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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
232 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 12
LONDON, Monday Night.—The latest revelations show that Greece was hopelessly unprepared for war. There are no reserves of cannon, rifles,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thursday.—A Greek ironclad captured a schooner at the entrance to the Gulf of Salonica. Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, member of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The resolution of the Greek Government to die in the last ditch has produced no alteration in the situation in their blood-deluged country. Providence, for the time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—Advices have just reached London stating that a great battle is raging at Phersala between the Greeks and the Turks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday.—The Marquis of Salisbury, speaking at a meeting of the Primrose League last night, spoke pointedly in regard to the war between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Saturday.—An article in the London Times states that the opinion in the Rand gains ground that the Transvaal will never actively insist…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Later details of the battle of Phersala to hand state that the Greek centre was cut by the Turks. The Greeks just escaped being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Losses fall thick and fast on the rash and unfortunate Greeks. It will hardly be any consolation to them to know that Lord Salisbury considers the confining of the struggle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Saturday.—The war party in the Transvaal are disgusted at the concession made by the Volksraad in repealing the alien immigrants law…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—Greece has sent a note to the Powers offering to gradually withdraw her troops from Crete, and adding that she expects a 15 days'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—Captain Nesbitt, of the Mashonaland Mounted Police, and Trooper Henderson, of Buluwayo, have been awarded the Victoria Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN the Town Hall this afternoon a meeting was held of persons in sympathy with the Greeks in their present disasters, to take preliminary steps to raise funds for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—The Turks, in strong force, are advancing upon Domoko by the Almyro line…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CONSTANTINOPLE, Tuesday.—The military party are pressing the Sultan to accept from Greece the following terms of peace:—Three millions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The Duke of Sparta (the Crown Prince), the Greek commander, has been further blamed for his conduct of the war, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The Greek army at Domoko are compelled to bivouac in the open, exposed to rain and cold. Thousands of refugees from places…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The Greek western fleet has bombarded Syra, in Epirus…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The Government of Greece complains that the delay on the part of Turkey in agreeing to an armistice is unfair, especially since…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Colonel Staikes, Commander-in-Chief of the Greek Forces in Crete, has been ordered to immediately re-embark 430 soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The Turkish squadron has captured eleven Greek vessels, and has taken them into the Straits…
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