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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
499 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 25
LONDON, Monday.—A body of French sailors landed at Shanghai, a treaty port in China, to enforce the sale of a joss house and cemetery,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The latest news regarding the surrender of Santiago states that the Spanish garrison on Sunday marched out to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While the world has been improving by leaps and bounds in methods of killing one another, surgery has not, fortunately, stood still. In modern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War nowadays is only for billionaire States. The cost of the present struggle between Spain and America, as the "Spectator" points out, may be prodigious. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This war shows that in naval warfare the defendants have the advantage, not the assailants. Even a small power can, if its agents are honest and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday.—Major General Shafter reports that the city is a perfect entanglement of defences, and it would have cost, 5000 lives to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With three exceptions, Montenegro is the smallest independent State in Europe. The Montenegrin army is wonderfully strong for so small a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Rear-Admiral Cervera, the commander of the Spanish fleet which was destroyed off Santiago, has arrived in the United…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A pressman, in his usual news gathering rounds, recently came across one Benjamin Kirwan, who took an active part in the Maori War, '64-'68. Kirwan carried his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Wednesday.—President M'Kinley, in conversation with a member of the Senate, said he did not expect that peace would be brought…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The gaiety of the Spanish nation is irrepressible, despite the prevailing distrust of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It doesn't always take a whole army to capture a fort or a man-of-war (remarks a London contemporary). The Earl of Peterborough took Barcelona, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Friday.—The United States Government has intimated that it intends to retain Puerto Rico…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—In connection with the decision of the United States Government to take immediate steps for the conquest of the island of Puerto…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The select committee appointed at the instance of Mr. W. St. John Brodrick, Under-Secretary for War, to inquire into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—It is reported from Washington that the German Ambassador has delivered a cordial message to President M'Kinley from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Five thousand Cuban residents at Cienfuegos have appealed to Rear-Admiral Samson to speedily capture the city, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—At the instance of Senor Sagasta, the Spanish Premier, Mr. Cambon, the French Ambassador at Washington, has requested…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The American press (says the American correspondent of the London "Times"), with very rare exceptions, hushes up the seamy side of this war, partly from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One of the most startling results that have as yet been attendant on the outbreak of hostilities is in the difference it has made to bookmakers…
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