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The wars & local soldiers, 1912

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Turco-italian War. Blockade of Rhodes. Rome

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 2

[?]des has been blockaded and six officials, five military officers and 116 soldiers captured and sent to Italy. The Italians destroyed or captured 30…

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The Longest Purse. War of Armaments. London, May 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 3

Mr. Bonar Law, leader of the Unionise party, speaking at the Primrose League meeting in the Albert Hall, stated that he was confident Mr. Lloyd George…

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National Peace Conference. Struck Preventative of War. London, Friday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 5

Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, speaking at the National Peace Conference, said that when the international organisation of labour…

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Turko-italian War. Rhodes Garrison Surrnders. Rome, May, 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 May 1912 · page 5

The Turkish at Rhodes surrendered, and was granted the honours of war. Prior to surrender of the Rhodes garrison, numbering 1800, the Italians landed…

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An Actress Wounded. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 21 May 1912 · page 2

A Young woman of 20, named Russell, and said to be an actress, staggered into the Waverley Police Station this morning With a bullet wound in her breast,…

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Turko-italian War. Surrender of Rhodes' Garrison

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 21 May 1912 · page 4

Rome, Saturday.—The blockade of Rhodes has proved entirely successful. The Turkish garrison, finding its position untenable, offered to surrender…

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"If I had been in Mafeking." Mr. Edden on War

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1912 · page 4

AFTER the hero of Mafeking had spoken at a reception at the Town Hall on Thursday, Mr. Edden (Minister for Mines) extended a…

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A Boer War Episode. Mr. Churchill's Libel Suit. London, Monday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 May 1912 · page 5

Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty sued "Blackwood's Magazine" proprietary for libel for stating that he broke parnic in South Africa…

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Turko-italian War. Rome, May 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 May 1912 · page 5

The Italians have captured the island of Cos, off the south coast of Asia, in Aegean Sea…

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Italo-turkish War Franco-russian Intervention. Paris

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 5

M. Isvolsky, at the Russian Chamber of Commerce, stated that the French and Russian Government are endeavouring to settle the Italo-Turkish conflict in complete…

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Desperate Scene. Flint-throwing, Horseback Chase. a Man Wounded

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 6

Exciting scenes have just taken place on Hayes Common and in the usually decorous streets of Bromley (said "Lloyd's News" on March 3)…

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Mr. Edden on War. His Military Reminiscences

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 10

After the hero of Mafeking had spoken at the reception at Sydney Town Hall last week Mr. Edden (Minister for Mines) extended a greeting to him on behalf, of…

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Turko-itauan War. Rhodes Garrison Surrenders. Rome, May 18

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 2

The Italians have occupied all the Agean islands as far north as Leros. Destroyers off Ligsos, a small inland on the west of Asia Minor, captured a Turkish…

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Russia's Obsolete Weapons. War Office Attacked. St. Petersburg

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 May 1912 · page 5

The Right Centre and Left Centre of the Russian Duma hotly attacked the War Office for the mismanagement of the artillery administration. The obsolete weapons, it was…

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Soldiers and Strikers. London. Sunday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 May 1912 · page 5

Mr. Hyndman, addressing the British Socialist Conference, said that he was confident that the conference approved of soldiers refusing to shoot sweated and swindled workers…

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A City in Revolt. Conflicts with Soldiers and Police

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 May 1912 · page 1

Badapest, Saturday.—The city is in a state of siege, as the result of the police and military coming into confliet with a demonstration of suffragists…

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Soldiers and Strikers. London, Sunday afternoon

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 3

Mr. Hyndman, addressing the British Socialist Conference, said that he was confident that the conference approved of soldiers refusing to shoot sweated and swindled workers…

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A Soldier Born

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 June 1912 · page 7

If Bret Harte's only brother, Henry, had not—"as the irony of fate would have it," his sister puts it—died just before the Civil War, the family name might have been invested…

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War in Morocco

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 June 1912 · page 3

Paris, Saturday.—The situation in Fez is very grave. A caravan was looted on the Mequinez road. The tribes raised the sacred flag of Zaolia Mulayidrin,…

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War Tax Remitted. Paris

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 June 1912 · page 5

Owing to the friendliness of the inhabilants, General Lyantcy, has remitted the war contribution leveled on Fez, and there is intense satisfaction at the concession…

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