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The wars & local soldiers, 1878

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Telegraphic News. War Items

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 3 April 1878 · page 4

Berlin, 24th March.—Essential modifications are imminent in the German Empire. Count Otho De Stolberg Weringerode, the German…

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The War

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 April 1878 · page 2

THERE is no longer room to doubt that the complications in Europe will result in a, fierce encounter between the Russian and the British forces. England has definitely…

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The Impending War

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 April 1878 · page 2

THE hostile attitude assumed by England against Russia, as contrasted with her previous idleness regarding the result of the struggle in Turkey,…

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Extraordinary War Demonstration

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 April 1878 · page 3

AN extraordinary demonstration in favor of the Government took place in the city on the afternoon of January 31. The City Neutrality…

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Latest War Mews. Austria Joins England. London

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 2

All the English press and the greater portion of the Continental press uphold England's last firm decision. In a circular note, Austria takes the same…

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The War in the East. (From Melbourne Journals.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 3

LONDON, March 28.—The negotiations for a European Congress are at a total standstill. Both Houses of the Romanian Legislature have unanimously rejected the exchange of…

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Latest War News. LONDON, 8th

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 10 April 1878 · page 2

News still indicates war. Russian journals say that it is impossible for Russia to acquiese to British demands, and it is believed that she will firmly resist them. Wool declined one half-penny to one penny per lb, compared with last closing rates…

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Latest War News

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 17 April 1878 · page 4

London, 10th April.—The reply of Prince Gortschakoff to Lord Salisbury's circular despatch is considered as unaggressive. The…

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The Kaffir War

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 20 April 1878 · page 19

Critical as is the Eastern Question at the present moment, when we know not what a day or even an hour may bring forth, it is impossible to overlook the gravity of the state…

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Punch’s War Song

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 April 1878 · page 4

News! News bath come from England— Come straight without e[?]en a fail, The Lion’s woke up from his “ forty winks,” “ They’ve trod on the tip of his tail.”…

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The War in Europe

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 April 1878 · page 2

THE more news we receive from England, bearing upon the relations of Russia and Turkey and the remaining powers of Europe, the more…

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War and the Colonies. (From the Times, March 8.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 May 1878 · page 4

When danger of war, real or imaginary, threatens the Empire, the first thought is what a broad mark the circle of British colonies offers to an enemy; the second, by what a mighty…

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Mr Gladstone and English Opinion on the War

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 5 June 1878 · page 4

Addressing a large assemblage in the Memorial Hall, London, on the 12th April, Mr Gladstone made the following remarks upon…

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The Eastern War Question

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 July 1878 · page 2

It is said that 60 persons lost their lives in the conspiracy on behalf of ex-Sultan Murad, but every attempt is made by the officials to hush the matter up, though the…

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Scraps, Original Select.and the Peninsula War

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 9

At the conclusion of the great war some 20 years ago or more, between France and the other European powers, most of the officers, military and naval, had to retire on half-pay; to eke out…

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Scraps, Original and Select. Waterloo .(From the Diary of a French Soldier, Fore-wood.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 31 August 1878 · page 9

The following is a summary of what is very loosely put together in the original; a few words, however have been added here and there, to bring out the more fully the writer’s meaning…

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Scraps, Original and Select. Waterloo From the Diary of a French Soldier. (Continued from our issue of August 31.)Advance on Hodgoumont

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 17

We were now fairly launched on an enterprise that was fated to prove so disastrous to us in its results. Our assault of the place was, for some reason or other, not to be made by columns of…

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The War in New Caledonia. (From the S. M. Herald.) Noumea, August 30

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 4

The Nouvelle Caledonie issued a two penny special to-day, the first of the kind, for the purpose of informing the public that at last there had been something approaching a fight between…

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Scraps, Original and Select. Waterloo From the Diary of a French SOLDIER.(Continued from our issue of the 14th inst.)PRUSSIAN ADVANCE

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 8

But while we were in this state of enjoyment, fully anticipating the defeat of the English and our arrival at Brussels, where indeed we had been promised our supper, the startling news spread…

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Scraps, Original and Select. Waterloo. From the Diary of a French SOLDIER.(Continued from our last.) Forebodings of Defeat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 5 October 1878 · page 8

Our misfortunes now seemed to culminate, for though it was getting dusk it was far from night in which our safety consisted! The field of battle so far as we could see appeared void of…

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