Austrian War Vessels in the Levant. London, February 15
Five Austrian war-ships have arrived in the Levant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Illawarra · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1878
46 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 3
The European War. London, February 19
In an address before the German Parliament Prince Bismarck, as Chancellor of the Empire, expressed his disbelief in the predictions of a coming European war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Javaki War in India. Bombay, December 31
General Ross occupied Pastoni, with but slight opposition, and their advanced on Wallai. The Bori force has joined General Keyes,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Feeling in England. London, February 25
A monster anti-Russian meeting has been held in Hyde Park…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Austria and the War. London, February 25
Austria is raising a special war vote…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Preparations. London, February 23
Owing to the adoption by Austria of warlike precautions, 80,000 Russian troops have passed Jossy for the Transylyanian frontier, and the ordinary railway traffic is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →England and the War. London, February 28
General Lord Napier, of Magdala, the present Governor of Gibraltar, will be appointed Commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Forces in the event of war,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hungarian War Note. Vienna, March 13
The Hungarian Delegation has agreed to the grant of 60,000,000 florins asked by the Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs for war purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News. London. March 26
Increased difficulties beset the proposed Congress. Telegrams from various European capitals express fears that the present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Feeling in England
THE following extacts from private letters give a better idea of the state of feeling in England than the articles of newspapers. The first is written by a London merchant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Excitement in London
We do not often have such a day as February 7. It was emphatically "crowded with rumours, alarms, assertions, contradictions, fears, hopes, resolves, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →POETRY. The Shadow of War
HARE! 'Tis the sound comes sluging from afar, with threatening tone—the trumpet note of war, It comes from England, brave and good To British men of British sonis and blood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What War means for England
IF war is the doom of England (says the World), its horrors will go to the aristocracy, its misery will descend upon the masses, and its gains will find their way into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Caffre War
The special correspondent of the Times, at Caffraria, writing from King William's Town on the 9th January, gives the following account of matters there at that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Kaffir War
Cape Town, February 12.—Serious and decisive fighting has taken place since the departure of last mail. On the 5th the combined forces, under Commandant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Closing Scene of the War
The correspondent of the Daily News gives the following account, of the scene of San Stefano on March, on the signing of the Treaty of Peace.—Scarcely was it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Preparations
Not alone is every ship at home being put in order and fit for fighting if required but our depots and yards abroad are busy getting everything ready for emergencies…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Russian Losses in the War
OFFICIAL returns state that the Russian losses in killed and wounded during the late war amounted to 89,304 officers and men. Among those were 10 generals killed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MISCELLANEOUS. War Preparations
IMMENSE quantities of shot and shell are being issued from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, in all directions. There is a very heavy order on hand for the Indian…
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