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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
68 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 4
The position of affairs in connection with the maritime strike is unaltered, except inasmuch as the increasing gravity of the situation is concerned. So far, there have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →have, for the present, returned to the kennels of peace. How long they will remain in leash is a matter of guesswork. There is every indication that the Government have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Saturday.—San Salvador has rejected the terms of peace submitted by Guatemala and Honduras. It is believed that the war will be renewed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—Another battle has been fought in Central America. The army of San Salvador repulsed the Honduras troops, after five hours' heavy fighting. Great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NO doubt many newspaper readers have seen the statement that it takes a men's weight of lead to kill him in battle, and they may shave considered it to be merely a rhetorical…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Government Gazette has been issued ordering a guard consisting of one non-commissioned officer and six file of arms, with 20 rounds of ball cartridges, to mount guard at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.—Owing to the recent collision between the Socialists and the police after a crowded meeting of Socialists, a brigade of infantry has been brought to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The German men-of-war Le[?]pzig and Sophie arrived in Port Jackson yesterday from China, via New Guinea and singapore. Both vessels carry 12 guns, but the Leipzig carries nearly twice the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ONE reads in Truth:—" I understand that if our friend Tommy Atkins happens to die in the service, £1 for funeral expenses is deducted from whatever assets he may happen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Sunday the Austrian man-of-war Pole (says the Vienna correspondent of the Daily News) left the port of the same name on a voyage of scientific research in deep seas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—It is rumoured that 400 soldiers and a General have been drowned, owing to the collapse of a bridge during the recent manœuvres at Koone, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The secretary of the Seamen and Firemen's Union has warned the various branches of the union to act with extreme caution, as the shipowners, he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DISTRESSING news is just to hand from the Caroline Islands. A large force of natives surprised a detachment of Spanish troops, and forth with put to death a lieutenant and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Tuesday.—General Kaltenborn has succeeded General Verdy du Vernois as Minister for War in Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SINCE the short-service system came into operation it has been the fashion (remarks the Daily News) to sneer at "the boys in the army," but the sneer, it appears, is utterly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The gales off the coast of Yorkshire were of unusual severity. During the storm yesterday 13 men aboard the flagship Camperdown were injured while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—A battalion has been formed from among the Portuguese dents in Rio Janeiro, the capital of Brazil, and dispatched to the Zambesi River, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large ship-rigged French man-of-war, with painted ports, was off Nobbys about 5 p.m. yesterday, and seemed to be making for this port, but when a few miles off she proceeded south. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE torpedo-viso boat Adler, constructed in Germany for the Russian Black Sea fleet, is described by the Russian papers as the fastest war…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →HERE is an account of the manner in which a hero whom Bismarck was commissioned to decorate with the Iron Cross of the First Class,…
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