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The wars & local soldiers, 1905

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Cablegrams. War News. the Baltic Squadron. Japanese in Readiness. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 April 1905 · page 2

All the Japanese destroyers at the various Japanese naval bases are being got in readiness to sally forth to attack the Baltic fleet…

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Commissioner of Police Short at and Wounded

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 2

A youth fired a revolver at Colonel Olsechevsky the Commissioner of Police at Odessa, and wondered him. The youth has bee attested…

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New War Inventions by the Japanese

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 4

Japan's success in the present war has not resulted merely from the bravery of her fearless little soldiers and sailors. They have won the…

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The War. the Campaign. Big Russian Movements. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 2

Some important particulars have been received regarding the movements of the Russian army. The forces driven from the railway…

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Cablegrams. War News. the Baltic Squadron. It's Present Position. Off the Coast of Annam. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 2

The captain of the German steamer Prinz Heinrich ann[?]unces that he sighted at noon on Friday eighteen vessels of the Baltic squadron at Ramenaus…

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General War News. Japanese Troops Suffer From Cold. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 April 1905 · page 2

The Milado is applled at the terrible suffering of his troops in Munchurin owing to the cold weather. His Majesty has therefore ordered…

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Cablegrams. (Per Reuter). War News. the Baltic Squadron. Anchored at Kamranh Bay. Indignation in Japan. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 April 1905 · page 2

The prolonged stay of the Baltic Heat at Hamranh Bay has caused intense and indignant surprise in Japan, and it expected that immediate…

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General War News. London, Wednesday, Russians at Kirin

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 April 1905 · page 3

There are now 200,000 Russians in the district running along the branch line of railway from Chanchum to Kirin ( which runs cast from the Southern…

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Cablegrams. War News. the Baltic Squadron. Its Stay in French Waters Navel Base at Kamrani Indignation in Japan London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 April 1905 · page 3

Portion of the Baltic fleet under command of Admiral Rojesvensky is now unchored off the coast of Annam in the Indo-Chinese Peninsula…

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Police Official Wounded. London, April 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 27

An attempt has been made to assasinate the Commissary of Police at Odessa, named Olschevsky. He was shot at with a revolver and wounded by a youth, who was…

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Prize of War is China

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 3

"This war will end when Russia asks for terms of peace. or, in the contrary event, when the last Japanese creature of either sex, capable or…

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War is Growing Less Deadly

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 25

It is a curious and paradoxical thing that the improvement in arms has actually made war less and not more destructive; and that in these days of magazine rifles,…

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Contraband of War. London, April 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 37

In December the British steamer Nigretia. 2368 tons, while running from Shanghai to Vladivostock with a contraband cargo, fell into the hands of the…

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The War. a Russian Baid.london, 18th April

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 2

The Japanese Commander in Chief in Manchuria, Marshal Oyama, has reported to Tokio that on the night of the 15th inst. five squadrons of Russian cavalry…

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The Russo-japanese War. Armies Manoeuvring. London, April 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 37

There are frequent movements of large masses of troops in Manchuria, giving promiss of renewed fighting at a nearly date. Marshal Oyama reports that on the…

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Cable News. the Russo-japanese War. Japanese Movements. London, April 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 26

Chinese spies report that a determined attempt is being made by the Japanese to secure Vladivostock. A large force is marching from the north of Korea on the…

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The War. the Baltic Fleet. Creeping long the Coast. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 2

Reuter's corespondent at Saigon reports the Jaanese cruisers, though they have not et attacked the Baltic fleet, are actively and usefully…

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The War. To-Day's Cables. The Baltic Fleet. Still at Kamranh Bay. Reported Operations in Manchuria. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 1

A French correspondent says that Rozhdestvenski ran close to the Cochin China coast to coal, and scrape the ships' bottoms…

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Fish as War Food. The Fish Eater versus the Beef Eater. Tabloids of Brain and Nerve Food Furnished as Emergency Rations

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 3

I have just seen a specimen of the emergency rations furnished the Japanese Army. It looked like a [?] banana of the largest size, and when…

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Loading Contraband of War. the Strike of Sailors

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 2

Special Instructions have been transmitted to the magistrates at the British Colony of Hong-Kong concerning the sentence of three weeks'…

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