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The wars & local soldiers, 1902

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K[?]ug[?]ps Memoirs. Sportsman, Soldier, and Patriot

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 29 November 1902 · page 4

LONDON, October 24.—Our recent recollections of Ex-President Kruger as the crafty potentate, whose main idea of Government was to feather the nests…

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The Barton Airship. War Office Order for the Latest Invention

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 3 December 1902 · page 2

Dr. Barton, of Beckenham, who for the past 20 years has been experimenting with airships, gave a lecture recently before the Aeronautic…

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War with Rabbits

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1902 · page 13

A large landowner in the Sutton Grange district, Victoria, has had his property completely cleared of rabbits by having them dug out of their burrows. For several years…

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Unemployed Soldiers. Meeting in London. London, December 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 21

A large and influential meeting was held in London last evening to impress upon employers the crying needs of the reservists and time-expired soldiers, of whom 70,000 are…

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On a Chinese Man of War

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 17 December 1902 · page 1

Lieutenant—Your most noble Green-jacketness, the Japanese ships are approaching. His Green jacketness—Then fire a…

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Visit of Boer Farmers. The Voyagers Interviewed. Boer View of the War. Surprise at England's Greatness. Monday's Herald

The Riverine Grazier · Thursday 18 December 1902 · page 4

Messrs. W. L. Jooste, J. M. Lane, and H. T. Rood, the three Boer farmers who are a delegation sent by Lord Milner to inquire into the…

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Sinking the War-ships. London, December 11

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 December 1902 · page 26

Three of the Venezuelan war-ships captured by Great Britain and Germany, have been sunk. The fourth was not sunk, as it is claimed by France as her property. A party…

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War Medals

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 December 1902 · page 29

Those citizens or members of the defence forces who privately left Australia and serve in the Scottish Horse or in other irregular corps in South Africa are…

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A Memory of the War

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 December 1902 · page 35

A small party, led by the commander, enters a farm to see if any stragglers still lurk within it. What a scene! Piles of blankets, saddles, impedimenta of all…

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A State of War. London, December 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 December 1902 · page 24

A proclamation has been issued at Port of Spain, Trinidad, announcing that a state of war exists between Great Braitain and Venezuela…

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