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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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London News. the Victorian Exhibition.—the University Boat Race.—britain and Russia.—commonwealth Immigration.—imperial Text Books—wool and Cloth Prices.—soldiers in Six Months.—japanese Ambassador to Great Britain.—big Ships and Naval Supremacy.—percy Grainger and Wanda Radford. London, September 14

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 7

The Victorian Government is to be congratulated on its achievement at the Agricultural Hall, Islington. It is safe to say that the exhibit, which occupies the whole…

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Soldiers in Six Months

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 7

Monday was the dismissal parade of the "Spectator" Experimental Company, which Colonel A. W. A. Pollock and his assistants have converted in six months…

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French War Office

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 October 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—General Picquart, the newly-appointed Minister for War in France, has ordered fifty officers holding sinecures in the War…

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Work for Idle Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 11

In a recent number of "Broad Views," Mr. J. W. Petavel, late captain in the Royal Engineers, broaches a proposal that would, if we were wise, lead the way…

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A Soldier's Suicide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 November 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—A sergeant-major of the German army, stationed at Bremen barracks, after being disciplinarily punished, ordered his…

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Riotous Negro Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—President Roosevelt has dismissed an entire negro battalion for not divulging the [?]ames of their comrades who were…

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Capture in War Time

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 November 1906 · page 4

With regard to Lord Ellenborough's question in the House of Lords as to captures at sea during war time, and to his suggestion that courses should be established for…

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The Word "Soldier." How It Originated

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 13

The Marshal of the field in the Middle Ages marshalled a nation's military forces, or soldiers (mostly mercenaries who received their name…

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War Office Contracts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 November 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Mr. R. B. Haldane, the Secretary of State for War, has announced that restrictions of a preferential or a protective character…

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Book War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 November 1906 · page 2

The book war continues to rage, and Although the interest in the great struggle which taking place between the ''Times"—or rather the "Times" Book Club—and…

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London News, Australian State Debts.—book War.—the Decimal System.—german Smelting Works and Zinc Trust.—woman Suffrage.—investment in Australia.—hohenlohe Revelations.—training British Sailors.—battleships in Disguise.—the Week's Sport.— Dr. Clifford. London, October 19th. Australian State Debts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 November 1906 · page 2

The borrowing propensities of the Australian colonies are frequently the subject of adverse remarks, but as "An Australian" points out in a daily financial…

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The Shipping War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1906 · page 11

For some months past there has been a war of rates in the New Zealand-London trade between the Federal-Houlder-Shire linen on the one hand and the New…

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Our New Zealand Letter. Wellington, Nov. 24. Returned Railway Men

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1906 · page 11

A constant stream of visitors wets in every year from New Zealand to the old world, and about this season of the year newspaper man are kept busy…

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The Soap War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1906 · page 2

The soap war, to which I have referred in my last two letters, continues to rage. Unquestionably, it has been the subject which has chiefly been occupying the…

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The War Office

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1906 · page 2

This month will be an important landmark in the history of the War Office. During the next few weeks all the officials, from the Minister of War downwards,…

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The Book War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1906 · page 2

Interest in the Book War has considerable subsided, although the battle continues to rage. Both the publishers and "The Times" express themselves…

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London News. Municipal Elections.—the Book War.—the Trades Disputes Bill.—the Soap War.—the War Office.—the Lords and the Education Bill.—the Motor Omnibuses.—the Noise Problem.—the Springboks. London, 2nd November, 1906. Municipal Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1906 · page 2

As I write these lines London is in the threes of a municipal election. As a rule, municipal politics fall rather flat in the metropolis, and small wonder, for the…

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Soldiers for Canada

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—One hundred and fifty men of the Manchester Regiment, who have been disbanded, have accepted an offer by the Canadian…

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A War Invention

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 December 1906 · page 13

No one outside the "Argus" Office has yet been able to discover anything about that war invention, which the paper recently referred to in such a mysterious…

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The Late War. Sentences on Officers. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 December 1906 · page 5

Admiral Niebogatoff, who was second in command to Vice-admiral Rodjestvenski, in control of the Baltic fleet which was annihilated by the…

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