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The wars & local soldiers, 1905

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Cablegrams. War. Port Arthur Capitulates Negotiations for Surrender

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 3 January 1905 · page 3

The successive captures of forts and strong positions in the inner defences of port Arthur, and especially the tak [?]the Lungshushan and II Forts…

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CABLEGRAMS. General War News. LONDON, Tuesday. Will There Be Peace? the Question Rests with Russia

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 3 January 1905 · page 3

Viscount Hayashi, the Japanese Minister in London, says that the question of peace between the belligerents rests entirely with Russia…

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Port Arthur Capitulates. the War. Storming the Forts at Port Arthur. How Erl-lung-shan Fell. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 January 1905 · page 2

The mine tunnels made by the Japanese at Erl-lung-shan, which was captured by the besiegers, were cut in the solid rock. Two tons of dynamite…

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CABLEGRAMS. General War News. LONDON, Wednesday. Pitiable Condition of the Czar

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 3

A PREY TO SPIRITUALISM Correpondents in St. Petersburg declare that, since the fall of Port Arthur, the Czar is in a state of mystic…

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Cablegrams. War. At Port Arthur. Terms of Surrender Signed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 3

The commissioner signed the terms of surrender at Port Arthur on Monday night…

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Peace and War

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

Seeing how men are becoming shocked at the horrors of the Russo-Japanese war, and seeing how the Coming Democracy hates appeals to the…

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In case of war

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 3

The First Sussex Artillery Volunteers are said to be the only volunteers corps in the British Empire equipped with an armoured train. The regiment is largely recruited…

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The War. Port Arthur's Falls a Complete Surrender War Ships All Sunk London, 4th January

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

The agreement of capitulation, signed by General Stoessel stipulated that the fortresses, ships, arms, ammunition, war material and all Government property in…

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Cablegrams. War. At Port Arthur. LONDON, Thursday. General Stoessel Prostrated

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

General Stoessel, after the severe strain of the siege, is now ill in bed…

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Great War Loan. Russia Borrows £25,000,000. London, December 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 26

Russia is again going into the market to raise money to finance the war. She has arranged for a loan of £25,000,000, at 4½ per cent., to be raised partly at home and…

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The War. Port Arthur. a Complete Surrender. Only Officers Paroled. The Capitulation Terms. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

The agreement of capitulation, signed by General Stoessel, stipulated that the fortress, ships, arms, ammunition, war material and all Government…

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Fall of Port Arthur Terms of Surrender Signed. Graphic Description of the Town. Effect on the War

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 5

The news of the capitulation of Port Arthur, made public in Corowa on Tuesday, is fully confirmed, and a tremendous sensation has been…

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War to be Continued. Meeting of the Russian Council of War. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 2

The correspondent at St. Patersburg of the "Daily Express" says that at a meeting of the imperial Council of War, at which the Czar presided it…

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Cablegrams. (Per Reuter) War. At Port Arthur

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 2

The transfer of Port Arthur to the Japanese has now been completed…

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General War News. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 2

JAPAN FORTIFYING QUELPART The Japanese are now fortifying Quelpart a rock-[?], wooded Island On the south-east on Korea, [?]…

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Cablegrams. the War to Be Continued

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 2

A a council of Ministers held in St. Petersburg it was decided that any suggestion of peace on the part of Russia would be incompatible with…

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Cablegrams. War. At Port Arthur. LONDON, Sunday. Japanese in Possession

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 2

The Japanese are now in possession of all the forts at Port Arthur…

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The Emperor of Germany on the War. He Warned the Russians

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 2

The vienna correspondent of the "Times" states that the kaiser, on the eve of the war, urged the Czar to reflect, before rejecting japan's terms…

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Aid for the Wounded. H.M.S. Andromeda Turned Back

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 4

Warm appreciation is expressed in London of the mission of mercy undertaken by the first class British cruiser Andromeda, which left Wei-hai-wei…

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The War. Port Arthur's Fall. Clearing the Harbour. War-Ships May be Raised. Stoessel to Visit Tokio. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 2

The Japanese are now in possession of all the Port Arthur forts, and a force has entered the town for the purpose of keeping order until the formal entry…

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