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The wars & local soldiers, 1904

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Japanese Soldiers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 27

The military unit in Japan, according to the Tokio correspondent of the Daily Mail has been drilled to the highest degree of mechanical accuracy, so that his response to…

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The War Cloud in the Far East. Situation at Seoul Very Grave. Russian Troops to be Landed. Warships Preparing for Action. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 2

The United States Minister at Seoul, Mr Horace N. Allen, considers the situation there very grave. It is feared that there will be rioting among…

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Telegrams. Boiler Explosion on the War. Ship Wallaroo. Four Men Killed ; Three Wounded. Sydney

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 2

The report that 43 men had been killed through an explosion of a boiler on the warship Wallaroo proves to be incorrect. When the signals relative to the disaster were…

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Pessimism in Pekin. War Considered Certain

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 3

There in a very deep not of [?] in the views expressed in dip[?] in [?] War in [?] as to…

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Telegrams. Inter State. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Naval Tragedy. The wallapoo explosion. Four Killed and Three Wounded. Signals Misunderstood. the Disaster Overestimated

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 2

At 236 on Wednesday afternoon, whilst the H.M.S. Wallapoo was proceeding in company with H.M.S. Taura[?] route for Hebart, steam was…

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Hundreds of Japanese Enlist Men Leaving Their Work in Shoals

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 3

Hundreds of Japanese who have been employed as truckmen and mines in the mines of the State of Wyoming, are leaving their work and hastening home…

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Cablegrams. London, Friday. the War Cloud More Cruisers Wanted. Japan Buying Stroes. Russia's Reply to Japan Japan Lands 35,000 Men. in the Far East. All Horses Bought Up. Japan's New Cruisers. Landing Forces at Chemultho. Severe corean Winter. Japan Lands Thirty Five Thousand Troops. on the Korean Coast

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 3

The correspondent of the "Telegraph" at Washington has received advices form that war department, which declare that Japan is about to…

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Optimistic Tone in Tokio. Hopes That War Will Be Averted

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 January 1904 · page 3

Following on the receipt of Russia's reply, a more optimistic tone prevails at Tokio. Telegram which have been received…

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The War Cloud in the Far East. Russia's Reply Considered. Peace Regarded as Hopeless. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Monday 11 January 1904 · page 2

The Cabinet at Tokio yesterday met and considered the reply by Russia to Japan's last note. The situation has not improved…

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The Trans-siberian Railway. Useless in a War Sense. Wouldn't Stand Strain for a Week

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 January 1904 · page 3

Major Nathan, who held a high position in the recent war with the Boers in South Africa as a railway transport officer, has inspected the…

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The Czar's Advisers. Private Influences at Work. to Serve Personal Ends. and Precipintate a National War

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 January 1904 · page 3

Japanese authorities declare that per haps Czar Nicholas and some of his advisers do not desire war though other intimately connected with the…

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Mr. Seddon on Chinese Importation. Bitter Denunciation. Deeply Resented by Self-governing Colonies. Who Assisted in Recent War. Wellington

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 January 1904 · page 3

The Hon, Richard Seddon, addressing his constituents at Kumard last evening, said that if as the result of the Transvaal being brought under the…

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The Cruisers Pass Sardinia. Closely Followed by Russian Warships. More Russian Men of War Will Meet Them at Suez. Later

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 January 1904 · page 3

The Japanese cruisers Kagasayo and Migsba, which have been purchased from the Argentine Government, have passed the island of Sardinia on their…

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Cablegrams. London, Sunday. the War Cloud Shadowing Cruisers Russian Reply Received The Big Railway A Farce America Sends 5 Warships in the Far East. Russia Alert In The Suez Canal Japan's New Cruisers. Thirty Russian Batallions Ready for the Railway the Czar Better Advised. Russia's Reply. Great Divergence of Opinion. Between Alexieff and St. Petersburg. Alexieff Wanted War

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 January 1904 · page 3

Information has reached official circles in Paris that a very protracted correspondence between the Russian Military Authorities at St. Petersburg…

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If War Occurs. Will Britain Be Involved?

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 3

Considerable interest has been aroused in the subject of Great Britain's liability to be involved in hostilities should Russia and Japan come to blows. Under…

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The Impending War. England May Have to Intervene

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 3

"The Times," in a leading article on January 7, warns Great Britain that, in the event of war, apart altogether from the treaty of alliance with Japan,…

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Russia's Great Duplicity. Will, Force Japan Into War

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 3

The [?] newspaper announces that M. [?] has told Prince Ching that Runsia's reply was altogether [?] and too…

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Alexieff Holds the Fatal Die. He Gan Declare Peace or War

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 3

One of the [?] Grand [?] in-formed the correspondent of the New York "Herald" at St. Peters[?] on Sunday that the Czar, after much…

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Everything Points to War. Which May Be Delayed for a Week

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 3

Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent of the London "Daily Tolegraph" at Tokio, cabling late on Sunday evening, says that everything in…

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Russia's Forces. 100,000 Soldiers in Manchuria

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 3

Mr. Benn[?] Burleigh, the "Daily Telegraph's correspondent in the Far East, reports that there are now fully a hundred thousand Rusel[?]…

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