The Night After San Juan. with the Killed and Wounded
In the "Contemporary Magazine" Mr. Stephen Bonsal writes an account of the scene among the fallen which now and then rivals in interest Tolstoi's pathetic and…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1899
451 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 23
War Office Stolidity. Rebuke by the "Times."
LONDON, Tuesday.—The "Times" denounces the stolidity of the War office for refusing to send a hospital ship to the Soudan, despite the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Where the Bullets Strike: the Soldiers
In these days of war and rumours of war some facts about bullets and their billets will not be without interest. A remarkable thing in connection with warfare, says…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Americo-Spanish War. Spanish Generals Demand an Inquiry
LONDON, Sunday.—Marshal Campos, formerly Captain-General of Cuba, and the other Spanish Generals in command during the recent war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killing the Treacherous Wounded
A soldier who fought at Omdurman writes home with reference to the killing of wounded Dervishes:—The order was to bayonet everyone, dead or alive, as we…
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A striking story is going the rounds concerning, an officer who, being refused leave, to go with the Chitral expedition, obtained five days' leave to go…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Against War. Refused by Russia
LONDON, Friday.—"War against War," the new paper owned by Mr. W. T. Stead, advocating universal peace, has been prohibited from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →America's War Losses
LONDON; Sunday.—It is officially reported that the losses among the United States forces during the recent war with Spain amounted to 5731. Of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Secrets Revealed
Mr. Woodford, the former American Minister at Madrid, made some interesting disclosures of war secrets in an informal speech at the New York Army and Navy…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Soldier's Camera
Lieutenant Wise did something on the field that was characteristic (says a war correspondent in the Spanish-American War). His was unlike the action of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Creating a Horror of War
Far more likely to accomplish peace, by creating a detestation of war, are men like the famous Russian painter, M. Verestchagin. This great man in a follower, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →International News. The Fighting Near Manila. British Aid to American Wounded
LONDON, Monday.—The Filipinos in successive entrenchments continue to stoutly resist the American advance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War in Samoa. Taviuni's Island Trip. Experiences in the Bombardment
The Union Steamship Company's Taviuni, which arrived at Newcastle late yesterday afternoon, berthed at No. 14 crane for bunkers, and left for Sydney last night, brought…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. the Hawker and the Hairdresser.—mourdant Sues the Murderer Lisson.—the Constitutional Crisis: the War Between the Houses.—a Question of Swamping the Council.—partisan Pressmanship.—in Memory of Captain Cook.—a Sydney Paper and Indecent Advertisements.—the Easter Holidays.—petitioning for Mercy for Briggs.—quarrelsome Aldermen at Paddington. Sydney
The other day a waiter who had been cruelly assaulted by his employee and given a "wry neck"—otherwise deformed—obtained a verdict carrying a full thousand pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mosquito Island. Welcome Home
A pleasant night was spent at the residence of Mr. Joseph Dempsey son Thursday last in honour of their oldest daughter's return, after a long sojourn in the metropolis. Singing,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Soldier's Last Letter
Just before the night march of Majuba Hill, Sir George Colley (we read in the "Life of Sir George Pomeroy-Colley") wrote a letter to his wife which shows how…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Income-tax Only a War-tax
Following the announcement that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is likely to be faced with a deficit of £2,500,000, the London "Financial…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Americo-Spanish War Treaty
LONDON, Wednesday.—ratifications of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain have been exchanged at Washington. An…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers and Sermons
An interview with the Rev. Arthur, Robins, so well known as "The Soldiers Bishop," occupies a prominent position in the March number of the "Windsor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Soldier's Suicide. Sydney
The City Coroner held a magisterial inquiry to-day in connection with the death of Alfred Ernest Daunt, late sergeant in the Australian Horse, who shot himself in the…
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