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The wars & local soldiers, 1904

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The Sketcher. If War it Be? Interview With Mr. Miggs

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 6

To Judge by the newspapers, British and French, you would imagine that, while the British public and the Press of both countries are very much in earnest about the…

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A Soldier From South Africa

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 5

I shall never forget Splon Kop. I saw as much as most people, but if I never see another fight i have done my share, and had nearly enough…

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War Cloud

Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 13 January 1904 · page 2

The war cloud still hangs over the Far East. The Russian reply to Japan is couciliatory in tone, but unsatisfactory in substance. This is generally understood…

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The War and Ourselves

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 16 January 1904 · page 2

It seems a likelihood almost equal to certainly that war will soon eventuate between Japan and Russia, and, it so, it will assuredly affect the interests of…

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The Torped Boat in War

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 27 January 1904 · page 6

Among the reasons to be learnt from the Spanish-American war, it has been clearly demonstrated that torpedo boats are absolutely useless in daylight against…

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War Cloud

Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 10 February 1904 · page 2

This seems to be lowering more and more over the Eastern horizon, indeed it is believed in many places that war may be declared betwee Japan and Russia any…

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The War of Wars

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1904 · page 3

THIS twentieth country must grow somewhat older before it is possible to appreciate in their true proportion the events of the nineteenth century. Nevertheless, one fact at least is…

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The War

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 2

War has begun in real earnest between Russia and Japan, and several hot engagements have taken place. The Japanpse torpedo boats have attacked the Russian…

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Queer Accidents in War

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 1

In the recent, Spanish-American War (says the "Regiment") a trooper in the famous Roosevelt roughriders, who had passed…

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The War. Attack on Port Arthur. Russian Vessels Captured and Sunk

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 2

CABLES to hand, dated Wednesday last, states that the Japanese force which attacked Port Arthur on Monday night included 17 armored vessel. It is definitely…

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Russia-Japanese War

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1904 · page 3

What can be confidently accepted as a correct narrative of the attack on Port Arthur is to hand in the form of a cable to the Japanese Consul-General in Sydney,…

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The War

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 17 February 1904 · page 3

Admiral Alexcleff, Russian Viceroy in the Far East, reports that the Russian torpedo transport Yenisei, while lying on a line of submarine mines in Tallenwan…

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Mr. Fuller on the War

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 17 February 1904 · page 2

Mr. G, W. FULLER, M.H.R., in responding to the toast of Parliament at the Shoalhaven show last week, referred briefly to the war between Russia…

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The War

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 2

UP to the present time in the Russio-Japanese war the latter power seems to be having all the say. We road of the Japs simply mowing the fine vessels of the Czar…

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The War. Battle of Chemulpho

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 2

It has been officially announced in Tokyo that Japanese torpedo boat destroyers made an stock upon the Port Arthur squadron on Sunday, the 14th…

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Russia-Japanese War

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1904 · page 2

The latest cable news states that the explosion by which the Russian transport Yenesei was blown up through drifting on to a mine in Talien-wan Bay result in 190…

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The War of Wars

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1904 · page 3

THIS twentieth century must grow somewhat older before it is possible to appreciate in their true proportion the events of the nineteenth century. Nevertheless, one fact at least is…

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The War

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 24 February 1904 · page 2
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THE St, Petersburg daily paper, Viedomosty, states that the Siberian railway cannot be sufficiently guarded with the few troops that Viceroy…

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Queer Adventure of a War Correspondent

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 24 February 1904 · page 5

Ms Knight, the adventurous correspondent of the "Times," who got into Cuba after twenty-four hours Immersion in the water, about three months ago, has returned…

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