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The wars & local soldiers, 1899

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Prefects of War

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 11 January 1899 · page 2

French journals insist that the British Blue Book regarding Madagascar tends to prevent a pacific feeling between Great Britain and…

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CABLEGRAMS. The Late American Spanish War

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 18 January 1899 · page 2

General Egan, Chief of the American Commissariat, has been ordered to be court-martialled for calling General Miles a malicious liar. General Miles…

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War in Samoa

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 26 January 1899 · page 8

THE E.M.S. Alameda, which arrived last Wednesday at Auckland, New Zealand, from San Francisco, being the latest Samoan news…

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The Recent War. London

Macleay Argus · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 9

Spain lost 80,000 men during the recent war with America. Disease and climatic causes were responsible for the great proportion of this serious…

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War in Samoa. a Serious Rising

Macleay Argus · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 11

NEWS has been received by steamer of a serious rising at Samoa. It appears that Chief Justice W. L. Chambers has decided that Chief Mataafa is disqualified…

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Spanish Soldiers

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 5

Eighty thousand Spanish soldirs died during the Cuban War, mostly from discuses and campaigning hardships…

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The Philippines. Removing Spanish Soldiers. London, January 23

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 4

THE Washington authorities have invited tenders for the conveyance of 16,000 Spanish soldiers from the Philippines to Spain…

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War in the Philipines. America and the Filipinos. London

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 8 February 1899 · page 2

Hostilities have broken out at the Philippine Islands between the insurgents and the American troops. An American Gentry fired upon a…

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War in the Philipines

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 3

In their endeavour to seize the water-works which supply Manila the lines of the American forces were advances six miles. Some 2500 Filipino…

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Wal War—Warrell Creek

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 6

WE are having a very welcome rainfall here, not ranch, but I think sufficient for the grass in its present state that is the soil is wet, but the sub soil has not bad a good…

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The Soudan. War Office Stolidity

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 25 February 1899 · page 2

The "Times" denounces the stolidity of the War Office for refusing to send a hospital ship to the Soudan, despite the reiterated request of…

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Humorous Column. Time He War Married

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 2

A recent wadding in the provinces was much interrupted that the friends of the wedded pair found special num to congratulate them when the ceremony…

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A Woman Soldier

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 2

The American mail brings details of tie career of the late Mrs L. H. Seelye, who fought as a soldier in the Civil war, dressed as a man. Like Mary Talbot, her famous…

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Enlistment of Chinese

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 4

A formal objection has been raised against the enlistment of Chinese subjects in New British regiments under conditions which make them…

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Great Fire in New York. 14 Per[?] Killed and [?] Wounded. Terrible Sufferings. London

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 22 March 1899 · page 2

A TERRIBLE fire has taken place at the Windsor Hotel, New York. It broke out in the basement floor, ascended through the service lift, and soon…

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France and Britain. Remarkable Ministerial Speech. Privateering Advocated. Within Hair's Breadth of War

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1899 · page 2

LONDON, March [?]—M. Lock[?] the French Minister for Marne, delivered a remarkable speech in introducing the Naval Fat[?] in the C[?] of Deputies yesterday…

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Taken in War

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 7

THE Colonel came home upon have—the only leave spent…

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War Ends Every Century

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 2

It is a curious fact, however little real significance it may have, that regularly, since and including the close of the eleventh century, each…

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War in Samoa. Assistance from New Zealand. Auckland

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 5 April 1899 · page 3

The Premier (Mr. Seddon has cabled to England offering to send the Government steamer Tutankekai, now at Auckland to Samoa with despatches…

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Taken in War

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 6 April 1899 · page 9

HE colonel came home upon leave—the only leave spent…

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