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The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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The Boer War

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 4

The Boer War Compensation Commission has examined claims amounting to £62,000,000, besides £2,500,000 of military receipts Of £9,000,000…

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War With China. Big Preparations in America. Washington, February 12

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 7

The First and Second Regiments of United States Infantry and the Eighth and Thirteenth Batteries of Light Artillery are on the sea, en route for…

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"The Coming War.'

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 6

"SEESTERN, 1906," is the title of a remarkable book published anonymously in Berlin last month which deals with the possibility of a war between Great…

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To War Public

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 April 1906 · page 5

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Labor Party Declares War

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 20 April 1906 · page 3

THE Labor Conference in Melbourne spent all Saturday morning discussing the proposals made by the Chamber of Manufactures for carrying on a joint protection…

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Workless Soldiers in England

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1906 · page 3

MANY soldiers who were invalided out of the army after the Boer war are now on the tramp, the casual wards of the workhouse in England…

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A Soldier,s Baptism of Fire

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 2

A commanding officer was taking his forces into action. He sent forward a small party of men to make gaps in a rail fence to avoid the…

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Turkey's War Strength

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 8 May 1906 · page 2

The total war strength of Turkey is estimated to be 40,400 officers, 1,5[?]1,600 men, 1530 guns, and 109,900 horses. The army has been trained and reorganised…

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Turkey's War Strength

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 5

The total war strength of Turkey is estimated to be 46,400 officers, 1,531,600 men, 1530 guns, and 109,900 horses. The army has been trained and reorganised largely by…

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Prospects of a War

Guyra Argus · Friday 11 May 1906 · page 6

Turkey has received from Great Britain an ultimatum winch expires to-morrow. If Turkey doesn't comply by removing her troops from the…

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The Aftermath of War. Workless Soldiers

The Inverell Times · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 3
Also in The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record

Many soldiers who were invalided out of the Army after the Boer war are now on the tramp, the casual wards of the country's workhouses being their…

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ENGLAND v. Turkey. the Chances of War

The Inverell Times · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 7

A Sydney contemporary writes:—A war with Turkey, under existing conditions is not a thing to be lightly entered…

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Will there be War? England and Turkey

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 2

Turkey has created trouble to the Egyptians by removing boundary marks and claiming the S[?] Peninsula…

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War Preparations by Turkey and England. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 6

Turkey is Bending artillery and strong reinforcements to Akaba and to Tabah (at the head of the Gulf of Akaba)…

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War Preparations. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 May 1906 · page 7

Rear Admiral Lambton, with H.M.S. Minerva, has proceeded to watch the Suez Canal. The Sultan's advisers anticipate that…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 May 1906 · page 3

A memorial to the New South Wales troops who fell in South Africa was unveiled at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday by the State Governor…

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War of 1910. Ex Cabinet Minister on the Possibilities

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 23 May 1906 · page 7

It seems hardly possible that France would ever join Germany in an attack upon Great Britain, but Mr. G. J. Shaw-Lefevre—an ex-Cabinet…

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Why the Japanese are Great Soldiers

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 4

To realise what great soldiers the little chaps of Japan really are one should not only see them in battle, but in the hospital…

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Fighting Zulus. Courageous Ladies and Heroic Soldiers

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 June 1906 · page 3

The following account of the attack on Colonel Mansell's men on April 5 is from the Rand 'Daily Mail': "Telegram. O.C. Troops,…

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