War Stores Waste. Two Firms Net £300,000 Profit
The fourth report of the Public Accounts Committee, which was issued in November, dealt in detail with the system under which South African war stores…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1907
71 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 4
Identification of Soldiers
LONDON, Monday.—The British War Office is issuing an aluminium disc, to be worn under their clothing by soldiers on active service, in lieu…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prevention of War. Attitude of Britain. London
Mr. W. T. Stead, editor of the "Re[?]ew of Reviews," etc., is touring [?]rope and interviewing leading [?]atesmen on behalf of the Hague…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Material
A cable message published yesterday again directs attention to the importance of the question of the supply of war material. It is asserted that,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Invention. Tracked by Spies
A remarkable degree of mystery surrounds the alleged invention by Mr. G. B. H. Austin, of Melbourne, of a contrivance for the accurate sighting of big guns, so…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A War of Freights
A striking example of German commercial, tenacity is the continued rate war which has been in progress between Antwerp and India during the last 18…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mountain Soldiers
We are apt to think of Switzerland only as a model little State, made up entirely of wild and colossal" snowclad mountains, and existing solely as a kind of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Old Days of New Zealand. the Waikato War
Adventures manifold in the wild old days of both New Zealand and Fiji form the recollections of Mr. E. T. Burness, whose exhibit (says the "Christchurch…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →An American Aerial Fleet. an Important Factor in War
The announcement that the United States Department of War has decided to take immediate steps for the building of at aerial fleet has given the problem of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Brilliant Soldier
Major-General William Rufus Shatter, at Bakersfield, in California, whose death took place early in November, was best known to Europeans as having…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A Holy War
Western peoples have little knowledge of the awful significance of the word "Jerad" to those of the Far East. Wherever there is a large Moslem population there…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The British War Secretary
Mr. R. B. Haldane, M.P., is, beyond question, one of the most capable men in the English Cabinet. As Secretary for War, he holds an immensely responsible…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Republics at War. in Central America. London
It is reported that a body of Honduras troops has invaded Nicaragua, and that relations between the two Central American republics have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death of Sir William Russell First War Correspondent. London
The death has taken place of Sir William Howard Russell, the famous war correspondent, and the founder of the "Army and Navy Gazette."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Hill Sensation. Two Persons Wounded. Sydney
A miner named George Humphrics, about 10 o'clock last night attempted, it is alleged, to shoot Frank Crockford, another miner, and Eliza Crockford, his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Central American War
LONDON, Friday.—The Governments of Honduras and Nicaragua, which have lately been at War, have agreed to settle the issues between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lessons of War. Retention of the Sword
"During recent years there has been a great deal of discussion in army and newspaper circles about abolishing the sword as a part of the equipment of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Islington. Welcome Home
At the Northeote Hall, Islington, a welcome home was tendered on Thursday evening to Mr. John B. Holloway, who has just returned to Newcastle after an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Central American War. London
After six hours' fighting, the Nicaraguans defeated the Honduras troops and captured San Bernando, Honduras…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sailor Not the Soldier
Lord Roberts' fear that the unpreparedness of Great Britain in the field may lead to England's invasion is necessarily much heightened by the fact that he is a field…
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