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The wars & local soldiers, 1877

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Cable Messages Latest War News. London. October 8

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 November 1877 · page 1

SEVERAL scientific bodies having made representation to the Privy Council respecting Dr. Hunter researches, Lord Salisbury has sanctioned grants for similar…

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War Correspondents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 November 1877 · page 1

THESE gentleman have become decidedly a necessary institution of last years, and one which increase is in value and importance daily. Twenty years ago,…

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Cab[?] Messages Latest War News. England offers Mediation. Sadler Winner of Scullers' Championship Russian Prospects Improving LONDON. November 2

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 November 1877 · page 1

ENGLAND has offered her services to the Porte as mediator between Turkey and Russia, but the acquiescence of Russia in any peace proposals in very doubtful…

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Earl Beaconsfield on the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 November 1877 · page 1

The Premier, at the banquet at Guild-hall, argued that Turkey had shown a spirit in resisting invasion, which entitled her to a place amongst the Great Powers…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. Fresh Report of the Pope's Death Continued Bombardment of Kars. New French Ministry. LONDON. Nov. 11

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 November 1877 · page 1

LORD BEACONSFIELD hopes soon to be able to bring about the consent of the Great Powers to secure peace and the independence of Europe…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. Russian Loan. Bombardment of Batoum LONDON. Nov. 18

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 November 1877 · page 1

IT is reported that Turkey has made secret propoals of peace to the Great Powers, and offered important concessions to Russin, Roumania, and…

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Latest War News

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 December 1877 · page 1

The following are from the Echo's telegrams from King George's Sound, received on the arrival of the P. and O. Company's mail steamer:—…

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The Russian Losses in the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 December 1877 · page 1

The Russian official statement of the killed and wounded up to the end of October amounts to 60,000…

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The Russo-turkish War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 December 1877 · page 1

The correspondent of to Standard at Nicopolis states that during the twenty days ending, the 9th October, 15,000 of the allied troops died in Bulgaria. The…

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English Opinion on the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1877 · page 4

WHAT with breaks and interruptions in the cable, with the interest attaching to our Parliamentary proceedings, and the pretty general conviction that the…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. Fall of Kars. Frzeroum Invested. War feeling in Greece and Servia. 150,000 Guards called out for defence of Stamboul. Expected Surrender of Plevna. Fall of Plevna Probable. Operation of Mehemet Ali. Health of the Pope. Constitutional Government in Russia. Defeat of the French Ministry. Later Telegrams. Conditions of Plevna. Collision between Turks and Servians. Rumoured Conditions of Peace. Persian Envoy to Russia. Agitation in English Opinion. FRIDAY, Recd, 10 a m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1877 · page 1

THE following important telegrams appeared yesterday as an extra:— LONDON. November 26…

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Cable Messages Latest War News. Official War Telegram

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 December 1877 · page 1

THE following is a copy of a telegram, dated December 6: "Kars was taken after five days and five nights continuous bombardment…

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Incidents of the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 December 1877 · page 2

CAN anything be more appalling than some of the disclosures which occasionally come to light of the horrors which occur, and the fearful atrocities which are…

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The Russo-Turkish War London, November 30

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 December 1877 · page 2

Suleiman Pasha states that the Russian loss at Godikri on Tuesday last was 2000, and that the Turkish loss was 900…

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The War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1877 · page 2

THE shadow of the end we fear, so far as the present campaign is concerned, is approaching. [?]levna has fallen, and [?]SMAN PASHA'S army is no more…

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England and the War. London, December 4

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1877 · page 2

Sir Stafford Northcote, at a Conservative demonstration, repeated the assurances of a conditional neutrally on the part of England, and her readiness to…

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Cable Messages Surrender of Plevna. Osman Pasha wounded. 30,000 Prisoners. 14,000 sick and Wounded. Russians Wish to retain kars. [?]umoured Armistice. Fall of Plevna. Latest Particulars. Conditions of Peace. Desperate Fighting. Arrival of Egyptian Troops. Turkish Victories by Sulieman Pasha. The Turks Capture Timora 6.40 p.m. LONDON. December 12th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1877 · page 2

At eight o'clock on Monday morning, when completely exhausted, Osman Pasha's whole army was attacked by Russian grenadiers on the left band of the…

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Cable Messages Latest Particulars. Servian Army Crossed the Frontier. The Sultan desires Peace. Suicide of Osman Pasha. Meeting at Pesth against Russia. Early Peace considered Impossible. Turkey and Russia have each determined to prosecute the War. 20,000 Turks Starving in Plevna. A Christian President elected at Stamboul. LONDON. December 12th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 December 1877 · page 2

SERVIA has declared war against Turkey, and an army has crossed the frontier. Before assembling the Turkish Parliament the Sultan held a private Council…

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The War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1877 · page 4

"THESE be perilous times, my masters." What we have all along anticipated, is evidently about to come to pass. We have, over and over again, pointed out the position Germany was occupying,…

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Cable Messages Latest Particulars. Porte Soliciting Mediation. Attitude of the Powers. Arrival of Russian Reinforcements. Humoured Meeting of Parliament. Rumoured Purchase of Turkish Fleet Peace Policy in Greece. The Great Powers. Peace Improbable. Advance of the Plevna Troops. The Servians Pressing Forward. English Army to be put on War Footing. Intense Excitement in Europe. LONDON. December 19th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1877 · page 4

A CIRCULAR despatch from the Porte, soliciting mediation led to a proposal for a collected intervention of the European Powers, to stop bloodshed. Italy accepted…

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