Amazing War Office Story How We Got the Erhardt Guns
According to the ordnance experts on the question of our guniess Army the Erhardt gun is the most up-to-date field artillery gun in the country's…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1904
484 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 25
The Russians in Battle. Duties of the Soldiers
In the Journal of the United Service Institution is given the Russian scheme of instruction for battle translated by permission of the Chief of the Second Bureau…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War and Meteorology
Those who hare followed the accounts of the appalling engagements proceeding in the Far East cannot fall to have noticed that often times severe fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War. Hardships in Manchuria. London
Russian correspondents give appalling accounts of the hardships of the Russian soldiers in Manchuria. Their clothes are mere rags; they…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. End of Port Arthur Fleet. London
General Nogi, the Japanese commander of the operations against Port Arthur, reports that four Russian battleships, two cruisers, a gunboat,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. the Russian Fleet. London
The French newspapers allege that Admiral Rozhjlestvenski inspired the agitation begun by Captain Clado for the despatch of the third squadron,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Fear in Russia. London
Eight thousand Japanese troops have reinforced the besiegers of Port Arthur. The havoc created by dynamite…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War of the Kirks
The war of the kirks in Scotland still continues, though it is quite likely that the words "forcibly seized" convey a wrong impression. The House of Lords…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Port Arthur's Plight. London
The town of Port, Arthur is now almost deserted, owing to the incessant and devastating bombardment by the Japanese from their point of vantage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Preparations for Battle. London
Field Marshal Oyama, Commanderin-Chief of the Japanese armies, has concentrated 15,000 troops with 16 guns at Tsianchan and Sciyamatso,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Stoessel Still Resolute. London
General Stuessel, the Russian Commander at Port Arthur, has sent a cable message to the Czar, giving a stirring story of twelve days' assaults…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Further Japanese Success London
General Stoessel, the Commander of Fort Arthur, has again been wounded, but not seriously. The Russians have abandoned the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. a Grim Struggle. London
The Japanese Commander, General Samejima, who recently distinguished himself at Port-Arthur by the capture of the north fort of East Kaikwan, is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Japanese Fleet Starts. London
After the first Japanese assault upon Kee-Kwan shan, the Russians in the fort were reinforced by 300 men. Of these, only twenty escaped, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Russian Reinforcements. London
There are indications that a general attack is expected from the Japanese on the Russian lines of defences north of the Sha-ho…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Reminiscence of the Boer War
Princess' Christian has left behind her in South Africa the greatest goodwill and esteem among all classes. It was a matter of melancnoly gratification to Princess…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War. Another Japanese Success. London
A report from Port Arthur states that the Japanese forces have succeeded in occupying a hill cast of Hoyang-sbukao. A detachment of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Port Arthur Fighting
LONDON, Monday.—After the Japanese success east of Iloyangshukao the Russians concentrated their fire from Toyangkoff and Yakutsin. This…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. a Japanese Defeat
LONDON, Tuesday.—Correspondents arriving at Tokio declare that the Japanese achievements at Port Arthur stagger belief…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Japanese Success. London
Russian prisoners state that only six companies of the 3000 troops defending the north Kee-kwan-shan forts survived after the Japanese attacks…
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