Russian Men-of-war at Singapore
Captain Helms, of the s.s. Menmuir, which returned to Adelaide on Monday from a round trip to Sourabaya, Samarang, Batavia, and Singapore, states that when he…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1885
94 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 5
War Preparations in the Colonies. New South Wales. Sydney
The Lusitania has been handed over by the Orient Company to Admiral Tryon, on behalf of the Imperial Government. She will be at once fitted out as a cruiser…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Franco-chinese War. the Blockade of Formosa Raised. [By Submarine Cable.] London, April 26
News bas been received from Formosa that the blockade of the Chinese ports in that island, which has been maintained for some time past by the French fleet, has been raised…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Later Particulars. War Considered Inevitable. Departure of the Czar for Moscow. Statement by Mr. Gladstone. Reported Defeat of the Russians.—1000 Killed. Imperial Manifesto to Be Issued. London, April 27
Router’s office announces on good authority, under date St. Petersburg to-day, that war between Great Britain and Russia is considered inevitable…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Afghan Difficulty. Warlike Preparations. Negotiations Still Proceeding. Proposals for a Settlement. Friendly Attitude of the United States. Probable Anglo-turkish Alliance. General Komaroff’s Troops Decorated by the Czar. Purchase of an Italian Man-of-war by England. Ominous Tone of the Russian Press. [By Submarine Cable.] London, April 22
It is positively affirmed, on what is believed be good authority, that a despatch has been received by Her Majesty’s Government, in which Russia refuses to make any further…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →What Russia Would Have to Face in Case of War
The sacrifice which war would entail upon England would be very great, but it would (save the Broad Arrow) be tenfold greater in the case of Russia. It seems to have escaped the attention of philo-Russians…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in the Soudan. the Battles Near Suakin
By the arrival of the R.M.S. John Elder we are in receipt of the following accounts of the battles between the British troops under Sir Gerald Graham and the Arabs in the vicinity…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Soudan Campaign. the N.S.W, Contingent in Action. Attack on Australian War Correspondents. Sydney, May 6
The acting Colonial Secretary has received the following telegram from Colonel Richardson, dated Suakin, Tuesday :—“The New South Wales Infantry have been detailed for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in the Soudan. the New South Wales Contingent Eulogised. Death of Private Weir. Arrival of Lord Wolseley at Suakin. [By Submarine Cable.] Suakin, April 29
It has been decided that the artillery portion of the New South Wales contingent shall remain at Handub for the present. The men were inspected yesterday by Sir Gerald…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →What Russia Would Have to Face in Case of War
The sacrifice which war would entail upon England would be very great, but it would (save the “Broad Arrow”) be tenfold greater in the case of Russia. It seems to have escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway War
MR WRIGHT, the Minister of Public Works, is essentially a political puzzle. At times he is possessed of the meekness of the cat, the docility of the horse, and the child-like and bland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Cosmopolitan's View of an Anglo-russian War
WE have received the following characteristic and ingenious effusion from M. Samuel Schidrowitz, concerning whom and his claim to be beard on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Soudan War. Being “Scuppered.” Murder Completed, and the Murderers Gone
Said the special Suakin correspondent of the London Telegraph, on March 12 :—“Scuppered” is a word which I bad never met with till I came to Suakin, and its horrible…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →An Australian War Correspondent
The following is a brief biography of young Lambie, the special war correspondent of the Argus and S M. Herald, written by an old fellow pressman :—Mr Lambie is the son of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War with Nature
The year before the France-Prussian war General A. von Roon, Prussian Minister of War, caused to be published and jointly edited with Oscar Peschel a treatise on ethnology. He had been mainly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Minister on the War Path
Mr. Minister-for-Mines Abbott has been having a lively, if not happy, time of it of late in the way of deputations. At Wentworth, for instance, he was bailed up by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Two Strangers. a Story of Marseilles. I.--the Young Soldier
IT was a rough winter's night. A alight conwester had been blowing all day long; but since the sun had gone down, and it bed grown dark, heavy gnats fled boisterously up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Welcome Home. Enthusiastic Reception in Sydney
On entering Port Jackson on Saturday the news that the Arab was to be quarantined was regarded by the Contingent as a slap in the face. As a regiment they had gone forth to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Germany in the Pacific. Reported Occupation of the Caroline Islands. Despatch of Spanish War Vessels. [By Submabine Cable.] London, August 13
Great excitement prevails in Madrid in consequence of a report that Germany has occupied the Caroline Islands. LONDON, August 14…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The War Cloud
AT last there seems a near possibility of the dispersion of the war cloud which has loomed over the political horizon in England for the last twelve months. The defeat of the effeminate…
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