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The wars & local soldiers, 1905

9 stories in Illawarra's papers

The War

Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 2

The blockade of the Li[?]-tung has been raised by the Japaness. A small garrison will be kept at Port Arthur, where a naval station is being established. The delivery…

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The War

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 2

Generals Sakharoff and Stackelberg are returning to St. Petersburg, the former owing to a difference with General Liniovitch, and the latter for health reasons…

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The War. Visit of a War Correspondent. to Wollongong. Lecture Next Friday Night

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 2

At the Town Hall on Friday evening next the citizens will be given a treat in the way of a lecture by Mr. Lewis Freeman (representative of the American "Review of…

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The War

Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 12 April 1905 · page 2

Kuropatkin has telegraphed to the Czar: "The First Army is confident of victory, but we must have time." Two Russian attacks on Thu-lu-sha were repulsed by the…

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Behind the Scenes of War. Some Private Letters

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 19

Those who for one reason or another prophesy the speedy termination of the war in the Far East omit to take one important matter into consideration…

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The Cost of the War

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 2

The first shot in the great war in the East was fired on February 7, 1904, and all sorts of authorities have been going through painful arithmetical exercises to ascertain…

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The Russia-Japanese War. The Two Fleet meet. 7 Russian Vessels Sunk

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1905 · page 2

Yesterday the news was cabled that a Russian battleship and six other vessels of the Baltic fleet had been sunk by the Japanese fleet…

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The War

Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 31 May 1905 · page 2

Reuter's Tokio correspondent has telegraphed as follows:—"Admiral Rozhjestvenski's fleet has been practically annihilated. Sixteen warships have been…

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End of the War

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 5

An important message has been received by the State Premier (Mr. Carruthers) from Mr. J. B. Suttor (Commercial Agent in the East), evidently referring to the peace…

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