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

The wars & local soldiers, 1907

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Brave Mens' Death Shroud. An Incident in the Japanese Russian War

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 November 1907 · page 20

MAJOR-GENERAL HOAD, Inspector-General of the Commonwealth Military Forces, during the course of a chat out at the rifle range at the recent…

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Soldiers Tell on Each Other

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 15 November 1907 · page 5

General Frederick D. Grant tells this story on his friend Major Green: " Major Green said to his servant one morning:…

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The War of the Future

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 4 December 1907 · page 3

The medical officer of the Australian army has invented a humanitarian projectile in the form of a shell that, on explosion, distributes not fragments of lead…

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Wheat-growing in Manchuria. The Theatre of the Late War

Western Champion · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 7

A REPORT has recently been addressed to the Premier by Mr. J. B. Suttor, Commercial Agent for New South Wales in the East, in which some very…

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A Soldier of the King Pawned His Medals. Distress Suggests Suicide

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 4

When the veil is raised for a moment on such tragedies as the one revealed lately in the Westminster Police Court, public pity is stirred. The curtain of…

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Germany's Little War. Another South African Danger

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 6

Considering that a long-and bloody war of no small magnitude 'has been raging for nearly two years on our. South African border, it is remarkable how little public…

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Peeps into Futurity. The New Rules of War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1907 · page 12

The following satire on certain aspects of the military question is from Habohard's "Books of To-day":—1. Each [?]my shall appoint an umpire…

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Speak Pakeha—live or Die. an Incident in the Maori War. (Copyright.)

Western Champion · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 1

We Australians, with few exceptions as yet know little of those twin islands, girt by the Pacific, lying some few hundred miles South…

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Germany's Little War. Another South African Danger

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 8

Considering that a long and bloody war of no small magnitude has been raging for nearly two years on our South African border, it is remarkable how little public…

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Real Deadwood Dicks. London Boys Learning to be Soldiers. BISLEY, July 31

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 23 December 1907 · page 6

When I entered the grammar and elementary schoolboys' camp in the midst of the Bisley prairie, I was accosted by a very small boy with a very real-looking…

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