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The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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German Soldier's Terrible Story

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 4

The Berlin "Rheinische Zeitung " publishes the following extract from a letter sent home by A German soldier…

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The War Song. How Japanese Feeling Expresses Itself

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 4

Japanese music is a wonderful thing, and the airs of Japanese songs sometimes remind one of the old, droning Psalm tunes still sung in those remote villages of the…

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The War Office. LONDON, Sunday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 5

SPEAKING on Saturday, the Secretary of State for War said that the chaos at the War Office was so vast that it would take at least a generation to…

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Besebrazeff. Favourite of the Tsar. the Man Who Made War

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 4

When the history of the Russi-Japanese war comes to be written it will be found be have been the work of one man—M. Besobrasoff…

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The War Stores Scandal. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 5

THE warrant and non-commissioned officers who were concerned in the recent war stores scandals have been paraded at Aldershot, reduced to the ranks, and discharged from…

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War Stores Scandal

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 4

The Army Council has considered the repu[?] of the Royal Commission on War Stores in South Africa, which was appointed in June, 1905, to make…

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The Horrors of War. When Sherman Wept

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 4

"The most painful experience I had during the war was near Chicamauga, when it was necessary to take possession of an eminence held by the enemy. The…

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The Sketcher. a Memory of the War

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 27 October 1906 · page 3

The five men appeared to be asleep, for there was no movement noticeable amongst the skins which covered them other than the even rise and fall of human…

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The War

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 4

Writing of the war in South Africa, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kimberley says: —"I can, with a safe conscience, say that I think that England very seldom had a more…

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News in War Time. "An Expensive Nuisance."

The Uralla News · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 4

At the concluding sitting of the Journalists' Conference in Dublin on 5th September, a resolution was adopted agreeing with the necessity for preventing in…

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Soldiers Annihilated

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 6

A French force of 60 men and officers were annihilated at Lake Chad by the natives…

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Cotton. Coming Commercial War

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 10 November 1906 · page 4

Mr F.A. M'Kenzie writes in the "Daily Mail" from Osaka, Japan:-- Cotton is king in the Far East. The Asiatic textile trade is one of…

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Idle Soldiers. a Suggested Reform

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 10 November 1906 · page 3

In the August number of " Broad views," Mr J. W. Petavel, late captain in the Royal Engineers, broaches a proposal that would. If we were wise, lead…

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A Soldier Race. the House of Gough

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 3

General Sir Hugh Henry Gough, V.C., Keeper of his Majesty's Regalia in the Tower, has, writes the "Westminster Gazette," stiffened a sad bereavement by…

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Peace or War?

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 1 December 1906 · page 7

There's a truly " Australian party," And they never have travelled at all, They are foreign to dear mother England…

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A War Invention

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1906 · page 4

A Melbourne syndicate is offering a war invention to the Imperial authorities, the price being £1,000,000. It is stated…

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Citizen Soldiery

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 4 December 1906 · page 4

According to the Melbourne " Leader " the Australian National Defence League has elaborated a scheme for the creation of a national reserve of…

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Telegrams. Murderous Assault at Lismore. Two Syrians Critically Wounded.— Sydney, Thursday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 7 December 1906 · page 3

AT Lismore to-day, a Syrian named Goolooka, who was recently discharged from gaol after serving a sentence for stealing a mail bag, visited the house of a…

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America and Japan. War Predicted. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 5

THE excitement in California over the Japanese question continues to increase. It is now being urged that separate cars should be provided on the railways for…

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New War Offices. Worthy Quarters. Dignified and Imposing

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 15 December 1906 · page 3

In six weeks from to-day (writes the London "Daily News" of 3rd October) the new War Office, built upon the site of Carrington House…

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