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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
451 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 23
The treatment accorded to prisoners of war during the early years of the present century, by the two nations that were long the chief belligerents, was altogether…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →LONDON, Monday.—The "St. James Gazette" states that the Boers are making headlong warlike preparations, ammunition being distributed in both the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An instance of the remarkable power and influence which the late Colonel Warburton had over the Khyber tribesmen was shown at Camp Bagh during Sir William Lockhart's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The after-effects of forced or particularly trying marches have proved a great source of mortality and sickness. The terrible aftermath due to frost and snow also…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"War's "'Aftermath" is the title of a paper contributed to the "Forum" by Mr. W. K. Rose, Reuter's correspondent in the Soudan campaign. After discussing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Royal Enginners (says the "Daily Telegraph") have been testing the value of wireless telegraphy, not only as a means of maintaining communications between the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The army is introducing wireless telegraphy to acquaint its directors with the movements of the enemy. In these days of quick scientific development it takes a deal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The Transvaal Government has recently paid £62,000 for war material procured via Hamburg…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Poult[?]ey Bigelow has delivered a quaint and interesting lecture at the Royal United Service Institution, London, on "The Yankee Soldier." For the American regular soldier…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—While marching from Limerick to Thumles yesterday, nine of the men of the 2nd Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment were injured by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The Volksraud has empowered President Kruger to proclaim martial law, with the consent of the Executive Council, in the event of war or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Poultney Bigelow has delivered a quaint and interesting lecture at the Royal United Service Institution, London, on "The Yankee Soldier." For the American regular soldier,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Men are being enlisted at Buluwayo, Rhodesia, and a large camp is being formed outside the town, nominally to provide against a native…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—Reuter's Paris correspondent telegraphs that M. Labori, one of Derfus counsel, has been shot in the middle of the back, at Rennes. The wound…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 8 o'clock this evening is Sydney a [?] named Gib[?]lett, aged 35, an accountant, she. Henry Williams, a mechanic, aged 26, dead, at Ultimo, and also wounded two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The "Standard" and "Morning Post" publish telegrams from their correspondents in the Transvaal, reporting that it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miss Muriel Balley, a New York journalist, is the only lady war correspondent in the world. She has been through the campaign in the Philippines, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"The army is a very safe profession, indeed, for an industrious, sober fellow," said General Sir William Gataore recently to a "Chums" interviewer. "An unsteady…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →LONDON, Sunday.—The Portuguese authorities at Delagoa Bay having prevented the landing of 15,000 Mauser rifles brought by the steamer Reichstag, the Boer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—Later particulars concerning the riots in Paris yesterday show that the disturbance was a Socialist and Anarchist rising against the Clericals…
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