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

The wars & local soldiers, 1914

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Tragedy at Bimbi. Man Fatally Wounded. Half Caste Arrested

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 2

Word was received at Forbes yesterday of a case of supposed murder at Bimbi, a place between Forbes and Grenfell. It appears that two…

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Laughed at Soldiers. Young German Arrested

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 9

An echo of the Zabern court-martial dictum, that a civilian may not laugh at a soldier, was heard at Strasburg, when a young man was arrested by soldiers for…

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War Started. America and Mexico. Washington

Western Champion · Thursday 23 April 1914 · page 22

It is reported in Washington that the American marines, while taking possession of the Customs House [?] Vera Cruz, met with resistance, and…

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America at War. the Mexican Trouble

Forbes Times · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 4

A cable from New York, dated Wednesday, says:—War has started. America has taken action in Mexico, and Vera Cruz has been…

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The Mexican War. What It Will Mean

Western Champion · Thursday 30 April 1914 · page 12

A war out of a revolution, and a war that may cure revolution. That is the position in Mexico to-day, where the guns of the United States are…

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A Soldier Race. Othe House of Gough

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 4

General Sir Hugh Henry Gough, V.C., Keeper of his Majesty's Regalia in the Tower, has, writes the "Westminster Gazette," suffered a sad bereavement by…

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What War Means

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 20 May 1914 · page 9

What shall we say of the Balkan atrocities? (asks Professor. Starr Jordan). Are they in fact unheard of, "inoui," as affirmed by the Congress at The Hague, or are they just part…

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Cost of War. World-wide Losses. the Slowing Down of Trade

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 27 May 1914 · page 4

What shall we say of the "Slowing Down of Trade" in America? asks Professor Starr Jordan. What of the "Slowing Down of Trade" in Europe? Don't believe that…

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Girl with the Bulgars. Shot in the Trenches. Grim Relics of Adventures. War-infested Land

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 3 June 1914 · page 9

To know the grim terrors of war falls to the lot of few of our women. There is one English lady at least who can claim to be the exception, and she is Miss Jessica…

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Death-ride of Soldier. . Awful Fate on Way Home. After Absence Abroad

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 17 June 1914 · page 4

Impatient to see his parents from whom he had been so long exiled, and full of delighted expectation at the prospect of a happy reunion, James Duncan, aged 29, a soldier on…

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A British Soldier in India

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1914 · page 4

A buck-jumping waler (Australian horse) is no joke be sat if he means to get rid of you. Tommy Rawson was one of the finest riders in India. One night at his…

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Ernest Vizetelly. War Correspondent's Life

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 24 June 1914 · page 9

"In a book-which deals With the 'People's War" in France after the fief eat at Sedan, and the downfall of the Second Empire, Mr. Alfred Ernest Vizetelly relates some of the…

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Woman's Career As a Soldier

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 4

"Albert Cashier," an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois, who had been masquerading as a man for sixty years, and who served as a soldier…

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Woman's Career As a Soldier

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 7

"Albert Cashier," an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois, who had been masquerading as a man for sixty years, and who served as a soldier…

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Woman's Causer As a Soldier

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 July 1914 · page 10

"Albert Cashier," an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois, who had been masquerading as a man for sixty years, and who served as a soldier…

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Theirs Not to Reason Why. When Soldiers Begin to Think

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 July 1914 · page 4

Mr. Ponsonby, M.P., in the "Contemporary Review," says the doctrine of optional obedience involves the crumbling away of the whole basic principle of the Army as…

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Unnamed Hero. How Three Officers Were Murdered. Wounded Man's Thought for Friend

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 22 July 1914 · page 9

Details have been received in Great Britain by mail from India of the fatal shooting at Tank Tahsil, on the North-west Frontier, of Major G. Dodd, Captain G. B. Brown,…

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To the War. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1914 · page 3

The Austro-Hungarian Consul has notified all Austrian subjects, subject to military duty, to return to the monarchy…

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Latest Cables. the War Scare. London

Forbes Times · Tuesday 28 July 1914 · page 2

It is estimated that 100 people were wounded, 30 of them seriously, and four deaths are reported in the conflict near Dublin arising out…

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Big European War Russia and Austria In Conflict over Servia First Shots Fired

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1914 · page 2

War between Russia and Austria is imminent The immediate event which led up to Austria's ultimatum to Servia…

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