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Murray · The wars & local soldiers
399 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 20
Trials have been made at Shoeburyness of a new type of armour-plate intended to be used for war-ships. The severest method of testing the strength of the plates were…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Great Britain is continuing her preparations in view of the possibility or war with the South African Republic. Arrangements are being made for the…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Yesterday the Emperor William of Germany unveiled a monument at St. Privat, near Metz, in memory of the German soldiers who fell in the desperate battles around that…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →When the Germans were advancing on Paris it was proposed to raise several battalions of woman, to be called who ‘Amazons of the Seine.’ A corps of female warriors…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fiction which somehow or other has taken hold of the public mind is the belief that the principal berths in the diplomatic service are filled by such scions of our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →That kissing should go by favour on the stage as elsewhere is evidently the opinion of Mme. Lenthold, a Vienna actress. Our correspondent writes :—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The latest news from South Africa states that the British third-class cruiser, Tartar which arrived at Delagoa Bay last month, is now lying near the troopship to which was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The war panic still prevails ia the Transvaal, Since the beginning of the crisis over 15,000 persons have left the country, principally from Johannesburg. Great alarm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three forces of Boers are stationed within thirty miles of Mafeking in the north-eastern corner of Bechuanaland. Seven hundred volunteers have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The gravity of the situation is sufficiently indicated by the magnitude of the British war preparations. The first army corps has been warned to be…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The situation in the Transvaal has become graver than ever. The arrest of Mr. R. J. Pakeman. editor of the Leader, a recently-established…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Before the meeting closed on the occasion of the debate on the Transvaal crisis, Major Wilkinson, who occupied the chair, said he would with permission make some reference…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr, the Afrikander leader, and Mr. W. P. Schreiner, the Capo Premier, believe that there will be no war in the Transvaal. They are, they say, convinced…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →In view of the possibility of war with the Transvaal, the utmost activity prevails in the War department. Field-Marshal Viscount Wolseley, the…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →President Steyne, of the Orange Free State, has told the leader of the Afrikander Bund that it wits now too late to prevent war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PRACTICALLY the last hope of achieving a peaceful settlement of the Transvaal difficulty has vanished. The reports which were current in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The situation in South Africa has become exceedingly critical, and little hope is now entertained that hostilities can be averted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal Government in making every arrangement for the early outbreak of hostilities. At Zeerust, in the Transvaal, a few miles…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Advices from Venezuola, where General Castro, the lender of the revolutionary party, recently inflicted a crushing: defeat on the Government troops, capturing 2000 of them,…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Cape Town correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that a final attempt to prevent the outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and the Transvaal has…
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