A War Against Beards
Seventy years ago a social tyranny prevailed which regarded the beard as an outrage. I remember when only four men in Birmingham had courage to wear beards…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1903
101 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 6
The Killed and Wounded in Industry
It is strange that, not withstanding all the legislation and inspection, industrial accidents do not as a rule decrease in numbers. Some years may be better than…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →South African War. Memorial to Fallen Soldiers. Sydney
Quite an animated scone was witnessed in the vicinity of St. James' Church, King-street, this afternoon, when the ceremony of unveiling a memorial window was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reorganising the War Office
LONDON, Sunday.—The leading newspapers warmly approve of the action of the Government, in appointing Viscount Esher, Admiral Sir John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer War
LONDON, Friday.—The writers of the treatises on the South African War, published by the German General Staff, consider that the bad leadership…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Afghan Murdered. Two Others Wounded. Perth
IN consequence of information of a sensational character, two constables were sent to Kensington from Kalgorlie, and returned last night with the body of an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Fine Memorial of the S.a. War
The memorial to be erected by the citizens of Parramatta, and which is more appropriately a memorial of the South African War than of the soldiers of that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The British Soldier in Prison
Some interesting particulars of the soldier's life in prison are given in the current "Royal." There are, it seems fifteen military prisons, the largest being…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →To Write an Official History of the War
There is to be an official history of the South African War. There generally is such of history of every war, but special pains will be gone to this time in order…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →America and War
LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Elihu toot, the United States Minister for War, states that in making the statement that "the time was coming when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cruelty to Soldiers. Punishment of Officers
LONDON, Thursday.—Lieutenant Schilling, a German officer, has been sentenced to imprisonment for 18 months on a great number of charges…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. Auckland Claims the Largest Coal Seam in Australasia.—local Opinions on the War Cloud in the Far East.—a Pen Picture of Mr. Chamberlain.—reduction of Members Must Be Approved in England.—is Juvenile Intellectuality in Australia Weakening ?—A Boom in Cheap Food. Sydney
The statement that a seam of coal has been discovered at Abermain, which is 31ft thick has greatly interested folks in Newcastle. The secretary of the Union…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Insurances
LONDON, Tuesday.—"The Times" reports that there is some demand for speculative insurances against the risk of a declaration of war within a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Cloud. Ominous Reports
LONDON, Tuesday.—Baron Jutaro Komuru, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, has handed to M. Derosen, the Russian Ambassador at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japanese Favour War
BRISBANE, Thursday.—The steamer Changsha, from Hongkong and Japan, arrived in Moreton Bay to-day. Captain Moore reports that when the vessel was at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Shadow. Issue Still Doubtful
LONDON, Thursday.—The correspondent of "The Times" in Tokio, reports that the best informed circles in Japan do not share the extreme…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. the Old Wrangle—"who Won the Battle of Waterloo?"—what the Duke of Wellington Said.—a Man Speaks-who Knows the Locality of the Impending War.—that Threatened Coalition a Warning to the Labour Party.—the Injustice of 3½ Percent.—the Case of Stelling, and Its International Complexion. Sydney
The old wrangle. "Who won the Battle of Waterloo?" has been started afresh. It comes about through an utterance, which sees to have been ill-advised, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Shadow. Ominous British Action. the Squadrons Preparing
LONDON, Friday.—Although no definite intelligence is obtainable as to the result of the pourparlers between Russia and Japan, the feeling is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Far East. Japan Wants War
LONDON, Sunday.—The Kobe correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" reports that the reply of Japan to Russia's answer to Japan's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Far East War Preparations
LONDON, Tuesday.—M. Lessar, the Russian Ambassador, has informed the delegate of the Wai-wu-pu that the cold prevented the evacuation of…
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