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

The wars & local soldiers, 1911

77 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 1 of 4

Chapter Xviii. War at Our Doors

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 8

By this time all Australia was aflame with the war feeling. In every city, every town and hamlet in the Commonwealth, there was a rallying to the standard…

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Chapter Xviii. War at Our Doors

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 7

By this time all Australia was aflame with the war feeling. In every city, every town and bamlet in the Commonwealth, there was a rallying to the standard…

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Cost of a German War Appalling Figures

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 5

According to a writer in the "Quarterly Review," the loss to France by the Franco-Prussian War is circulated at 544,000,000 sterling, while the victor's…

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Chapter Xxii. the War—here and at Home

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 8

How could Brisbane possibly raise five millions to buy off the invader? That was the cry of all who heard of the terrible demand that had been made…

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War in the Air. Aeroplane V. Dirigible. Difficulty of Destroying a Balloon

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 3

Mr W. F. Reid, lecturing on Tuesday at a meeting of the Aeronautical Society (said "Lloyd's News" on October 30) expressed the opinion that the…

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Soldier's Heart. Food and Clothes Reform

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 3

Mr. Haldane, Secretary for War, speaking at the Royal Army Medical School, Millbank, yesterday afternoon, in connection wilh the prize…

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Cost of a German War Appalling Figures

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 27 January 1911 · page 7

According to a writer in the "Quarterly Review," the loss tp France by the Franco-Prussian War is circulated at 544,000,000 sterling, while the victor's…

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A Royal Bride. Margaret of Connaught. a Soldier's Daughter

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 4

The daughter of a soldier who is anything but a, carpet-knight, the granddaughter of the "Red Prince" Karl, who is known as one of the…

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First War Correspondent Henry Crabb Robinson

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1911 · page 4

Probably the first war correspondent! was Henry Crabb Robinson, who in January, 1807, received a proposal from Mr Walter that he should take up his…

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First War Correspondent Henry Crabb Robinson

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

Probably the first war correspondent was Henry Crabb Robinson, who in January, 1807, received a proposal from Mr Walter that he should take up his…

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Chapter. Xxviii. the War in England Moves to a Sudden Conclusion

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 18 February 1911 · page 8

England was distressed, but never subdued, by the presence of nearly. 400,000 German troops upon its territory. As the narrative in previous chapters…

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The Russian Soldier

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1911 · page 3

The rank and file of the Russian army are illiterate. Not 10 per cent of them can read and write. It was the great grandfather of the present Czar who issued…

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The Russian Soldier

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 7

The rank and file of the Russian army are illiterate. Not 10 per cent of them can read and write. It was the greatgrandiather of the present Czar who issued…

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Mutiny in Brazil. Two Hundred Killed and Wounded. Capital Shelled

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 11 March 1911 · page 2

Another mutiny has been suppressed at Rio de Janeiro by the firm action of the Brazilian Government, but while it lasted there was desperate fighting…

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The Thirty Years' War. German Memorial to Gustavus Adolphus

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1911 · page 4

In the presence of Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia and the Crown Prince of Sweden a chapel in commemoration of the death of Gustavus Adolphus of…

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A British Soldier in the Soudan

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 11 March 1911 · page 8

During the last Soudan War (writes an ex-soldier), I was one of the Guards' Camel Corps up the Nile, and, before starting across the Bayuda desert, we…

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The Thirty Years' War. German Memorial to Gustavus Adolphus

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 17 March 1911 · page 8

In the presence of Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia and the Crown Prince of Sweden a chapel in commemoration of the death of Gustavus Adolphus of…

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A British Soldier in the Soudan

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 17 March 1911 · page 6

During the last Soudan War (writes an ex-soldier), I was one of the Guards' Camel Corps up the Nile, and, before starting across the Bayuda desert, we…

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A British Soldier in India

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 18 March 1911 · page 3

An infantry regiment was stationed at P—, in India, at the same time as a certain battery of artillery was quartered there. There was great rivalry between…

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A British Soldier in the Soudan

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 22 March 1911 · page 6

During the last Soudan War (whites an ex-soldier), I was one of the Guards' Camel Corps up the Nile, and, before starting across the Bayuda desert, we…

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