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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
499 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 25
LONDON, Monday.—The Buena Ventura, a Spanish vessel 1151 tons, classed 100 A1 at Lloyd's has been captured by an American ship. She…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—The Spanish Government has officially announced that war has commenced, and has annulled all American treaties with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—The finance Committee of the American House of Representatives has proposed the imposition of special war taxes to yield…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney Underwriters' Association has adopted the following extra rates under the war premium agreement: On coal cargeesper British ship to the West Coast of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Reports from Key West state that the Americans have captured the Spanish Atlantic liner Havana with a valuable cargo of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.—At the desire of President M'kinley, Congress has formally declared war against Spain. President M'Kinley, in his message…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The war budget drawn up by the Spanish Government proposes to provide expenses of the campaign by a Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday Night.—Mr. Dingley, speaking in the House of Representatives, desired to impress on the country not to expect a short…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—The New York correspondent of the "Standard" states that hopeless confusion exists in the United States War Department,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The British Government has stopped the departure of the American torpedo boat Somers from the Devonport (Eng.) naval…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The opinion published yesterday that the appointment of Captain Mahan to the strategy board at Washington might be regarded as a guarantee…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The risk of the capture of American vessels by Spanish cruisers is thought to be so great by underwriters in Europe and America as to cause them to cable to their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nearly all the wounds in war are inflicted by the rifle. Shells don't seem to do a great deal of harm. Some curious examples of the harmlessness…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The cruisers, New York, Cincinati, and Puritan, were engaged to-day bombarding the forts at the entrance to Matanzas harbour. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The United States authorities have ordered several war balloons from Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.—The British authorities have seized, as contraband of war, 10 tons of cartridges from a vessel in the Thames which was about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The American monitor Terror sighted the Spanish steamer Guido, which had banked her fires. The Guido made an effort to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At this early stage of the war between the United States and Spain the possibility of international complications taking place has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday, 3 a.m.—The Governor of Manila telegraphs that the American squadron forced the entrance of the Bay of Manila at night,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday, 1.57 a.m.—A great battle has been fought between the American and Spanish squadrons off Manila…
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