The War. Terrible Slaughter
LONDON, Saturday.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" reports that official despatches received by the Russian…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1904
484 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 25
The Japanese Engineer in War
The engineers of Japan have been the chief means of developing the resources of the country, and raising it from a state of feudalism to one of industrial and…
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LONDON, Sunday.—Owing to the difficulty of disembarking troops at Swakopmund, German South-West Africa, to quell the rebellion among…
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LONDON, Monday.—Telegrams from Tokio on Saturday state that the Russians are concentrating against General Kuroki, and the Russian cavalry…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The Russian artillery has destroyed the railway station at Sha-ho. Colonel Pankoff and twenty-two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. a Japanese Traitor. Admiral Beaten to Death
LONDON, Wednesday.—It is reported from Tokio that a Japanese Admiral was found guilty of receiving a bribe from the enemy of £10,000 for…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Correspondents describe the line of the Russian wounded who are crawling along the roads leading to Moukden, as endless…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The Greek Archbishop of Manchuria has created a tremendous sensation in Russia by publishing an open letter, in which he declares…
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LONDON, Thursday.—A millionaire manufacturer at Moscow, named Morozoff, has informed the Grand Duke Sergius, Military Governor of Moscow, that…
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Two million pounds sterling a year is the sum which Mr. Edgar Mels calculates the Russo-Japanese war is costing the newspapers of the world, and that is a moderate…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Mr. Dooley on the War
"How is th' war comin' on?" asked Mr. Hennessy. "Nicely, thank ye f'r askin'," said Mr. Dooley "Th' Rooshyans is sweepin'…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Use of Airships in War
While the spectacle of two nations engaged in sanguinary contest and sacrificing thousands of lives does not lend very strong confirmation to the truth of the…
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LONDON, Friday.—The Czar expresses his confidence that General Kuropatkin twill crush the enemy's obstinacy…
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LONDON, Saturday.—It is reported from Tokio that the old town of Port Arthur is in flames. A desperate general attack was…
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LONDON, Monday.—Field-Marshal Oyama reports that a detachment of General Kuroki's army on Thursday defeated eight companies of Russian…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Japanese address state that the greatest battle of the war is now impending. The Russian and Japanese trenches…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Official despatches from Tokio report desperate lighting at Port Arthur. They describe the work of tunnel…
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LONDON, Friday.—Lord Lansdowne, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in a letter to the London Associated Chamber of Commerce, states…
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Mr. Charles E. Hands, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" with the Russian headquarters, writes from Mukden, on the 12th of September:—…
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A unique auction sale is being held in Melbourne. It consisted of a large stock of Japanese articles of what good old Mrs. Malaprop would have termed "articles of…
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