLaird Brothers, of Bi kenhead, are building for the [?] two [?] of war of the Con[?]of 960 tons [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News by Cable. The War Preparations. LONDON
The public are [?] as to the object of the British war preparations. The British coast forts and the foreign station have been [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Incident of the Afghan War
Just before daybreak on the morning of the 2nd December, 1878, when the troops under General Roberts were about to attack the Peiwar Kotal, the men of the 8th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →England and France the Probable Result of a War
"Are the French." asks the London "Spectator," [?] likely to rush into such [?] st[?]gg[?]s without all[?], for all[?]s t[?]y would certainly not have? We…
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