The Life-cost of a War
The Manchester Examiner remarks that, startling and terrible as were M. de Foville's calculations of the money cost to France of the war with Germany, the ghastly figures…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1881
10 stories in Illawarra's papers
The South African War
THE tidings of a series of military disasters, not, indeed, on a runious scale, but annoying, humiliating, perhaps exasperating to those who are jealous for what is called…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →End of the Basuto War. Cape Town, June 15
There is now every hope of the Basuto difficulty being finally settled, the more important chiefs having practically submitted to the terms imposed by Sir Hercules…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queer Happenings in War
At the battle of Franklin (says the Detroit Free Press), the first shell sent from the first Union field piece to open fire killed twenty-six Confederates. The next…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Mahomedans Urged to Engage in a Holy War. Paris, July 2
Latest accounts received from Tunis and Sfax report that the excitement among the Mahommedans is increasing, the bitterest animosity being displayed towards the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Blowing-up of the Man-of-war Doterel
RESPECTING the blowing-up of the Doterel, we gather the following particulars from the Home News:— " Dead—eight officers and 135 men."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strange Man-of-war
The Polyphemus, which was launched at Chatham on June 15th, is a vessel of stranger design than any hitherto built for fighting purposes. A ship of 2610 tons, and therefore as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peace and War
THE probabilities of war among the great nations of Europe constitute at all times a subject of great, and perhaps in some respects, of morbid interest; but although…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another New Zealand War
Contrary to the hope, if not the expectation, of the New Zealand Government, that the native difficulty would be amicably arranged, Te Whiti and his followers persist in their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miss Parnell in War Paint
At a recent meeting of the Cork Ladies' Land League, Miss Parnell said:—I don't think this cessation of hostilities on the part of the Government towards the people…
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