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The wars & local soldiers, 1909

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Soldiers Rescued. London, March 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 42

The apparently hopeless task before the troop of soldiers sent out to rescue a detachment of Austrian soldiers, which was completely overwhelmed by an avalanche…

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A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter XIV.—Continued

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 2

The contest at last was over, and victory—so boldly wooed and won by the allies—hung enamoured over their banners as they floated side by side on the…

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A Soldier of Fortune. —A Tale of the Crimea.— Chapter LXIV.—Continued

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 5

The contest at last was over, and victory—so boldly wooed and won by the allies-hung enamoured over their banner's as they floated side by side on the…

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Retired Soldiers and Sailors As Immigrants to Australia. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 5

Influenced by the suggestions from Australia and Gurula that retired soldiers in receipt of p[?]ns should be allowed to emigrate to these colonies, Mr. Haldane,…

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Alleged Fruit Scandal. Lord Mayor Urged to Wage War. a Generous Correspondent

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 3

The Lord Mayor of Sydney last week received the following letter by post, with a £1 not enclosed:-- "Sydney, March 10, 1000. To His…

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Australia's Soldierly Cadets. Reference by Prince of Wales London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 2

The Prince of Wales on Saturday inspected the Cadels Bettalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, of which regiment he is Colonel in Chief. In a stirring address…

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War-Ship Building. Teaching Australians. London, March 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 42

Mr. Alexander Wilkie, Labor M.P. for Dundee, who is general secretary of the Ship Constructing and Shipwrights' Association, has been interviewed in regard to…

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Ex-War Minister. Mr. Arnold-forster Dead. London, March 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 42

The death is announced at the age of 54 of Mr. Hugh Arnold-Forster, a leading Liberal-Unionist and a former Secretary for War…

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A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter LXV.—Continued

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 5
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

"You had better give in," whispered his backer, one of the men the ex-prize-fighter had been treating, and almost the only one who stuck to him; "you are…

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Veteran Immigrants. Old Soldiers and Sailors. London, March 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 42

In January last Mr. E.S. Scannell, formerly an immigration [?]ent for Western Australia, delivered a lecture before the United Service Institution on emigration…

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A Soldier of Fortune. —A Tale of the Crimea.— Chapter LXV.—Continued

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 5

"You bad better give in," whispered his backer, one of the men the ex-prize-fighter had been treating, and almost the only one who stuck to him; "you are…

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Motor Cars in War. a Highly Successful Feat. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 2

In order to test the practicability of motor cars for use in warfare an interesting experimental run was organised by the Automobile Association of Grant…

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"A War Policy." Mr. Halfour's Censure Motion

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 2

The speech delivered in the House Commons last evening by the Prime Minister has drawn emphatic expressions of approved from the more radical of the…

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Ruin Wrought by War. Causes a Nation's Decay

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 2
Also in The Riverine Grazier, Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press

The phrase, the cost of war remarks a medical expert, writing in "The Scotsman," connotes in the minds of most men merely an…

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Motors for War. Successful Experiment. London, March 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 43

In order to test the practicability of using motor-cars under conditions of warfare, an experiment on an extensive seale was conducted yesterday by the…

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A War Romance. "Maori" Browne. to Marry Lady of Wealth

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 8

The New Year is to be signalised by a romantic military marriage, that fine old campaigner, Colonel "Maori" Browne, being engaged to be married…

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A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter LXVI.—Continued

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 5

"What has occurred?" hastily demanded the Polo. "What has occurred?" repeated Jack; "what never ought to have occurred;…

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