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The wars & local soldiers, 1911

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War News. Chinese RebeBIion. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 November 1911 · page 4

HEAVY fighting is in progress at Hankow. The town is being bombarded nightly. It is reported that the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy was induced to…

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German War Scare

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 November 1911 · page 7

The National Liberal paper, "Korrespondenz" says the chief complaint against the Government was that it had failed to enlighten the public as…

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"Dogs of War" in the Leash

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 November 1911 · page 7

"During the critical period of the discussion between Germany and France over the Moroccan situation. Great Britain's North Sea Fleet was…

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Panicky Soldiers

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 November 1911 · page 7

A number of gunners and infantrymen have been sentenced to three weeks imprisonment for cowardice in abandoning their arms in panic at…

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How War Relics Are Faked

The Inverell Times · Friday 24 November 1911 · page 5

A careful observer who has visited many of the world's great battlefields declares that the greater part of the mementoes, of which…

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The Italo-Turkey War. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 November 1911 · page 4

A HARROWING story of the condition of Tripoli is told by Major Richardson, who managed to get into the city in a provision ship in company with four Italian journalists…

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Japanese War Boat Founders

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 November 1911 · page 7

The destroyer. Harasume foundered in a gale off Cape Shima. Fortyfive were drowned…

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C a B L E G R a M S. L O N D O N, Monday. the War

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 November 1911 · page 4

Turkey is relying on the Powers objecting to the proposed blockade of the Dardanelles by Italy, as such a course would contradict Italy's pub…

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Breeder of War. United States Senate Committee

Guyra Argus · Thursday 30 November 1911 · page 6

A report to the Senate by the Foreign Relations Committee characterises the British and French arbitration treaties as "breeders of war, not peace" (says…

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The Chinese War

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 December 1911 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—The rebels are reported to have attacked Shanghai. Five thousand were killed in the engagements, in which 30,000 rebels took part. The…

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Cablegrams. London, Thursday. the Turco-italian War

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 December 1911 · page 4

English correspondents charge Arabs with having committed unspeakable atrocities at Eli Henni, Tripoli. The Italians were mutilated,…

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Three Young Men Wounded

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 4 December 1911 · page 5

During the course of a free fight at Haymarket on Saturday night a young man, whose identity is unknown, drew a revolver, and fired…

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Reign Of Carnage. Shooting Without a Trial. in Tripoli. Fiendish Soldiers. Report by Eye-witness. Dreadful Orublty

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 4 December 1911 · page 4

(By Telegraph from Fremantic.) The London "Daily Mirror," one of the Harmeworth publications, has been publishing some excellent…

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War News Chinese Rebellion. LONDON, Sunday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1911 · page 4

THE Revolutionaries in southern Manchuria have been active, defeating the Imperialists at Wafantsen and beheading their commander…

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The Italo-Turkey war. LONDON, Sunday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1911 · page 4

ITALIANS, with fixed bayonets, repulsed the Turkish and Arab attack on Tripoli. The Turks, it is stated, lost heavily, the Italian Artillery shelling the fugitives…

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General Lee's Surrender. the End of the Confederati War

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1911 · page 3

Mr. A. R. H. Ranson, in an article en ''General Lee as I Knew Him," contributed to "Harper's Magazine," gives an interesting account of the…

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"The War Lord."

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 December 1911 · page 4

Mr. Andrew Carnegie had an interview with the Kaiser, who said that the title of "War Lord" bestowed on him was a libel. He…

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German Blunders. "War with England Inevitable." Berlin

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1911 · page 6

ACCORDING to Herr Max Harden, editor of the "Zukurft," in an exclusive interview published in the "United Press," the Anglo-German war was a…

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At the Close of the War. a Vivid Picture

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 8 December 1911 · page 6

We had come to the end of May, when the eyes of the whole American continent turned towards Richmond. On the 31st Johnston assaulted the…

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Britain and Germany. London, Tuesday. War Risks

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 10

Disquieting inquiries, emanating from Germany, have been made in London as to the rates of insurance to cover the risk of war between…

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