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The wars & local soldiers, 1883

2 stories in Illawarra's papers

A New War Ship

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 30 March 1883 · page 4

AT no former period has there been so much activity in the shipbuilding department at Chatham Dockyard at this season of the year as may be now witnessed at…

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War Clouds Over England, Russia, and Spain

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 3 April 1883 · page 4

Two clouds, each about the size of a man's hand, are upon she political horizon of the old world just now, the one at Trebizonde, the other, at Gibraltar. Both threaten the old…

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