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The wars & local soldiers, 1910

187 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 10

The Negro Holocaust Story of the Centreville Tragedy. Thirty-five Convicts Burnt to Death. Others Shot Dead and Wounded London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 19 May 1910 · page 2

Additional particulars have been received concerning the burning to death of a large number of negro prisoners in a stockade at Centreville, Alabama, on Monday…

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Cablegrams. (Per Reuter.) Republic's Civil War. the Nicaraguan Revolution. a Rebel Reverse. Battle in Progress at Bluefields. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 26 May 1910 · page 2

Desultory fighting is still in progress in Nicaragua between the Government forces and the rebels. A telegram received in New York states…

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Nicaraguan Civil War. Fierce Fighting at Bluefields

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 31 May 1910 · page 2

Fierce fighting has taken place in Nicaragua between the Government troops under General Lara and the rebel forces under General Estrada…

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Miniature Republics War Between Ecuador and Peru. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 31 May 1910 · page 2

A few days ago it was reported that both Ecuador and Peru were prepared to accept arbitration in their frontier dispute. The situation has, however, changed again…

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Aeroplane in War

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 1 June 1910 · page 4

When men find themselves confronted by a hostile army, they are willing to run risks it would, be folly to incur in time of peace…

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Nothing Serious. a War of Wits

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 1 June 1910 · page 3

"Do you keep chicken food?" inquired the customer. The shopkeeper grinned facetiously. "No." he said; "we sell it." The…

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Soldiers' Love of Animals

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 1 June 1910 · page 4

The British soldier always has a soft corner in his heart for animals of all sorts, and a regiment without its complement of these would be…

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Peru and Ecuador. War Seems Inevitable. London, May 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 June 1910 · page 43

It was announced a few days ago that Ecuador had accepted the mediation of the United States, Argentina, and Chili, in the dispute with Peru over the boundary…

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The German Army Soldiers Drilled to Death. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 2

The manoeuvres of the German Army are notorious for the severity of the tests imposed on the men who take part in them. Another instance of this has been…

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Exhausted Soldiers

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 2

The Baden infantry regiment, stationed as Rhonish, Prussia, was so severely exercised on the drill ground, that 50 men fell out of the ranks exhausted…

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South American War-cloud

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 6 June 1910 · page 2

The powers, who undertook to jointly arbitrate in the dispute between Ecuador and Peru, viz., the United States, Brazil, and the Argentine Republic, a few days…

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Situation at Nanking Britishers Guarded by Men-of-war. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 2

The latest news from Nanking, where an anti-Manchu revolution is threatening, is not reassuring. The foreign consuls in the town warned the subjects of their respective…

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War in the Air. French Aerial Fleet

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 10 June 1910 · page 8

The news that the French Government is to receive two steerable balloons and three military aeroplanes as a gift from private generosity has come…

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Is War in the A[?] Possible ? a Striking Book About an Important Modern Problem

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 11 June 1910 · page 3

In England most people still refuse to believe that the airship is, or for long will be, a formidable engine of war. The War Departments…

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Girl Shot Dead. Young Man Wounded

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 17 June 1910 · page 4

A terrible crime occurred at Rockhampton (Q.) on Wednesday night. The distribution of prizes was to have been made at St. Paul's schoolroom, and a large crowd…

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Nothing Serious. a War of Wits

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 June 1910 · page 3

"Do you keep chicken food ?" inquired the customer. The shopkeeper grinned facetiously. "No," he said; "we sell it." The…

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Germany and England. Soldiering Ob Slavery an Alternative. Reprinted From “The Daily Mail” (London) No. Ix

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 4

Lycurgus told the Greeks that “the best walls a city can have are walls of brave men trained to arms.” All the Continental national have put the idea into practice, But…

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Short Story. a Soldier of Brittany

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 2

It was in the country, near the forest not far from the Seine, in the modest villa where I hoped to spend my old age, that I saw Jean de Thommeray for the first time. He…

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Police Charge a Funeral with Drawn Sabres. Many People Wounded. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 28 June 1910 · page 2

During a brawl in Paris last week between some men who were out on strike and the police a cabinet maker was killed. His funeral was held yesterday, and it was…

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Imperial Defence. Military Estimates Est the House of Commons. Statement by the Minister for War. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 2

The debate on the Army Estimates is in progress in the House of Commons. Mr. Haldane, Minister for War, declared that the representatives of the Dominions…

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