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The wars & local soldiers, 1907

78 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 4

Returned Soldiers Pay

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1907 · page 2

AT the soldiers pay inqquity in Sydney the Commissioner in replying Major Lonshgan who asked whether the expense of men coming down from the country to a appear before the commission would…

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A New War Weapon

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1907 · page 4

Japan has constructed a torpedo to be fired by wireless telegraphy…

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The War with Cancer. Hopeful Prospects

The Uralla News · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 4

It was with mingled reelings that many must have read the article in the "Pall Mall Gazette" of 10th December, upon "The Approaching…

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A Veteran Soldier. Mr. Joseph Cash, of Six-Mile Creak, near Pambula

Guyra Argus · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 7

Few living in the State can show such a record as the gentleman named at the head of this article. Mr. Cash, who will be 78 years of age on…

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Desperate Turkish Soldiers. LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 5

A LARGE number of time-expired Turkish soldiers from Yemen landed starving and ragged at Alexandretta, and threatened to loot the town if unrelieved…

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The Dogs of War

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1907 · page 3

HOW dogs may be need in modern warfare asservants in the cause of humanity is told in The New York Outlook." A greet authority of…

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An Incident of the Afghan War

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1907 · page 3

Just before daybreak on the morning of the 2nd December, 1878, when the troops under General Roberts were about to attack the P[?]iwar Kotal, the men of the 8th…

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Apathetic Soldiers. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 5

The Minister for Defence has called for a report as to the disproportionate attendance of volunteers at camp campared with the militia. A change he say a, must be…

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The Moroocan Puzzle. How the Sultan Wages War

Guyra Argus · Thursday 2 May 1907 · page 8

The “Express” corespondent wrote from Tangiers on 24th January:— It may he said of the situation in Morocco that the more it changes the more…

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Facing a Wounded Tiger

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1907 · page 3

The courage and good nature of elephants when engaged in tiger bunting, are the subject of comment by Gen. Thomas Gordon in…

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War with Airships. Imaginative Forecast

The Inverell Times · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 9

"An extraordinary book has appeared in Germany in which is foretold by its author, Rudolf Martin, the expansion of the German Empire as far as…

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Welcome Home

The Uralla News · Wednesday 15 May 1907 · page 2

A fitting reception was tendered the Rev. E. H. and Mrs. Stammer on their return home on Saturday. A number of friends, including the Rev…

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War and Peace. the Contrast

The Uralla News · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 5

Europe spent in round numbers L200,000,000 on its army and L80,000,000 on its navy in 1906, as against L146,000,000 and L60,000,000 respectively…

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Welcome Home

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 4

AN esteemed correspondent sends us the following lines on His Lordship Bishop O'Connor's return from his travels and tour of the old world:—…

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Welcome Home

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 3

A correspondent sends us the fol lowing lines on His Lordship Bishop O'Connor's return from his travels and tour of the old worlds:—…

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Russo-Japanese War

The Uralla News · Wednesday 19 June 1907 · page 2

In his lecturee on Japan in Sydney, Dr. Jordan threw some striking sidelights on the methods adopted by Japan to prepare herself for the…

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The Mexican Soldier-President

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 7

Perhaps the palm, on the list of modem builders of empire will be awarded to Porfirio Diaz, the Soldier-President of Mexico whose…

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War Disaster Echo. Saved by Burnaby

The Uralla News · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 5

Nottingham Corporation has In its employ In a lowly capacity a man who was once a lieutenant. Mr Wiiiiam John Lee Baker, twenty years ago, was…

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Afghan Runs Amok. One Man Killed. Several Others Wounded. Sydney

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 2

An Afghan hawker, named Chumpter, ran amok at Richmond (North Queensland) on Saturday night. He first shut one Duncan McLean, then…

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Mad Afghan's Crime. One Man Killed. Several Others Wounded

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 5

Charters Towers, Monday: At Richmond on Saturday night, an Afghan hawker, named Chumpter, ran amok He first fired a shot from his caravan…

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