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The wars & local soldiers, 1899

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War Prepapations in France. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 March 1899 · page 2

Six batteries of artillery, with the newest guns, hare been sent to Calais. The French authorities are feverishly arming the new defence works along…

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Attending the Wounded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 March 1899 · page 3

The cruiser Powerful's surgeons attended the American soldiers wounded during the recent battle with the Filipines…

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Meat for American Soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 March 1899 · page 3

The American public are incensed at Messrs. Alger and Engan's position in the Commissary General owing to Colonel Rooseveldt's statement before the Beef Commission that the meat supplied…

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The Philippine War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 March 1899 · page 3

Further particulars of the fighting on Sunday state that the Filipinos trenches were connected with gullies by hidden paths in the canebush, and diagonal rows, loopheled, covered the trenches on…

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Americans Killed and Wounded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 March 1899 · page 3

One hundred and fifty-seven Americans have been killed, and eight hundred and sixty-four wounded in the Philippines during February and March…

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The Philippine War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 March 1899 · page 3

The New York correspondent of the Times says that the fighting capacity of the Filipines surprises everybody, and he adds that the Filipinos are winning,the respect of the Americans, The American…

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The Philippine War. Desperate Fighting. Heavy Filipino Losses. London, March. 27

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1899 · page 4

THE thickness of the jungle and the excessive heat hampered the attack on Saturday of the Americans upon the insurgent trenches…

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The War in Samoa. Bombardment of Mataafa's Stronghold. Three British Sailors Killed. British and American Warships Co-operating. , Auckland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 March 1899 · page 3

News from Samoa was received to-night to the effect that further fighting has occurred there. Mataafa'e villages have been shelled by the English and American. warships. A force of American and…

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The Filipino War 12,000 People Engaged. Determined American Advance. Two Hundred Filipinos Killed. The Town of Malabon Fired. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 March 1899 · page 3

Major-General Elwell S. Otis, reports to the United States Govern, ment that in the engagement in the vicinity of Manila some 12,000…

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War Secrets Revealed

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 4

Mr. Woodford, the former American Minister at Madrid, mede come interesting disclosures of war secrets in an informal speech at the New York Army any Navy…

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The Philippine War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 3

The South Dakota Regiment on Monday crossed the open in brilliant style and charged the Filipinos in the thickets' beyond Tarilae, to the north of Manila. The guns of the Utah…

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The War in Samoa

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 3

The Daily Chronicle says time Germany must recall her Consul-General in Samos, or quit the protectorate. The Standard anticipates that the…

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The War in Samoa. Auckland

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 5

News from Samoa was received to-night to the effect that further fighting has occurred there. Matasfa'a villages have been shelled by the English and American warships. A force of American and…

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Pleasantries and Fancies a Soldier's Impudence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 13

Two soldiers at Aldershot, a sentry and a non-commissioned officer, did their best to get even with each other. The officer had a visit from his sweetheart…

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Late News by Cable. London, April 1. the Philippine War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1899 · page 3

Latest advices from Manila state that Aquinalde is retreating to the mountains. The American troops will not pursue him, as the rainy season has set in…

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The Philippine War. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 April 1899 · page 3

Further heavy fighting has occurred between the American troops and the Filipinos. The rebels suffered another roverse at Malolos, their headquarters…

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Just Heard of the War

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 April 1899 · page 1
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Odd people live in some of the remote pa[?]ts of this section of the State, says a Charleston correspondent of the " New York Sun." Illiterate, they take no interest in mails,…

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Taken in War

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1899 · page 3

THE Colonel came home upon leave—the only leave spent…

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War Ends Every Century

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1899 · page 1

It is a curious fact, however little real significance it may have, that regularly, since and including the close of the eleventh century, each…

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