Mortality in War. Some Figures
The conditions of warfare differ so great that no exact inference can necessarily be drawn from past statistics as to the mortality likely to prevail in any particular…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1903
190 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 10
Wounded in Battle
VERY few people, when talking to a soldier, says the Brussels La Revue Rose, who has been woundod in battle, fail to ask him what his toolings were when hit: every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Pretoriariot. Soldiers Sentenced to Death. LONDON
At the end ox March a riot occurred at Pretoria among soldiers of the 2nd Leinsters owing to the detention of a corporal in the guardroom…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poetry. Killed in Action
Oh, Laddie: I fancy I see you now As you slowly rode away, Down the long avenue 'neath the elms, 'Mid the cool grey shadows of early day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Women and War. Mrs. De La Rey's Adventures
Probably most people have read by this time all they intend to read of books dealing with the South African war and its manifold phases. Still, a very special interest attaches…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Women and War. Mrs. De La Rey's Adventures
Probably most people have read by this time all they intend to read of books dealing with the South African war and its manifold phases. Still, a very special interest attaches…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stories of Some Famous Men. in Peace and War
The names of Sir Donald Carrie and Mr. Rider Haggard are frequently associated with South Africa in the public mind, the one commercially and other in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late News by Cable. London, May 12 Claims of Colonial Soldiers
Surgeon-Major Bakewell. of New Zealand, has re[?] his statement in the "Times" that the War office has still before it unsettled claims of colonial soldiers who served in South Africa. Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Chinese War Indemnity. Clinging to the Cash. [By Cable.] London
CHINA is evading the intentions of the protocol and has finally declined, to pay the indemnity, to the Great Powers in gold, and insists that, if…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fate of a War Balloon
During the slege of Paris in the Franco-German war no less than sixty-four balloons made their ascent from the capital. Out of this number only two "came to grief." One…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Song of the Climean War
"Annie Laurie" was the song in vogus during the Crimean war, and the circumstance it recalled by the following verses which are published in the London Press:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Souvenirs of War. The Marechale MacMahon
The marriage of Mme. de MacMohon, who died the other day in Paris, was a made-up one. Her uncle was in the early years of MacMahon's career in Algeria, his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russian Troops on a War Footing
Fifty thousand Russian troops in the Odessa district are on a war footing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pay of Soldiers in South AFrica. the Question Before the Court
The Full Court on Thursday had before it an application for a stay of proceedings in a case in which John Howarth sued Critchett Walker, as nominal defendant, for the State Government, to recover £97…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pay of Soldiers in South Africa. the Question Before Tee Court
The Full Court on Thursday had before it an application for a stay of proceedings in a case in which John Howarth sued [?] Walker, as nominal defendant, for the State Government to recover £97…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After the War
According to the London Daily Mail, large quantities of infected blankets from South Africa have reached England, and a number of them have found their way to Whitechapel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →England and America. War a Crime. LONDON
SPEAKING at a banquet given by the Now York Society of Pilgrims to Sir Michael. Herbert, the British Ambassador to Washington, Mr Elihu…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Champagne in War
When a submarine torpedo-boat is about to deliver her attack she must rise close enough to the surface of the sea in which she is submerged to make a fresh…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Moorish Rebellion. Ghastly War Trophies. [By Cable.] London
THE Meerish troops brought into Fez, the capital, 25 heads of members of the Kabyle tribe, and also 200 Kavle prisoners…
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