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The wars & local soldiers, 1886

32 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 2

The War Cloud in Europe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 October 1886 · page 4

WE gather from our files by the last mail that the late revolution in Bulgaria has created a most profound sensation, not only in Europe, but more…

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The Secretary of War on the Continent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 October 1886 · page 5

Mr. Smith, Secretary for War, is proceeding to Vienna…

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The War Feeling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 October 1886 · page 5

The war-cloud is spreading in France, where there is a strong anti-German sentiment…

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St. Petersburg, Tuesday. War Imminent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 October 1886 · page 5

The general opinion expressed by the Russian press is that a pacific solution of the difficulty between Russia and Bulgaria is hopeless…

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The War Scare

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1886 · page 5

A number of transports are being made ready for active service at Odessa, and the dock yards and arsenals are kept busy. It is stated…

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The Tithe War in Wales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 November 1886 · page 8

IT was to be expected, when this agitation once got fairly under way, that it would rapidly extend beyond the borders of Denbighshire into the…

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Select Poetry. Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 December 1886 · page 2

WOUNDED, fainting, lying low Stricken with a heavy blow By the hand you trusted in, What remains to lose or win?…

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Preparations for War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1886 · page 5

The anxiety with regard to the relations of the Powers is being intensified by news of preparations for war. Turkey is massing troops in enormous…

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The War Cloud

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 5

It is reported that all German military-students who are on furlough have been recalled, and ordered to at once join their regiments…

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War Rumours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 December 1886 · page 5

Rumours of the probability of war, resulting from the present situation in Europe, are being circulated…

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Peace or War?

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 December 1886 · page 5

The possibility of an outbreak of war on the Continent in the spring continues to be freely discussed in connection with the strained relations…

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The War Cloud

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 December 1886 · page 5

It is believed by the diplomatists now assembled in Rome that within a few weeks from the present date war will have been…

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