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The wars & local soldiers, 1895

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The China-japan War

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1895 · page 3

It is reported front Shanghai that England and Russia have offered to mediate between Japan and China, with a view to peace. The Czar will not sanction the…

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The Corean War. LONDON, Feb. 14

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1895 · page 3

ADMIRAL Count Ito, the Japanese commander, has granted the terms upon which Admiral Ting offered to surrender, and has received the Chinese officers and men with the honors of war…

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The War in the East. [By Cable.] London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1895 · page 5

IT is reported from Shanghai that England and Russia have offered to mediate between Japan and China with a view to peace…

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The China-Japan War. London, Feb. 16

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 4

The Japanese are trying to raise the men-of-war which were sunk in the battle at the mouth of the Yalu River…

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Cablegrams. Sydkey, Tuesday. The China-Japan War. a Big Ordee

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 2

The Emperor of China has ordered the execution of all the military and civil officers engaged in the unsuccessful defence of Wei Hai Wei…

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The Eastern War. London

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1895 · page 5

A number of foreign warships have arrived off Formosa in order to protect the interests of foreign residents…

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The Corean War. LONDON, Monday, February 18

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1895 · page 5

THE report that Admiral Ting, the Chinese Commandant at Weihaiwei, who surrendered with all his command to Count Ito, the Japanese commander, afterwards committed suicide has been…

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The War in the East. [By Cable.] London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1895 · page 5

THE Japanese Parliament has voted a further sum of £16,000,000 for the continuance of the war in China, and has also voted £500,000 as a loan for Corea…

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The War in the Future. a Terrible Picture

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1895 · page 6

MR. Archibald Forbes, in 'Scribner's Magazine' for June, asks: What will be done with the wounded in the next great war? The article will open a…

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Two SOLDIERS

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 March 1895 · page 8

The Figaro the other day referred in an editorial note to the visit paid by the Duke of Cambridge to Marshal Canrobert, previous to his death…

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The Horrors of War

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1895 · page 3

A number of wells at a village in the vicinity off Chefoo were choked with the bodies of women and children, who either were killed or committed suicide for fear of falling into the hands of the…

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The Horrors of War. [By Cable.] London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1895 · page 5

A NUMBER of wells at a village m the vicinity of Chefoo are choked with the bodies of women and children, who hare been either killed or committed suicide for fear…

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Cablegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. The China-Japan War, Peace Negotiations

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 2

The pence negotiations between China and Japan are progressing favourably…

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The War in the East

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 2

The visit of Li-Hung-Chang, the Chinese Viceroy, to the Emperor at Pekin is understood to have changed the opinions of the Court there as to…

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The China-Japan War. China. Again Defeated. Two Thousand Chinese Killed

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 4

The Japanese captured Newchang on Monday after desperate fighting. Two thousand Chinese were killed, and six hundred captured. Three…

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London. Sunday the Eastern War

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1895 · page 3

The Japanese having captured the port of YingKow, the Chinese in retreating upon Newchwang, fought desperately, but were mowed down by the Japanese artillery at close range…

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Late Cables. Japanese Minister for War

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 2

General Yamagata, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese army, who, has distinguished himself in connection with the war with China, has been…

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Cablegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. The China-Japan War, Chinese Routed. Willing to Make Peace

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 2

In the engagement at Thienchwangtal, the Japanese shells wrought such fearful havoc that General Tang at last ordered his troops to retreat,…

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The Corean War. LONDON, Sunday, March 10

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1895 · page 5

THE Figaro, one of the leading daily papers of Paris, declares that England and France will insist upon the status upon being maintained in China, and will not. permit the seizure of the Island of Formosa…

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Cablegrams. Sydney, The China-Japan War. a Knotty Question

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 4

The peace negotiations between China nnd Japan appear to be blocked owing to the attitude of the European Powers on the question of the session…

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