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The wars & local soldiers, 1910

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Awful Railway Smash. Forty-five Killed, Twenty-one Wounded. London, March 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 March 1910 · page 5

While a train at Marshalltown, I owe (U.S.A), was taking a curve at high speed, it became derailed. When the train left the mails the sleeping carriage and the…

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Politics and Soldiery. Mr. Roosevelt Warns Egyptian Officers. London. March 21

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 March 1910 · page 3

Mr. Roosevelt (ex-President of the U.S.A.) visited the Island of Philae, in Upper Egypt, and inspected the remains of the temples, obelisks, and other ancient…

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French Criminal Soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1910 · page 3

The French Senate has passed a bill excluding criminal convicts from the home army…

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Very Latest Cables. British Soldiers at Gibraltar. Victims of Hymrophoble. London, Sunday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1910 · page 3

Two soldiers belonging to the Noriolk regiment at Gibrafter were bitten by a mad dog last September. Both were taken to the pasteur Institute, Paris,…

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Battle with Lynchers. One Killed, Three Wounded in Attack on a Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1910 · page 4

A New York message dated, February 13 says:—Cairo, a thriving town of Illinois, was the scene last night of a sanguinacy battle…

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Fatalities on a War Ship

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 March 1910 · page 5

Admiral Hubbard reports that an accident is occurred on the United States crusier charleston at Olongapo Island. Owing to the premature discharge of a charge in a…

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The Soldiers' Peril

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 March 1910 · page 7

Laukhard was a soldier in the campaign of the Duke of Brunswick against France in 1792, and he took part in the terrible retreat from Valley which completed the ruin of the…

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Military Mishap in South Africa Four Soldiers Drowned. London, Tuesday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 March 1910 · page 5

A company of 600 men of the Wiltshire Regiment accompanying Lord Methuen left Pietermaritzburg, to surprise a militia camp. A storm caused a spruit to rise…

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War Scare. Germany's Financial Difficulties

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 6

The task of the new German Chancellor is likely to prove a very difficult one. The question of finance in Berlin, as in London, governs the situation, and…

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War Scare. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 4

Another war scare has arisen regard ing the departure of a Gorman squadron for the North Seas. It is looked upon as another stop in Germany's…

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Very Latest Cables. Ecuador and Peru. War Threatened. London, Wednesday Afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 April 1910 · page 3

Anti-Peruvian riots at Ecuador having threatened to precipitate war, King Allouse, who is sting as arbitrator in the bounlary dispotte between Ecuador and Peru, has onjoined the…

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Peru and Ecuador. War Talk and Preparation. Forces Mobilised. (By Cable). Vancouver

Singleton Argus · Thursday 7 April 1910 · page 2

The attacks made upon the Peruvian Consulate by the populace in Ecuador have aroused intense indignation in the former republic. The likelihood of war…

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Another "Dogger." Russians Fire on British Vessel. Engineer Wounded

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 3

The meeting of the Tear and the Kaiser in the Baltic on June 16 was characterised, according to telegrams received in London, by an extraordinary incident, the…

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Late by News Wire. Sydney, Friday Afternoon. Rowdy Soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 5

Leslie Livermore and Thomas Keane, both gunners of the Royal Australian Artillery, were charged at the police court to-day with assaulting Constable Newton, also with being drunk…

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Class War

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 3

"An effort is being made, from end to end of the continent, not by genuine working men, but by people who are fattening upon the; laboring classes, to…

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War Scare. Germany’s Financial Difficulties

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 3

The task of the new German Chan[?] to prove a very difficult [?] of finance in Berlin, [?] the situation, and…

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Popular Fallacies About War Why Germany Will Not Attack Great Britain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 April 1910 · page 7

It is generally supposed that commercial and economic rivalry and ambition will furnish thus ground or the pretext for any war that may be wagged in modern Europe…

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Soldiers' Love of Animals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1910 · page 6

The British soldier always has a soft corner in his heart for animals of all sorts, and a regiment without its complement of these would be almost like a regiment…

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SOLDIERS v. POLICE

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 April 1910 · page 1

Leslie Livermere and Thomas Keane, two young gunners in the Royal Austra lian Artillery, were before Mr Love, D.S.M., at the Central Police Court,…

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A Tragic Story of the Boer War

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 3

Six years ago there was enacted in Pretoria a tragedy that would have created immense excitement, in England had not the mind of the British public been…

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