CABLEGRAMS. War. RUSSO-JAPAN At Port Arthur. Land Mines Destroyed. LONDON
The Japanese have discovered and destroyed a most complicated system of land mines intended for their discomfiture…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murray · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1904
1,321 stories in Murray's papers · page 32 of 67
The War! the Russian Baltic Fleet. Will Sail This Month. Further Japanese Reinforcements. LONDON
The Japs made nine charges before capturing Nanshan. The Russians have abandoned Chenkenshen, Huanshau, and Lushutin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Russo-japanese War. on the Way to Port Arthur. Fierce Fight at Kinchau. Desperate Japanese Charge. London, May 28
Official and newspaper reports from the seat of war confirm the previous accounts of the fighting at Kinchau. They show that the Japanese, after a fierce artillery duel…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Memorial to Soldiers
No body of men gave a better account of themselves in the South African war, where every Australian contingent was awarded unstinted praise by veteran commanders…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →To-Day's Cables. Reported Defeat of Kuropatkin. An Important Russian War Council. The question of Port Arthur. Harbin Preparing;for Seige. LONDON
An unconfirmed telegram has reached Home to the effect that General Kuropatkin has been completely defeated at Somatin with heavy losses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Landing War Material
The Jap military authorities have already landed considerable quani[?] of railway plant in the Lianotung…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General War News. Chinchuses Active. London
Large b[?]lles of Chinchuses, or Chinese, bandits, are stea[?] converging upon the Manchurian railway line to the north of Mukden, with the object of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CABLEGRAMS. War. RUSSO-JAPAN At Port Arthur. Russian Rellef March. a Forlohn Hope. London
General Stalkenberg with a force of 11,000 Russians, who has been marching southwards from the direction of Mukden, has now reached Vagenfan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in Thibet. Further Fighting. London
The Tlillbo[?] have made an attack upon Palla and killed 18 of the British forces. A Choorks outpost by lying in am…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. War! Slaughter at Kinchau. 4000 Wounded and killed. Japanese Hunger for Port Arthur A Supermuman Effort. Filly More Transports Disembark At Nanshan Hill. Losses at Kinchau. Final Japanese Returns. London
The final official returns of the Japanese losses sustained at Kinchan, including the capture of the strongly defended Nanshan Hill, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General War News. Exchange of Prisoners Refused by Russia. London
The proposal recently made by General Baron Kuroki, commanding the First Japanese Army Corps, for a mutual exchange of Prisoners, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams, London, Sunday. the Three Mile Limit. for Nations at War
Earl Percy, Foreign Under Secretary, in replying to a[?] prstion upon the subject, said that, in view of the increased range of modern projectiles, Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Praise of Japan. the Soldiers Wait in the Sea. Owing to the Confined Space
European military erities comment favourably on the Japanese fontal attack on the Russian stronghold at Nanshan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Probable Result of the War
The idea that Russia will ever lose Manchuria is ridiculous. She has spent millions or pounds on the country, and her blood has flown freely there. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Order by the Council of War
Fresh difference have arison between Admiral Alexi[?] and General Kuropatkin, whose mutual jealousy has previously caused serious friction. Admiral…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General War News. Divide Russian Counsels. London
It is uncertain whether the order of the Czar to detach 15,0000 of the army under General Kuropatkin has yet been transmitted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams, the War in Thibet. Authorities Deflant. London
Colonel Younghusband the political officer of the Thibetan Mission, has written a letter giving the latest date up to which he is prepared to meet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. The Assault on Port Arthur. Marshal Yamagata Leads. Russian Relief Plans. Generals in Conflict. LONDON
The correspondent of the Daily Express, at Tokio, states that Field-Marshal Baron Yamagata, the veteran soldier who commanded for Japan in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. War! Continucus Russian Defeats. New Japanese Bead[?] Russians March South. Simut[?] upon [?] Arther Wreck of the Bogatyr Four Russian Defeats. 600 Cossacks Routed. London
General Kuroki reports that while a detachment of Japanese was at Alyang for the purpose of making a reconnoitra towards Samachi, a brisk…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. the War in Thibet. More Troops From India, London
On May 27 a mounted battery and other troops in India were warned to prepare for active service in Thibet…
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