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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
499 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 25
LONDON, Tuesday.—The newspapers of the United States cordially recognise the "unfaltering friendship" shown to America by Great Britain at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Numbers of women belonging to the Salvation Army are offering their services to Spain and the United States as nurses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—There is a feeling general in America that the war will be a short one, and that there will be but little bloodshed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—A cable from Washington states that the first call for the militia will be for 80,000, the enlistment being for three years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—The opening of the Spanish Cortes was a brilliant and impressive ceremony. Queen Christina, the Queen Regent, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE war between the United States and Spain will undoubtedly inflict injury on the export of coal from this port to San Francisco and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir Charles Todd has asked the British postal authorities to telegraph to him immediately hostilities between America and Spain have begun, and if a message comes on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Twenty-eight thousand regulars and 15,000 volunteers garrison the fortifications of Havana at the entrance to the harbour,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—The American newspapers are offering rewards for the first Spanish flags captured in the campaign. One newspaper offers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is a well-known fact that previous to the present crieds the two countries now fighting, were repeatedly on the brink of war. It seems that during the presidency…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Spanish-American war is the main topic of conversation in the city, and news as to the actual beginning of the encounter is awaited with feverish interest. In some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday. —One thousand mules which were at New Orleans, intended for shipment to Cuba, have been seized by the United States as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There was much excitement here over the reception of the news of the war between the States and Spain. Throughout the day hundreds of persons thronged round the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.—Several cables connected with the submarine mines in New York harbour have been cut. This has been the work, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—The American cruiser New York has captured the Spanish steamer Pedro, 2872 tone, bound to Havana…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—President M'Kinley has desired Congress to formally declare war on Spain in order to do away with the irregularity of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—The United States Government has declared that they will recognise the flag of a neutral nation as protecting articles of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—The United States had declared that the blockade of Cuba must be effective, otherwise it will not be recognised…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The death of Major Kemp, the great Maori warrior, announced in last Saturday's cables, recalls many thrilling incidents of the Maori War in the sixties. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Monday.—The Spanish colonists of Manila, the capital of the Philippine Islands, on hearing of the approach of a hostile American…
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