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The wars & local soldiers, 1902

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The Barton Airship. War Office Order for the Latest Invention

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 22 November 1902 · page 3
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

Dr. Barton, of Beckenham, who for the past 20 years has been experimenting with airships, gave a lecture recently before the Aeronautic…

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The Franco-siamese Convention Risking a Great War. LONDON, Thrusday

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 November 1902 · page 4

THE Temps, the Paris newspaper, in defending the convention concluduced between France and Siam against the attacks of the colonial party, reveals…

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A Burglar Shot. Wounded in Two Places

Singleton Argus · Thursday 27 November 1902 · page 2

MR GEORGE BERNARD, a well-known city auctioncer, residing in Crystalstreet, Petersbam, bad a somewhat sensational cencounted with a soppo[?]d…

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A Sentence of Twelve Months. Mali[?] Wounded. [By Cable]. London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 November 1902 · page 4

MR KHLEE, chairman of the committee managing the strike at Mond's nickel works, Swansea has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment…

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Letter to the Editor. the Barton War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 December 1902 · page 4

SIR,—I greatly regret that I was not able to attend Sir Edmund's meeting on Monday week to have recorded my vote against the vote of confidence; but I am delighted at the tone of your…

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The War Commission

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 December 1902 · page 3

The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the conduct of the war, yesterday examined Major Sir A. P. Douglass, Staff Officer of Artillery, New Zealand, contingents,…

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The War Commission

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 5

At yesterday's sitting of the Commission appointed to inquire into the war in South Africa, Earl: Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, was examined…

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Colonial Memorial of the War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 5

An application has been made to tho Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral to have erected in the Cathedral a memorial to the 6000 colonials killed in the into war in South Africa…

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Ona Chinese e Man of War

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 1

Lieutenant-Your most noble Green-jacketuess, the Japanese ships are ap-proaching. His Green jacketness-Then fire a…

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On a Chinese Man of War

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 1

Lieutenant—Your most noble Greenjacketness, the Japanese ships are approaching. His Greenjacketness—Then fire a…

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Chapter Xviii. Walkulla, This Man-of-war

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 1

The match went out. Darkness again hold away in that prison lodge in the heart of the Zambodi kraal. The shouts and cries of…

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England and the Colonies. What Would Happen in War Time

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 6

The recent conference between Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the colonial Premiers, excited much interest in Europe The London correspondent…

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The Lass That Loved a Soldier

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 4

There was war in India, and the 2nd Battulion of the Lancashire Fusiliers had been ordered to the scene of action. Eugenie Fairfax squeezed a few tears to the…

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Reservists and Time—expired Soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 December 1902 · page 3

An influential meeting was held in London yesterday to impress upon employers the crying needs of seventy thousand reservists and time-expired soldiers who are now idle. The Duke of Fife…

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Another War. Venezuela and the Powers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.—The members of the German and British Legations have left the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and embarked on the warships…

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England and the Colonies. What Would Happen in War Time

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 13

The recent conference between Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Colonial Premiers, excited much interest in Europe. The London correspondent…

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From South Africa. British Soldiers Under Fire

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 5
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Already the Pom-pom is trotting out of the farmhouse enclosure and the squadron of Dragoons extending on the plain beyond. The face of…

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Women in War

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 23 December 1902 · page 6

Fighting women are no novelty, either in the pages of the mythological legend or in the stirrng volumes of history, for they have existed from time…

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