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The wars & local soldiers, 1897

232 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 12

CABLEGRAMS. The Greeo-Turkish War Question of Indemnity. Guileless Proposal by Russia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 May 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—It is now announced that Russia is willing to assume the amount of the Greek indemnity demanded by Turkey…

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Wickham. "The Egyptian War."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 5

A splendid exhibition of limelight views, illustrating the various events connected with the Egyptian War, was given by Messrs. G. H. Hall and T. Simon in the Wickham…

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CABLEGRAMS The Greco-Turkish War Conditions of Peace. Turkish Occupation of Thessaly. Britain Objects

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 May 1897 · page 5

LONDON Thursday.—It is cabled from Athens that Great Britain threatens to withdraw from the. European concert if Turkey occupies any part of…

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The Most Costly War Horse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 May 1897 · page 6

BUCEPHALUS was the most costly war horse ever bought. The animal came out of a noted stud owned by a Thessalian chief; and even before its celebrated taming by…

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The Greco-Turkish War. Greek Wounded Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The fund inaugurated by the London Daily Chronicle in aid of the Greek sick and wounded has been closed. The sum…

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The Greco-Turkish War. Greece and the Indemnity

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.—The Greek Government hopes that the Great Powers will guarantee the loan so that the indemnity to Turkey may be paid…

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CABLEGRAMS. The Greco-Turkish War. Extension of Armistice

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—The Porte has agreed to prolong the armistice for two weeks…

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The Greco-Turkish War. the Armistice. Extended During the Peace Parleys

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 June 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—At the request of the Embassies the Porte has agreed to extend the armistice indefinitely during the parleyings for peace…

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CABLEGRAMS. The Greco-Turkish War. the Negotiations for Peace

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The foreign Ambassadors at Constantinople and Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, will meet to…

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Soudanese Soldiers As Fighters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 12

MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS says that to the black Soudanese fighting is sport and second nature, and their chief fault is an exceeding rashness that sometimes carries them far, and…

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District News. Hamilton. a Welcome Home

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 June 1897 · page 8

THE Rev. Chas. Bell, who had been away recruiting his health in the northern colony after a long and painful illness, returned yesterday to resume his pastoral duties at the…

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In Case of War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 June 1897 · page 8

THE troops in the various garrison towns in England are being exercised in being enterrined and detrained, exactly as they would be required to do if on active service,…

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The Greco-Turkish War. Distressed Refugees

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 June 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.—The fugitives in Thessaly and Epirus are suffering terrible distress. Many are without clothing, and are subsisting on grass…

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Fight in the Soudan. a Dervish Force Defeated. English Officer Seriously Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—A Egyptian patrol has defeated a dervish force at Samanat. Fifteen dervishes were killed, and eight Egyptians. During…

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The Rising in Brazil. a Sanguinary Fight. Three Hundred Soldiers Killed. the Enemy's Forces Annihilated

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 June 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—Further details of the fighting in Brazil state 300 Brazilian troops were killed, whilst the followers of Antonio…

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The Disturbed Afghan Frontier. Attack on a British Force. Twenty-nine Persons Killed. Many Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Friday, 10.45 a.m.—Telegrams from the Afghan frontier state that an overwhelming force of Mulick natives have made a treacherous attack…

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The Greco-Turkish War. Proposed Rectification of Frontier. Greece Complains of the Delay

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—The projected rectification of the Greco-Turkish frontier gives Turkey the mountain crests, but does, not include any…

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What War Is Costing Spain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 3

To understand what a heavy price Spain is paying for her determination to put down the rebellions in her colonies, the traveller who knows how to use his eyes has only to…

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War Resources of America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 June 1897 · page 5

To those who too lightly contrast in our favour the military resources of Great Britain and the United States, the record of Grant's career, remarks a London contemporary,…

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Merewether. Welcome Home

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 6

A welcome home was extended to Mr. W. E. Hobson a night or so ago at the local School of Arts. Mr. Hobson having returned home for the holidays from Wee…

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