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The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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The Cuban Revolt. [?]Intervention Resented. [?] War Threatened. London, Sept. 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 September 1906 · page 5

[?] far outnumber the forces [?] Palma, but the latter are bet[?] and equipped. [?] strongly resist intervention in…

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Dutch Colonial War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 September 1906 · page 3

[?] is reported from Bali, east the Dutch engaging the Rajah[?] in his lat stronghold. The [?] Victorious, capturing the…

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War Stores Scandals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 September 1906 · page 2

The report of the War Stores Commission published a fortnight ago showed the most lamentable ineptitude on the part of the war Department and those officer who…

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[?]Racial War in America

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 September 1906 · page 3

[?]usand negroes of Brownsville have [?]arms to retaliate on the whites. [?] closely watching Clark Univer[?]nsville, where there are 400 negro…

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My Soldier Boy. a Brilliant Love Story. Chapter Xlv. "Welcome Home, My Darling."

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 9

wolf's Craig once more; not as I had first looking at it, in the gloom of a chill evening, with only here and there a light showing, and everything dirty and ill-kept, and rude…

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Dutch Colonial War

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 2

Heavy fighting is reported from Bali, cast of Java, the Dutch engaging the Rajah of Badoengs in his last stronghold. The Dutch were victorious, capturing the…

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Sad Gun Accident. Boy Kills His Baby, Brother. a Sister Severely Wounded, Narrandera

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 5

'A lamentable shooting fatality occurred here yesterday afternoon. A lad named Roland McKay went to his father's Big Plain station with a pea rifle rabbit-shooting…

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The South African War. the Official History

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 4

The London "Express" of 10th July wrote:— The South African war ended on the 31st May, 1902. To-day, after a…

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By [?]Mpering with War Plans

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 5

[?] of Engineers, at St. Petersburg. [?]sted in connection with the sale [?]lant plans for frontier defence to [?] foreign Power…

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Echo of the Tobacco War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 3

[?] Limited, formerly tobacco manu[?] who promised to pay a bonus to [?] have paid £90,000 to settle [?] gainst them for the bonus…

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War Store Scandals

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 4

The report of the War Store Commission publised a fortnight ago (says the London correspondent of the Argus) showed the most lamentable ineptitude…

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Revolutionary Troops. Russian Soldiery's Secret Meetings. Refuse to Be Executions. London, Oct. 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 3

Reuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that it reported that the troops comprising the garrison at Kronstadt have intimated to the Government that they will…

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War Stores Scandals

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 7

The report of the War Stores Commission published a fortnight ago showed the most lamentable ineptitude on the part of the war Department and those officers who…

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The Next Great War Prophecies by Sir Hiram Maxim

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 4

"The wars of the future will be fought in the air. The chief weapon used will undoubtedly be something in the nature of an aerial torpedo…

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Turmoil in Russia. War Against the Jews. The Dum's Limitations. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 7

Jews at Odessa are panic-stricken owing to M. Dubrovin, President of the Union of the Russian people (Black Hundred), inciting 300 of his followers…

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Battle with Wolves. Soldiers' Fight in a Forest

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 6

Thrilling details (wrote the Berlin correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" on 20th July) have reached Berlin of a fierce- midnight battle between pack…

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War Stores Scandals. Lieutenant-colonel Removed. Two Colonels Retired. London, Oct. 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 October 1906 · page 5

The Army Council has considered the report of the Royal Commission on War Stores in South Africa. The Army Council has decided that no…

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The South African War. the Official History

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 6

The London Express of 10th July wrote:— The South African war ended on the 31st May, 1902. To-day, after…

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Bezebrazoff. Favourite of the Tsar., the Man Who Made War

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 4

When the history of the Russo-Japanese war comes to be written it will be found to have been the work of one man—M. Bezobrazoff…

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War Stores Scandals. Two Colonels Retired. London, Oct, 16

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 2

The Array Council has considered the report of the Royal Commission on War Stores in South Africa. The Army Council has decided that no…

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