The War Scare
THE Russian warship scare exists in India as well as Australia. According to newspapers to hand by this mail, the inhabitants of Calcutta were thrown…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1885
269 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 14
France-Chinese War
LONDON, Saturday.—A hitch has occurred in carrying out the terms of the treaty between France and China…
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On the authority of a Russian diplomatist it is stated that neither the Czar, his Ministers, nor his Generals ever entertained the faintest idea of…
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IT is reported from New York that some remarkable experiments have just taken place with projectiles charged with dynamite, but discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Embarkation of the Contingent They Receive a Cordial "Send-off." Australian Soldierly Conduct Appreciated
SUAKIM, Sunday evening.—The New South Wales Contingent embarked on board the steamer Arab this morning, and were warmly cheered by the British…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Old England Sea Kings. Gerald Massey's Views on War
AT West's Academy lately Mr. Gerald Massey delivered, for the second time in Sydney, his lecture on "Old England's Sea Kings," to a very large…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Cloud
THE war cloud has by no means dispersed, as most of us had fondly imagined. On the contrary, it is beginning to gather again, and latest advices look…
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THE news that the Ameer has sent a battery of artillery to Herat, and that the Russians object to England fortifying that city, will be joyful tiding to…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Orders have been given that the western channel in the harbour is to remain closed with the torpedoes. Arrangements are now being made with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Civil War in Samoa
LONDON, Friday.—Civil war has broken out in Samoa. The King has declared against the chief Tamsese…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Russia and England. Russia Again Obstructive. War Once More Imminent. the Ameer of Afghanistan Defends Herat
LONDON, Thursday.—The Standard states that Russia claims Meruchak, a few miles below Penjdeh; also that Russia objects to the British fortifying any portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Invalided Soldiers
Colonel Richardson telegraphs that the infantry invalided at Suakim are to be sent by one of the Orientsteamers, arrangements for doing which have been made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Is Russia Ready for War?
AMIDST the present uncertainty with regard to our position, in the event of war with Russia in the immediate future, it may not be amiss to enquire,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russian Man-of-War
SYDNEY, Monday.—The corvette Djigget has arrived at Honolulu…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TELEGRAMS. The German War Ships
LONDON, Wednesday.—The German warships Stosch, Albert, and Elizabeth have been ordered to proceed to Zanzibar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Last Russian War
ON the 28th of March, 1885, now thirty-one years ago, appeared a supplement to the London Gazette containing a declaration of war by England…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Spear As a Weapon of War
The spear and its history is coeval with man, ever since the days of our cave-dwelling ancestors and their burned-tipped sticks. Its varieties are…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →New Chum's Opinion on Topical Questions. War Declared!
WHAT'S all this about the little man who recently drew the eyes of the whole world upon us? Can it be true that, upon the Imperial Jingoes…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Cost of War
IN the case of a war prolonged over one campaign, very few of the London dailies could afford to stand the cost alone. Figaro says:—"During the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The steamer Guthrie has arrived at Port Darwin from Hongkong. She brings news that before leaving China the French had landed…
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