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

The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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The New War Engine That Terrible Motor

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 4

An armoured motor car, "galloping" across broken country, leaping ditches like a hunting horse, impenetrable to bullets and shrapnel, firing its hidden…

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War News Censorship. Press and National Interest

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 22 June 1906 · page 4

On the eve of or during war [?] penal to publish unauthorised news naval and military movements. A Bill that effect, which has been urged by…

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Miss Camp's Murder Ten-year-old Crime. a Soldier's Confession

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1906 · page 4

During yesterday afternoon (5th April) London was startled to learn that a confession had been made of the murder of Miss Camp. The facts…

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May Day in Paris. Mob Fight Police and Soldiers

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 3

Sixty thousand troops were on duty in the streets of Pairs on Tuesday, and May day did not pass without much [?]mult, the worst disorders taking place at…

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War Ot the Future

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 7

The war of the future will be ghastly enough but it will not be waged with the barbarism of a hundred years ago; nor will the foreigners of to-day in our…

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War of the Future. Imaginary German Studies. Struggle with England

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 7

A Berlin correspondent writes to the London "Dally Mall":— While Mr Le Queux and Mr Wilson are chronicling from the British standpoint…

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Railway Companies at War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 4

Papers by the last English mail, up to. 18th May, stated that the cordial understanding between Great Britain and France has led to the inauguration of a…

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War Party Intrigue. German Noblemen's Scheme

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 4

Sensational revelations of secret influences at work at the German Court are made by the "Deutsche Tage…

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Twilight Drama. Soldiers and Eavnsdroppers

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1906 · page 4

Two privates in the 7th Hussars— Samuel Steel, of Newcastle, and Henry Charles Hammond, stationed at Weedon garrison—were remanded at…

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Italian Strike. Soldiers Seize Bakeries

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 7

A general strike broke out in Rome and other large towns in Italy to-day as a protest against the authorities' toleration of the police assault on rioters at…

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South African War Scandal

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 14

THE Royal Commissioner's report on sales and refunds to contractors after the Seuth, African war has been published. No evidence of actual…

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Soldier Playwrights. From the Barracks to the Stage

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 22 August 1906 · page 6

It is a curious fact that two of the most popular playwrights of the day are men who have proved once again, that the pen is mightier than the sword--at least,…

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In Case of War. the Anglo-french Alliance. How It Would Act

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1906 · page 7

In an article enti[?] "The Advantages of the Alliance with England." the "France Militaire" says that in case of war England could render…

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South African Soldiers

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 4

WE have received the following:—"Intelligence Department, corner of Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney, 17th August, 1906.—Dear Sir,—The…

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War News. in War Time

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1906 · page 7

Probably every one admits (writes the London Times in June) in the abstract the importance of controlling, and if need be restricting the…

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Wireless War. the New Style

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 4

On board H.M.S. Euryalus on 2Sth June Mr William Maxwell wrote to the London "Daily Mail" :— I do not know whether Admiral…

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The War Song. How Japanese Expresses Itself

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 5

Japanese music is a wonderful thing, and the airs of Japanese songs sometimes remind one of the old, droning Psalm tunes still sung in those remote villages of the…

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The Army Censured. War Stores Commission

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 5

If it were not for the seriousness of the issues, the loss to the British taxpayer, and the severe condemnation of the War Office and Army officers of all…

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Real Deadwood Dicks. London Boys. Learning to Be Soldiers. Splendid Shooting

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 7

The Bisley correspondent of the London “Express” wrote on 31st July:— When I entered the grammar and…

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Bezobrazoff. Favourite of the Tsar. the Man Who Made War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 11

When the history of the Russo-Japanese war comes to be written it will be found to have been the work of one man— M. Benobrazoff…

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