The Sisters of Mercy and the Boer War. Honor to Whom Honor in Due
A CORRESPONDENT writes: It has been tersely said that the world knows little of its greatest benefactors, and I therefore request you to give publicity…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1903
190 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 10
A Soldier's Risks
A soldier of Marshal Saxo's army being discovered in a theft was condemned to be hanged. What he had stolen might be worth about 5s. The marshal, meeting him as he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia and Japan. The Question of War. LONDON
DEPLOMATISTS at Pekin consider that the grayest factor in the situation in the Far East is the increasing danger of a war between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Launch of a War Ship
The battleship Edward the Seventh has been launched at Devonport. The Princess of Wales performed the ceremony of naming the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rumours of War. Russia Actively Preparing. Trouble Feared in the Far East. the United States. London, July 25
Advices from Niu-chwang state that trains crowded with troops, ammunition, guns, and food-stuffs, are hurrying towards Dalny and Port Arthur. It is also stated on the same authority that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Russian Activity. Preparations for War. London
ADVICES form Newchwang state that trains crowded with troops, ammunition guns, and foodstuffs are hurrying towards Dalny and Port Arthur,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Hourly Imminent. Between Russia and Japan Railway Line Being Fortified. London, July 25
The crisis in regard to Manchuria and Cores has reached an alarming stage. Advices from Newchwang report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Soldier's Tragedy
A terrible tragedy has occurred to a Hungarian regiment. 800 strong, manoeuvring in Herzegovian. The heat in the sun was 115. Fahr. Half of the regiment collapsed through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rumours of War. Trouble Foared in the Far East. LONDON, July 25
Advices from Niu chwang state that trains crowded with troops, ammuni tion, guns, and foodstuffs, are hurrying towards Dalny and Port Arthur. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deaths From Sunstroke. Suffering of Soldiers London
While 800 Hungarian infantry were manoeuvring in Herzegovina, with the bent in the sun at 115deg Fab. half of the regiment collapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Far East. War a Long Way Off London, July 28
Viscount Hayashi, the Japanese Minister at London, in the course of an interview, said that war between Russia and Japan was a very long way…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Extinct Soldiery
The Janissaries are an extinct religious soldiery of Christian profession who for centuries took part in the intrigues and wars of the Ottoman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Fleet of War Balloons
General Andre, the French Minister of War, has accepted the offer of M. Santos Dumont to place an aerial flotilla at the service of the Republic in the event of war. Two officers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russia and Japan. The Probabilities of War. LONDON
GENERAL KUROPATKIN, the Russian Minister for War, interviewed at St Petersburg, stated that war between Russia and Japan in the near future…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rumours of War with Russia. Active Preparations. Trouble Feared in the Far East. the United States. London, July 24
Officials at Washington consider that [?] refusal of Prince Ching, the Chinese Fora Minister, to accede to the request of Mr. E. H. Conger, the American Minister at [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Machinery of the Modern War Ship
IN a speech recently before the House of Commons, dealing with the education of naval officers, Mr. Arnold Foster quoted a distinguished naval…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rumors of War. Port Arthur, July 9
High officials strongly deprecate, the war talk, which is rife among, the lower officers and civilians. All who talk of war profess to despise Japan as an antagonist…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Supplies
Mr. E. Burney Young, manager of the South 'Australian wine and produce department, London, has obtained a large contrast from the War Office for the supply of Con[?] corned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Why Soldiers Wear Red
The scarlet uniform of the British infantry has been greatly criticised in recent years, chiefly on the ground that it exposes the men to needless danger…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →United Stater Secretary of War
Mr. Taft has been appointed Secretary of War in the Cabinet ut Washington…
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