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The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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A Tale of the Boer War

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 3

The following narrative comes from a well known officer. Sometime in the year 1901 a certain regiment or Irish yeomanry…

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Fighting in Hayti. Many Killed and Wounded. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

Serious fighting has again taken place in the Republic of HaytiTroops outside Puerto Plata defeated and dispersed the fugitive…

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Federal Band Welcome Home Committee

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 3

The final meeting of the committee which organised and arranged the welcome home to the Federal Band, after their successful participation in the band contests at…

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What War-Money Might Do

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 3

THE South African war cost the British Government £250,000,000 and an ingenious gentleman with a turn for figures—Mr. F. W. Hirst, of London…

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War Cloud in Europe

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 3

[?]rmans in Denmark and Switzerland who liable to military service have been ordered to be in readiness to return home. [?]ere is considerably anxiety on the…

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Ex-arch Duke As Recruit. Completes His Course As an Ordinary Soldier

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 4

After holding the rank of General in the Austrian Army and being known as a good strategist, the ex-Archduke Leopold, who gave up his position in…

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Ex-arch Duke As Recruit. Completes His Course As an Ordinary Soldier

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 6

After holding the rank of General in the Austrian Army and being known as a good strategist, the ex-Archduke Leopold, who gave up his position in…

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My Soldier Boy. a Brilliant Love Story. Chapter I.

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 9

"And then—My father stopped. Hiss fingers touched ny hair caressingly while I knelt beside him. "The she left you," I finished the…

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Summoning National Douma. Conflict between Cossacks and Soldiers. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 4

Count Witte has informed a deputation that the National Douma will probably assemble oon April 24th. The Council of the Empire will be…

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Russian Revolution a Governor Wounded A Huge Deficit LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 4

Reuter's correspondent reports that the explosion of two bombs seriously wounded M. Khuostoff, the Governor of Chernigoff, Little Russia,…

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Stones As Weapons Op War

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 5

It has been reported that on more than one occasion the Russians and, Japanese have actually pelted each othe[?] with stones. The "Regiment" points…

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Science and Invention. Japan's War on Disease. What Sanitary Precaution' Have Done For Her Armies

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 5

"Typhoid, that dread scourge of soldiers, has been almost eliminated from the Japanese army in the present war," writes Anita Newcomb McGee in the…

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My Soldier Boy. a Brilliant Love Story. Chapter Ii. My Hatred Grows

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 9

It almost spoiled the pleasure of my journey to see Mr. Delsarte at the station when we drove in from Kilrood, Could be never let us have any peace? Were we always to be…

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The War Office

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 January 1906 · page 5

The British War Office will rearm the whole of the coast defence forts from the Thames to Plymouth with 6 and 9 inch guns, and the Medical Corps will be increased…

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The Continental War Scare. (Block per favor of the Literary Digest, N. Y.)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 January 1906 · page 6

During the past few months the Continental papers have been trying to promote a war scare between Germany and France which might involve England. The erman "Wahre Jacob" (Stuttgart) aptly portrays the situation, thus:…

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Our Ten Years' War Bill.—is the Game Worth the Candle?

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

In a pamphlet issued by the Speaker publishing Co., Mr. F. W. Hirst gives some very telling illustrations of the manner of the expenditure of £250,000,000—the sum spent in…

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The Continental War Scare. (Block per favor of the Literary Digest, N.y.)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

During the past few months the Continental papers have been trying to promote a war scare between Germany and France which might involve England. The erman, "Wahre Jacob" (Stuttgart) aptly portrays the situation, thus:…

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My Soldier Boy. a Brilliant Love Story Chapter Iii. the [?] in the Locket

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 9

I don't know why I watched the man. He seemed to fascinate me, and I am sure that I saw his eyes following me as 1 moved about. Presently the men were dismissed, and there was a lull in…

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South African Pay Soldiers' Claims Upheld

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

The report of Judge Murray, who in March last was appointed a Boyal Commission of Inquiry into the claims of members of the New South Wales…

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A General Wounded. Threat of Murder. Plot Against De Witte. LONDON, Saturday Afternoon

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 4

News from Vladivostock states that a number of sailors and some artillerymen mutinied. The mutineers used quick-firers and rifles. General…

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