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The wars & local soldiers, 1907

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War in Northern Africa Night Attack Repulsed. Three Hundred Moors Killed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 December 1907 · page 2

A large force of Moors made a stubborn and severe attack upon a French force near tins Algerian village of Menarselkiss on Friday night…

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Cablegrams. War in Northern Africa. French and Moors. the Menasseb Night Attack. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 3 December 1907 · page 2

Further details have been received of the great fight which took place on Friday between the French troops and the Moors on the Algerian frontier…

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War in Northern Africa Selfishly Provoked by Franck. German Insinuations. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 4 December 1907 · page 2

It is insinuated in semi official newspapers published in Germany that France has selfishly and deliberately provoked the outbreak of the Benihussen tribe in Algeria…

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A Woman As a Soldier. a Russian Heroine

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 7

An interesting story of a woman soldier is told by the Russian official military journal. A girl named Xenia Kritskaya, moved by intense…

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A Tale of the Boer War

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 4

Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the war correspondent, tells an amusing story of the Boer War.—Whilst at Nq'Meli Mountain, 18 miles east of Vryheid…

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Tobacco War. Armed Mob Loots a Town. London, December 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 42

A tobacco war between planters and dealers is raging at Hopkinsville, in Kentucky. Four hundred armed and masked men attacked the city, and, having secured…

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The British Navy. Two-power Standard in Danger Speech by the Secretary for War. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 2

Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, addressing a meeting at Hanley last night, said that the time might come when it would not be so easy a problem…

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British and German War-ships. Shipbuilding Programme. London, December 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 42

The extensive shipbuilding programme for the navy proposed by the German Government is exciting much attention, in Britain. The statement Of Her von…

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Speak Pakeha—live or Die. an Incident in the Maori War. (Copyright.)

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 1

We Australians, with few exceptions, as yet know little of those twin islands, sea girt by the Pacific, lying some few hundred miles South…

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A Voluntary Target. a Soldier's Splendid Heroism

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 19

James Collis was a gunner of the 66th regiment in the Afghan War of 1880. During the retreat from Maiwand the troops toiled on through the black night, the Afghans…

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Wounded on the Battlefield

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 2

Doctors may err, as you know, even in the stillness of the sick room. How much more, then, are they likely to make mistakes in the uproar of…

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Paying Off Scores. Cilalked Up in the Russo-apanese War. General Kuropatkin on Trial. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 2

General kuropatkin, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army which operated in Manchuria during the late war with Japan is being court-martialled at St…

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Wounded on the Battlefield

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 4

Doctors may err, as you know, even in the stillness of the sick-room. How much more, then, are they likely to make mistakes in the up-…

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Mutiny of Russian Soldiers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 2

Four mutineers of the Brest Regiment, which is stationed at Sevastopol, which recently mutinied, have been sentenced to death. Another nine of the soldiers have…

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Has War Become Impossible

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 December 1907 · page 41

Yes, replies M. Bloch, in a remarkable conversation reported in the May supplement of the "Review of Reviews." War on a great scale between great Powers has already…

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PortArthur. Proposal on the Eve of War. London, 19th December

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 December 1907 · page 30

General Kuropatkin, who was Commander-in-Chief of the Russian forces in the war with Japan up to 17th March, 1905, has given interesting evidence before the…

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The Trouble in Zululand. How the Natives Prepare for War with White Men

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 December 1907 · page 4

According to a recent cable, operations against the discontented Zulus hare commenced, ton trainful of troops having gone to Ginginghlove,…

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The War in Morocco

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 30 December 1907 · page 2

General Drude, who has been in charge of the French forces operating in Morocco against the rebels, has retired from his command on the score of ill-health. He…

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Holland's Endless War. the Acheen Drain

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 December 1907 · page 2

"It is as the heir of Holland that Germany hopes to find scope for her ambition in the Pacific," says the Broad Arrow. "The Dutch Colonies are not…

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