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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1904

388 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 20 of 20

Russo-japanese War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

The Japanese hold five out of seven forts guarding Port Arthur. A powerful Japanese fleet of battleships and cruisers, with fifteen colliers, is proceeding…

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War News of the Week

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

It in reported at Shanghai that part of the Japanese fleet has gone tu Singapore. Transports equipped with light Runs will, it is added, maintain the blockade of Port Arthur…

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Love's Triumph. a Story of Love War (All Right's Reserved.) PART 22

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 1

Her words wore not, very encouraging, and Annie's tears fell like rain upon the face of the man who gave ro sing that the knew where he was, or who…

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Soldiers in Prison Signs of Reform

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 30 December 1904 · page 9

The report of Lieutenant-Colonel Henderson, Inspector of Military Prisons, on the discipline and management of the military prisons in 1903 was issued as…

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The War

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 31 December 1904 · page 4
Also in The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette

Two British colliers conveyed 10 000 tons of [?] to port Said, where they unloaded, A German collier took a [?] to Mozambique for the Baltic…

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Russo-japanese War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 31 December 1904 · page 2

The left centre of the Japanese army at Port Arthur blew up the parapet in front of Er-lung shan Fort and then stormed it. The Russians made stout resistance but were eventually…

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War News of the Week

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 31 December 1904 · page 2

Russian prisoners state that only six companion of the 3000 troops defending the north Keekwan-shan forts survived after the Japanese attacks…

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