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The wars & local soldiers, 1905

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War News. Great Japanese Victory. London

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 2

It is reported from Tokio, on good authority, that 200,000 Russians have been enveloped in a central position and surrounded…

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The War. London, March 10

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 8

THE whole district westward of the manchurian railway and southward of the Hun-ho is in the hands of the Japanese…

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War News. LONDON

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 2

Russian prisoners state that Kuropatkin's forces at the outset of the battle of Mukden numbered 480,000. More than 10,000 Russians…

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The Awakening of China. Chinese Feeling About the War. (British Weekly, February 3.)

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 4

One of the grandest of living missionaries is Dr. Timothy Richard, who has given thirty-five years to the service of China. He possesses the…

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The War. London, March 16

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 8

The Japanese, it is reported, have out the railway north of Chang-ta-fu, 20 miles north of Kai-yuen. The "Times" correspondent adds that…

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War News. LONDON

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 2

The Japanese vanguard is 100 miles north of Mukden. The Russians have been completely driven out of all the districts watered by the Liao…

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The War. London, March 25

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 7

Russian telegrams from the front declare that unless 200,000 men immediately reinforce General Linievitch a retreat to the Sungeri, and possibly to Siberia,…

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War material for Vindivostock

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1905 · page 2

Ten trains with provisions of war material leave St. Petersburg daily for Vindivostock…

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The War. London, March 31

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 8 April 1905 · page 7

The St. Petersburg correspondent of "The Times" learns from unimpeachable sources that Russia and Japan have selected President Roosevelt to act as…

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War News. Naval Battle Imminent. London, Friday Afternoon

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1905 · page 2

The Correspondent of the "Daily Mail" at Jibutil, the French port at the entrance to the Red Sea, states that after taking aboard three weeks…

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The War. London, April 8

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 15 April 1905 · page 7

Lloyd's reports that the Russian fleet under Admiral Rozhdestvensky, passed Singapore on Saturday afternoon, apparently heading for the Durian Straits, the…

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The War. London, April 14

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 7

The Baltic fleet, commanded by Admiral Rozhdestvensky, is apparently proceeding north by the shortest route, leaving Admiral Nicbogatoff,…

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War Office Methods

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 3

Several stories of War Office methods, probably inventions, are going the rounds of the papers. The following, it in alleged, in furnished by a correspondent on one…

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The War. London, April 22

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 7

Bitterness in Japan at the Kamranh incident is growing. Meetings have been held strongly denouncing the attitude of France…

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European News. War and General

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1905 · page 2

A British steamer passed two squadrons, one of seven ships, the other of eight, on Thursday night, 60 miles south of Penang. The squadrons are…

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The War. London, April 27

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 8

General Linevitch, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian armies in Manchuria, reports that he made a determined attack on Kai-yuan and Chang-tu,…

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European News. War, and General

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 8 May 1905 · page 2

Lloyd's agent at Singapore reports that four Russian battleship, two cruisers, four [?] and one hospital ship passed Malaoca on Thursday…

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The War. London, May 7

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 5

Four Russian torpedo boats from Vladivostock arrived on the west coast of Hok-kaido, Yezo (northernmost island of Japan), on Friday. They seized and…

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Czar will continue the war. LONDON

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 2

The Czar is more than ever resolved to continue the war with Japan…

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The War. LONDON, May 16

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 7

Reuter's correspondent at Saigon, telegraphing on Monday, stated that the Baltic fleet had reappeared off Hon-kohe Bay, on the Annam coast. It weighed…

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