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The wars & local soldiers, 1907

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American War Material

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 November 1907 · page 5

Rear-Admiral Mason, reporting to the U.S. Bureau of Ordnance, urges passing of legislation authorising purchases of ordnance projectiles, and power torpedoes abroad, owing to the…

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Russian War Payment

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 November 1907 · page 5

The Russian Ambassador in London has handed to the Japanese Ambassador a cheque for £4.860,440, balance due for maintenance of prisoners. The money remains in the Bank…

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Balkans Racial War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 5

[?]tendered Bulgarians attacked the Mace[?] village of Otachnitza and killed four [?] Turkish troops pursued the maraud[?] and killed 50 of them…

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Exciting Affray. Ex-constable Wounded. Pluckily Arrests His Assailant. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 5

Ex-constable William Stapleton was wounded this morning at Redfern When seen shortly after the occurrence he said he was doing a little work in his garden at the rear of his…

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War of the Tiger—hunters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 16

Mr. F. A. McKenzie, special correspondent of the London "Daily Mail," writing from Seoul (Korea), Sept. 6, says:— The uprising in Korea against the…

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Exciting Affray. Ex-constable Wounded. Pluckily Arrests His Assailant. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 13

Ex-constable William Stapleton was wounded this morning at Redfern. When seen shortly after the occurrence he said he was doing a little work in his garden at the rear of his…

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Late News by Cable. London, Dec. 9. a Tobacco War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 3

A tobacco war is raging between growers and dealers at Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Four hundred armed and masked men attacked the city, imprisoned all the police and the fireman…

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A Tobacco War. Lawlessness in Kentucky. London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 December 1907 · page 1

A tobacco war is raging between the growers and dealers of Hopskinsville, Kentucky. Armed and masked men, numbering 400, attacked the city,…

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Peeps into Futurity. The New Rules of War

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 4

The following native on certain aspects of the military question is from Hatchard's "Books of To-day":— 1. Each army shall appoint an umpire…

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Ping War and Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 December 1907 · page 6

The Christmas trade is well catered for at Messrs. Ping War and Company, at the corner of Rose and High Streets. In the grocery department all the leading lines are stocked. Arnott's…

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Rising in Teheran. Rival Factions at War. London, Dec, 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 3

An outbreak among the people has occurred at Teheran, the capital of Persin Fighting has occurred between the Nationalists and Royalists, and the city is in' a state of siego…

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War Against Modernism

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 December 1907 · page 5

The Pope, at an allocation of the Consistory on the occasion of the creation of four cardinals, including the Archbishop of Rheims and the Archbishop of Marseilles, deplored "the disastrous…

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Rising in Persia. Rival Factions at War. London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 1

An outbreak among the people has occurred at Teheran, the capital of Persia. Fighting has occurred between the Nationalists and Royalists, and the…

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Rivals of the British Navy. War Minister's Pessimism. London, Dec. 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 3

Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, in the course of a speech at Haley said that a time might come when it would not be so easy as to-day to command the…

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Germany's Little War. Another South African Danger

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 4

Considering that a long and bloody war of no small magnitude has been raging far nearly two yearn on our South African border, it is remarkable how little public…

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Ping War and Company

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 6

The Christmas trade is well catered for at Messrs. Ping War and Company, at the corner of Rose and High Streets. In the grocery department all the leading lines are stocked. Arnott's…

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Rising in Teheran. Rival Factions at War. London, Dec. 16

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 11

An outbreak among the people has occurred at Teheran, the capital of Persia. Fighting has occurred between the Nationalists and Royalists, and the city is in a state of siege…

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Speak Pakeha—live or Die. an Incident in the Maori War. (Copyright.)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 December 1907 · page 1

We Australians, with few exceptions. as yet know little of those twin islands, sea girt by the Pacific, lying some few hundred miles South…

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Prospects of War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 December 1907 · page 3

The Japanese Government is determined rigorously to restrict the number of emigrants to Canada and the United States. Jingoist newspapers in the United States are…

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