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The wars & local soldiers, 1910

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Sedition in India. Native Regiment Implicated. Excitement in Calcutta. Ten Soldiers Arrested

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 4

Reuter's Calcutta Agency reports that a sensation has been caused in that city by the arrest of ten men belonging to the 10th Jats Native…

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In Love and War. Chapter I.

Nambucca News · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 8

It was Sunday night. The service over, the congregation was slowly dispersing, and the last notes of the organ were still reverberating on the air. The…

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War Scare

Macleay Argus · Friday 18 March 1910 · page 11

The correspondent of the international press association at Tokio (Japan) declares that there is no truth in the report that Japan is…

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Hydrophobia. Two Soldiers Bitten by Mad Dog. One Early Succumbs. the Survivor Dies Seven Months Later

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 13

Two men of the Norfolk Regiment, quartered at Gibraltar, were bitten by a mad dog last September. They were both taken to the Pasteur…

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Magic Lanterns. a War Office Experiment

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 12

The War Office has found that the magic-lantern plays so large a part In procuring recruits that a circular memorandum has been issued to officers…

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Welcome Home at Gladstone

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 20 April 1910 · page 4

On Wednesday night a representative: gathering filled the Methodist Church on the occasion of a welcome home social to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford…

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Balloons in War: Difficult to Destroy

Macleay Argus · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 4

The first tests in the United States of firing at balloons have been carried out at Sandy Hook. A small 3-man captive balloon was anchored at a…

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A Soldier Race. the House of Gough

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1910 · page 5

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

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Rage War in America. Seventeen Negroes Killed

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 13

Seventeen, negroes were killed [?] Memphis, Tennessee, late in December (reports the "Express"), in consequence of a renewal of the race was whi[?]…

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Where Every Man Is at War with His Neighbour

Macleay Argus · Friday 3 June 1910 · page 5

Our sketch represents a house in the Central Arfak Mountain, Dutch New Guinea. The old traditions of blood feuds are strong here, and every…

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Railways and War

Macleay Argus · Friday 10 June 1910 · page 14

COLONEL FOSTER, R.E., Director of Military Science at the Sydney University, discussed "Railways and War" the other night. Railways, in…

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Ferocious Assault. Man Dreadfully Wounded and Maltreated

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 10

A shocking affair was reported from Hunter's Hill on Tuesday morning. A night watchman named John Heath, aged 47, residing a Woolwich, and…

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Maniac in a Train. Nine Killed and Wounded in Express

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 7

With the women passengers fainting, the children screaming fright, and the men hiding behind the seats, the "Royal Blue, Limited," the famous…

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Another Army Proposal. Soldier Tailors

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 July 1910 · page 12

The latest proposal which is being discussed by the Army Council is one suggested by Sir John Fisher. It is that soldiers, like sailors, should make their…

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Railway Accident. Eight Persons Killed. Many Seriously Wounded

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 20 July 1910 · page 5

SYDNEY, MONDAY.—A terrible railway accident occurred at Richmond, near Melbourne, this rooming, when the engine of the Elsternwick train…

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Adding to the Terrors of War. the Silencer Unscrewed

Nambucca News · Friday 5 August 1910 · page 8

RIFLE WITH THE SILENCER FITTED. Mr. HIRAM P. MAXIM'S INVENTION FOR SILENCING RIFLES AND…

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A Plucky Soldier

Nambucca News · Friday 5 August 1910 · page 8

It has been said that Waterloo was won on the Playing-Fields of Eton. This, of course, referred to the gallantry of the British officers, many…

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German War Vessels in Collision

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 11

The German torpedo boat S72 collided with and rammed the torpedo boat S32. Both boats sank, but fortunately the crews were saved…

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War App[?]ances

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 2

An illuminating shell, which burst into flame in the air and [?] as a temporary searchlight, is [?] the latest ideas of war [?]. This…

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Gorse Hall Murder. an Ex-soldier Charged

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 10 September 1910 · page 8

Mark Wilde, an ex-soldier, appeared before the Stalybridge Police Court on a charge of rautclering George Storr, a contractor, at his residence, Gorse…

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