Cost of the War
It is stated on the highest Authority that the Cape War contribution will be ten million pounds…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1903
115 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 6
War Items
A front seat—The seat of war. An English general is, so to say, giving the Boers "some lessone in French." It appears that the Boers are paying the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Inquiry. General Buller in the Box. LONDON, February 19
GENERAL Sir Redvers Buller, V.C., gave evidence yesterday before the Royal Commission into the conduct of the late war presided over by Lord Elgin. General…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Soldiers. Remarks by Judge Dooker
When sentencing a prisoner named Hubert Nolan at the Orange Quarter Sessions on Thursday, for receiving cattle knowing them to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Evils of War
AT the beginning of the United States war with Spain a teacher of a primary class told some of her boys about the war, and asked all who favored it to hold up their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers' Memorial
ON Thursday (third day of Show) his Excellency Sir Harry Rawson will unveil the memorial lamp erected by the citizens to pereetuate the valor and patriotism of those Central New England soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some Great Men's Defects. Poets, Soldiers, and Scientist Alike Afflicted
Homer, tradition tells us, was blind, though it is unlikely that he was born [?] since his fine appreciation of colour as shown in such expressions as "rosy-fingered dawn" "the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Memory of the War
A SMALL party, led by the commander, enters the farm to see if any stragglers still lurk within it. What a scene! Piles of blankets, saddles, impediments of all sorts,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Where the Tin Soldiers Come From
TIN soldiers issue forth in vast armies of every nation under the sun from the workshops of Nuremberg. Most of them come from Herr Rupprecht's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sensational Suicide. General Sir Hector MacDonald. Sad End of Distinguished Soldier. LONDON, March 25
It is reported that Sir Joseph Ridgeway, Governor of Ceylon, has been authorised to convene a court-martial to try Brigadier-General Sir H[?]ctor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. We do not necessarily endorse our Correspondents remarks. Soldiers' Memorial
SIR,--Let us hope proposed additions to the Soldters' Memorial won t impart to that evidence of our patriotism a graveyard aspect. I believe Mr. Anschau has a beautiful design for a railing,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How War Pictures are Made
The war in the Transvaal has inspired the editor of a Paris illustrated paper with a highly ingenious idea, says SOUTH AFRICA. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mortality in War. Some Figures
The conditions of warfare differ so greatly that no exact inference can necessarily be drawn from past statistics as to the mortality likely to prevail in any particular…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fortune of War
"I' m not in the habit of interfering, as you are well aware," said Mrs. Ferrais, senior, to Mrs. Ferrais, junior. "It be always a thanklees task, especially in any difference…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stirring War Cries. From Historic Battlefields
Various battle-cries, says the "Regiment," have been employed by nations in their various conflicts, a feet brought to our mind by America's battle cry in the recent struggle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wounded in Battle
VERY few people, when talking to a soldier, says the Brussels La Ri[?]ue Rose, who has been wounded in battle, fail to ask him what his feelings were when hit : every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Cloud
Russia is moving in the East in opposition to Great Britain, her ally, Japan, and America. China is helpless unless…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Song of the Crimean War
"Annie Laurie" was the song in youngest during the Crimean war, and the circumstance is recalled by the following verses which are published in the London Press:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fate of a War Balloon
During the siege of Paris in the France-German war no less than sixty-four ballons made their ascent from the capital. Out of this number only two "came to grief." One…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Souvenirs of War. The Marechale MacMahon
The marriage of Mme. de MacMahon, who died the other day in Paris, was a made-up one. Her uncle was in the early years of MacMahon's career in Algeria, his…
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