The Philippine War
News from Manila states that the Americans bombarded and captured Ilo Ilo, the capital of the Island of Pansy, on the 11th instant. The insurgents set fire to the town before evacuating the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1899
637 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 32
Turkey Massing Soldiers
Turkey has 200,000 troops in Europe, the half of them in Macedonia and the frontier of Montenegro. A great meeting of Albanian Moslem chiefs offered the Sultan 100,000 men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Church-Building Soldiers
As a rule soldiers are destructive rather than constructive, and although now and again they leave a land richer in the way of roads and forts, it is not to the soldiers or to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Melee in the Street. a Young Man Seriously Wounded. Alleged Assailant Arrested. Sydney
A young man named Herbert "Pym, aged 22, a bottle dealer, was admitted to Manly Cotttage Hospital at ono o'clock this morning suffering from a rather serious wound on the right side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late War
Compos and other generals demand that a parliamentary enquiry should be held into their conduct during the late Spanish-American war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cuban War
Count von Bulow, chancellor of the Exchequer, states that German subjects in Cuba claim 4,300,000 marks as recompense for damages incurred during the war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late American-spanish War
General Toral, a military prisoner, is awaiting his trial in connection with the capitulation of Santiago…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chinese Enlistment
The Tsung Li Yamen has objected to Chinese enlisting at Wei hai-wei subject to service abroad…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Deter[?]d Soldier
A striking story is going the rounds concerning an officer who, being refused leave to go with the Chitral expedition, obtained live days' leave to go…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Determined Soldier
A striking story is going the rounds concerning an officer who being refused leave to go with the Chitral expedition, obtained five days' leave to go…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A War Vessel Launched
The Implacable has been safely launched at Devonport…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mortality in the War
The official statement of American losses in the late War is 320 killed in action 125, died of wounds, 5277 of disease…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Facts About Soldiers
A curious regimental custom is now in vogue with one English regiment. The captain and subaltern of the day always sit down to mess with their swords on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Value of War
Mr. H. F. Wyatt takes high ground in his paper on "War as the Supreme Test of National Value," in the February Nineteenth Century. This is a very able and philosophical estimate of the function of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collecting War Material
Great Britain has ordered a hundred thousand Hotehkies shell fuses at Birmingham…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Value of War
Mr. H. F. Wyatt takes high ground in his paper on "War as the Supreme Test of National Value," in the February Nineteenth Century. This is a very able and philosophical estimate of the function of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →England's War Preparations. LONDON
The British Government have ordered 100,000 Hotchkiss shell fuses from the Birmingham manufacturers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Soldier's Impudence
The Sketch of London tolls how two soldiers at Aldershot, a sentry and a non-commissioned officer, did their best go get even with each other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lockroy's Semi-Declaration of War. France, the Tool of Russia
" We have licked the French before, boyo, And so we can, and so we can again, boys."—Old long. [BY GEO. C. CRAIG, AUTHOR OF "FEDERAL…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Prevention of War
The Hon. St. John Brodrick, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated in the House of Commons last night that the Government intended to use its beat efforts at the Czar's peace conference to…
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