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

The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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The Munitions of War. No 3. (Communicated)

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 28 February 1906 · page 2

And to all that has been said about the improved engines of war the fact that never before in the history of nations has there appeared…

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Tales of the Crimean War

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 17

SIR EVELYN WOOD tells some soldiers stories in his book, "The Crimea in 1854 and 1894." In those days (he tells us) our men were taught…

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War Against the Waves

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 5

Galveston, Texas, at a cost of about £20 to each man, woman, and child of the city, is building a prodigious sea-wall as a protection against the repetition of the…

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Munitions of War (No. 4.) (Communicated)

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 3

On the 29th of August, I898, after the Czar had read the work,:Lay Down your Arms," written by Baroness Bertha von Suttnor (for which she…

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War Stores Scandals. Court-martial at Chelsea. Accused's Statement. the Meyer Rebate of £20,323

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 3

Staff-Sergeant Major Arthur Mansfield Hilton, of the 11th Company, Army Service Corps, who was arrested at Queenstown during Christmas week, Just as he…

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Furlough in Enland. a Boon for Soldiers

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 7

Soldiers on service in India, who have hitherto been cut off from their relatives on account of the prohibitive cost of the journey home, are to be given facilities…

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Moral Uses of War

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 6

"A war is a wicked war when it is needlessly waged, or when it is waged for greed; put even in these cases it may have its benefits for a nation" (remarks…

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Smashing up England. Another German War Prophecy

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 10

ANOTHER remarkable book following the lines of the once much-talked of "Battle of Dorking" has been printed in Germany the title is "Siestern 1906."…

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Another Afghan War What Lord Kitchener Desires

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 4 April 1906 · page 6

A writer, concealing his identity behind the nom de plume of "Anglo-Indian," writes in the "North American Review" an article which he has headed "The Call…

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China Arming for War

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 2

Anyone visiting the far East cherishing the ideas held by many that a temperal millenium is impending, will soon be obliged to revise his opinions on that…

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How Great War-songs Were Written

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 6

It was in a mood of wonderful Inspiration that Rouget de Lisle wrote both words and music of the world-famous "Marseillaise," said to be the most inspiring…

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Blind Soldier's Plight. Gentleman Banker Cast Off

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 20 April 1906 · page 4

To the Brentford magistrates a just pathetic appeal was made a middle-aged man who is totally blind. Groping his way to the witness boy,…

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Our Sydney Letter War to the Knife

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 2

IN the luridly picturesque language of Mr. Heaghney, the Secretary of the Victorian Central Executive, the decision has been arrived at "to put the…

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Another Afghan War What Lord Kitchener Desires

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 5

A writer, concealing his identity behind the nom de plume of "Anglo-Indian," writes in the "North American Review" an article which he has headed "The Call…

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The Afternoon of War. Workless Soldiers

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 3

Many soldiers who were invalided out of the Army after the Boer war are now on the tramp, the casual wards of the country's workhouses being their…

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A British Soldier in India

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 5

Many years ago, when Corporal Freeman was on duty in India, he met with an amusing adventure with a rifle-thief. He was at the time serving with the Fiel…

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The Aftermath of War. Workless Soldiers

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 15

Many soldiers who were invalided out of the Army after the Boer war are now on the tramp, the casual wards jot the country's workhouses being their…

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Slave of the Needle. English War Office Work. One Penny an Hour

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 7

The London "Express" of 1st March writes:— The sensational story of Mrs Thoro good, the Lambeth woman who told the…

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Why the Japanese are Great Soldiers

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 23 May 1906 · page 6

To realise what great soldiers the little chaps of Japan really are, one should not only see them in battle, but in the hospital…

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The Suppression of War. a Medical Congress

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 7

The war in the Far East, with its attendant horrors, suggested to Dr. J. Riviere, editor or the Paris "Journal et Annales de Phvsicotherapie," and several…

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