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The wars & local soldiers, 1911

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Cable News. Italy and Turkey. Treachery of Arabs. Italian Soldiers Shot. Tripoli, October 26

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 November 1911 · page 42

The majority or the Italian soldiers who were wounded during the encounter on Monday with the Turkish and Arab horsemen were shot from the walls of the town…

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The Turco-italian War Rumored Rout of the Italians at Tripoli. Great Elation at Constantinople. Italian Army to be Increased to 100,000 Men. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 November 1911 · page 1

It is stated that more Italian Reservists have been summoned for service in Tripoli, and the army of occupation will be increased to 100,000…

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An Incident of the South African War. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 4 November 1911 · page 5

Colonel Seely, Under Secretary of State for War, replying to a question asked by Mr. H. Page Croft, Conservative member for Christchurch, in the House of…

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Wounded Soldiers Killed and Robbed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 6 November 1911 · page 2

Italian officers in Tripoli are making' charges of cruelty against the Arabs. They assert that many of the wounded Italian soldiers were killed by the enemy in cold…

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Cablegrams. (Per Reuter.) War in Tripoli. German Ambassador's Influence. Caused Evacuation of Tripoli. Constantinople

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 6 November 1911 · page 2

A sensation has been caused by a statement to-day by Hakki Pasha, ex-Grand Vizier, who resigned early in October in consequence of the adverse criticism to…

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Military Executions. "Soldiers Drunk with Lust of Vengeance." Rome

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 6 November 1911 · page 2

A correspondent of a Turin paper who sent a message via the frontier from Tripeli states that he had witnessed several executions. He says that a man and his…

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Italy Determined to End War. Home

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 2

It is semi-officially announced that General Frugoni, an army corps commander, is about to proceed to Tripoli to take over the conduct of operations from…

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Cablegrams. Men Drunk with Blood. Blood Crazed Fiends Wounded Soldier Crucified Dreadful Horrors of Turkish-italian War. Soldiers Roam with Revolvers. Malta

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 9 November 1911 · page 2

Mr. M'Cullagh, the special correspondent of the "Westminster Gazette," states that parties of Italians with revolvers in their hands marched about, literally drunk with…

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British Soldier Horrified. Tripoli, (Via Tunis), November 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 42

Lieutenant Harold G. Montagu, of London, who is serving with the Turkish forces in Tripoli, says that he has seen the mutilated bodies of at least 100 women and…

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War Vessels Ready for Sea

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 11 November 1911 · page 5

The H.M.S. Pegasus, which has been out of commission at Garden. Island for some time, was manned to-day and taken into dock for cleaning and painting. The…

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War. How a Fleet Was Torpedoed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 11 November 1911 · page 3

The Harpy, a little "splashed" with splinter hits, out, as a whole, none the worse for the night's work, steamed steadily shorewards…

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The Horrors of War. Desperate Turkish Attacks. Malta

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 14 November 1911 · page 2

A large number of refugees are arriving from Tripoli. They are described as being terrified at the horrors of the war, and the ravages of cholera in the city. It is…

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Attacked by a Lunat[?] an Archbishop Wounded. St. Petersburg

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 November 1911 · page 2

A great sensation was caused on Sunday in a church at Volhynia, in South-West Russia. While the Archbishop of Volhynia was…

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Political Crisis in Japan. Regarding War Minister's Loan Proposals. Tokio

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 November 1911 · page 2

Proposals put forward by the Ministers of Marine and War to raise a loan for naval ana military expansion have resulted in a crisis. The Minister of Finance…

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"Murderers and Mongrel Scum." Scandalous Libels on British Soldiers. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 16 November 1911 · page 2

In the House of Commons Colonel Seely, on behalf of the Government, promised to see if it be possible to remove from the commission of the peace Mr. Wilfred Bunt,…

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Welcome Home

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 17 November 1911 · page 2

Mr Gorman’s, welcome home has been finally arranged to take place on Wednesday 29th inst, at 8.30 p.m. Tender forms were sent out last…

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Burning of Hankau. Both Sides Kill Wounded. Peking, November 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 November 1911 · page 6

The fire caused by the shelling of Hankan by the Imperial troops, which completely destroyed two-thirds of the city, was also very destructive of life…

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Great Britain and Germany. War Frustrated Last September. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 17 November 1911 · page 2

Extraordinary statements were made by. Mr. A. Ponsonby. Liberal M.P. for Stirling Burghs, and Sir W. P. Byles, Liberal M.P. for Salford North, and other members of…

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Soldiers Mutiny and Rob Banks Peking

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 17 November 1911 · page 2

Intelligence has been received of a mutiny amongst the Imperialist troops stationed at Tsin-Kiang-pu, near Nanking, in the province of Kiang-su…

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The Chinese Revolution Thirty Thousand Soldiers Rebel. Marching on Nanking. Peking

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 18 November 1911 · page 2

From consular reports received to-day from Nanking, it would appear that the Imperialist forces in the city, who are responsible for terrible excesses, will soon…

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