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

The wars & local soldiers, 1905

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Late War News

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 3

The general attack on Port Arthur began on the 25th December and has brought the besiegers lines nearer Liao-ti shan…

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The War

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 5

The fort of Sung-shu shan, to the east of the railway and close to Ehr-lung shan, was s[?] and [?] by the Japanese at Port Arthur on Saturday…

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The War London

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 2

The Port Arthur Capitul[?] Agreement, signed on the 2nd inst makes the following stipulations (1) The whole of the fortress s[?]…

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War News or the Week

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 6

The mines' tunnels at Ehrlung-shan were cut in solid rock. Two tons of dynamite were used. The spectacle of the successive explosions is described as magnificent, and the storming by…

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War News or the Week

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 2

Officially announced that Port Arthur is unable to hold out any that, and that Stoessel has surrendered. A conference to arrange terms of surrender…

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The War London

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 2

A blockade has been raised by Japanese at Liao-tung, and a [?] garrison will be kept at Port Ar[?] —where a naval station will be[?]…

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Late War News. the Fight for Metre-hill a Graphic Account. Wounded Buried with the Dead

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 2

Mails by the [?].M.S. Ventura, from San; [?] contain the following graphic account of the attack on Metre-Hill by Commander [?]…

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The War

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 3

During the interview he had with General Nogi in the cottage at Shu-shi, near Port Arthur, General Stoessel…

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Russo-japanese War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 2

The special Japanese ambassador to European Courts says Japan went to war solely to defend her own interests, and that whenever the war ended, Japan would seek to establish peace on a…

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War News of the Week

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 6

The Vienna corzespondent of the Times says that the German Emperor the eve of tho war urged the Czar to reflect before rejecting, the Japanese terms…

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Cabled News London, Thursday. The War

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 2

The supplementary Baltic Fleet has passed through the Suez Canal. The Czar of Russia and the Mikado of Japan have thanked the German…

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The War. London

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 2

The Russian cavalry which recently raided the southern portion of Man churia consisted of three columns with a front of over five miles. The…

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Late War News. a New Version

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 5

The " Times " Port Arthur correspondent says the new town shows but few signs of bombardment. Makaroff's death demoralised the…

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The War

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 3

Correspondents of French Newspapers at St. Petersburg state that the Czar has finally determined not to recall the Baltic Fleet…

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The War. London

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 2

The United States regards that the reported invasion of Kashgar by the Russians is an alleged intention for the Baltic Fleet to seize a Chinese…

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The War Correspondent His Great Pretensions

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 January 1905 · page 4

The plaint of the war correspondent who has been sent away empty by the Japanese is handled severely in "Blackwood. "The correspondent complains that…

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Wireless Telegraphy in the Russo-japanese War

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 January 1905 · page 4

A large company including many eminent men in science, attended a dinner given at the Hotel Cecil to Dr. Lee de Forest, inventor of the De Forest system…

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The Far East War Mr Dooley's View

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 January 1905 · page 9

Writing in the Westminster Gazette," Mr Dooley (Mr J. P. Dunne) discourse thus hibernically and humorously on the war:—…

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The War

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 2

A special Japanese service squadron has been formed but its object is unknown. The French gunboat Capricorne, which has arrived at .Seychelles, reports that the…

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Revolution in Russia. Desperate Fighting in the Streets of St. Petersburg. Hundreds Killed and Wounded. the Populace Arming

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 6

The priest Gapon, lender of the strikers in St. Petersburg, and eleven representatives of trades unions, forwarded n letter exhorting the Czar to go to square before the Winter Palace on…

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