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The wars & local soldiers, 1910

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Japan' S Little War Tokio

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 August 1910 · page 2

Serious fighting continues in Formosa between the Japanese and Formosans. The Japanese have captured Shimeasta mountain. The Japs. were driven back…

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Training Cadets. New Method of War Office. London, Aug. 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 August 1910 · page 3

[?] Dundonald formerly commander of the [?]dian militia, interviewed on the subject of [?] War Office memorandum of cadet training, [?] carefully discourages military training of…

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CHAPTER X.—(Continued). a Council of War

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 August 1910 · page 6

"No, we'll not spare her!" The McMurrough chimed in. "She's heels to her, and it's a godsend she'll be to us if things go ill."…

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Aeroplanes in War. French Preparations. London, Monday night

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 August 1910 · page 5

The French Minister for War is forming a legion of aviators and is ordering 50 aeroplanes. He is also asking for a credit for the aeroplane service of two million franes for 1911…

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Death of Miss Florence Nightingale The First War Nurse. London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 18 August 1910 · page 4

Miss Florence Nightingale died in London yesterday from heart failure. She was in her 91st year. Miss Night ingale organised the nursing during the…

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The Death of Miss Florence Nightingale. the First War Nurse. London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 2

IT was the strongly-expressed wish of Miss Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse, whose death is announced, that her funeral should be as quiet as possible…

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The Deadly Submarine in War. Is It Worth While?

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 15

Certain critics of naval matters have condemned the Dreadnought as being an enormously costly engine of war that would be sunk us to much useless scrap-iron by the tiny and…

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Aeroplanes in War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 August 1910 · page 3

The French Government is considering the question of installing airships and aeroplanes at the naval stations of Cherbourg, Brest, and Toulon, at Bizerta, in Tunis, besides on the eastern…

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A Wounded Mayor

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1910 · page 5

Mr. Gaynor, Mayor of New York, who was shot by Gallagher, a dismissed municipal employee, is progressing…

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Anglo-german War Predicted (By Cable). Berlin

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 August 1910 · page 2

An Anglo-German war is predicted by Professor Emil Reich of Berlin, who declares that the antagonism between Britain and Germany can be terminated…

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The Deadly Submarine in War. Is It Worth While?

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1910 · page 6

Certain critics of naval matters have condemned the Dreadnought as being an enormously costly engine of war that would be sunk as so much useless scrap-iron by the tiny and…

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Disaster to a War Vessel

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 August 1910 · page 2

A great hole was knocked in the side of H M S. Bedford, which went ashore in Japanese waters. 18 sailors were drowned when the engine room filled…

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Tipsy German Soldiers. Attack on Officer. London, Thursday, afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 August 1910 · page 5

Eighty German soldiers, after drinking heavily at an inn at Kaltenhausen, attacked their officer who was attempting to restore order, and inflicted serious injury upon him. The men…

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Airships in War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 5

In order to ascertain the value of aeroplanes and airships in army work the Army Council has invited prominent airmen, including Captain Dickson, to participate in the military…

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National Views of War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 4

The London "Spectator," which writes very sanely and very strongly on the necessity for constant vigilance to keep up an edequate defence of Great Britain by land and by sea, has…

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Uniform for Citizen Soldiery. The Probable Patterns

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 2

The Defence Department is now con sidering the class of uniform to be adopt ed for the new citizen soldiery. Several kinds—all of khaki-colored cloth -have…

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Airship in War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 August 1910 · page 7

We must reckon with the fact that in favour able to weather the dirigible soon will, if it cannot already, out strip the fastest warship afloat. So long as the ship has no armament which will…

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War Material Cargoes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 August 1910 · page 5

The amount of war material being carried to the Near East has aroused the comment of underwriters. A big shipment of explosives has left the Tyne the Piraeus, Greece and a…

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The Gorse Hall Murder. an Ex-soldier London, Tuesday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 August 1910 · page 5

Mark Wilde an ex-soldier, who was detained [?] Knutsford prison, ford which he has just [?]en discharged is reported to strongly resembles Cornelius Howard, who on March 5th last…

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Veteran Soldier Dead. London, Wednesday morning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 August 1910 · page 5

The death is announced, at the age of 68, of Charles B. Euan-Smith who entered the Indian Army in 1859 and among his appointments has held the position of…

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