Fatal Boxing Contest. "Soldier" Rogers Dies. Melbourne
Solider Rogers and Alfred Copperwatte engaged in a twenty-round boxing contest at her Majesty's Ballarat, on Saturday. In the nineteenth round…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1910
102 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 6
The War Fever. to Destroy Dreadnoughts. Heavily-armed Monitors. London
The German Socialist newspaper "Vorwaerts" states that the British and Germans are working feverishly on models of monitors intended for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Office Supplies. Tenders for Meat. London
The War Office is inviting tenders, by December 7th, for 875,000 tenders ounce tins and 62,500 twenty-four ounce tins of preserved meat, to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplanes in War. Great Value Proved. London
The Paris correspondent of the "Westminster Gazette" notes as a marked result of the success of the aeroplane at the army manoeuvres in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Looney Trafford" or the Indomitable George. (Published by Special Arrangement with Messrs. Ward, Lock, and Company, Limited.) Chapter Xxii. the War on the Wineshop
Outside the confectioner's Mathilde let down her veil again, and turned her steps towards the Neptunburg. Trafford, at her request, took the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aeroplanes in War
Captain L. Sazerac de Forge, of the French army who is one or the enthusiasts for aviation, has given his views on what he calls the humane services to the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Germany's War Factory. the Romance of Krupp's
In these days, when half the world is watching Germany and wondering what she will do next in the way of military expansion or aggression, the Krupp…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →French Railway Strike. Soldiers Act As Drivers. London
Five hundred railway men in northern France have struck. The passenger traffic is not affected. A later message states that the strike…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Horrors of War
A terrible picture of the horrors of war is given in the "Nineteenth Century" by Mr. Bernard C. Molloy, formerly a captain in the French army. It describes…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Hand Grenades in War
The hand-grenade, the use of which was revived in the Russo-Japanese war, has been greatly improved by F. Marten-Hale, an Englishman, in a shell that can he…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Franco German War
The real Franco-German war opened with the formal Declaration dated the 19th of July, 1870, Thereupon the two armies advanced to the frontier. The plan of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The War Against Hail
Notwithstanding scientific demonstrations, of its inutility, the practice of bombarding thunder-clouds with "hall cannon" continues in many of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Doctors' Side of War. Some Odd Sights
Three days' manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain in the weak were occupied in rehearsing the doctors and members of the Royal Army Medical Corps in their branch…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The British Poor. Poignancy of Distress. Wastefulness of War. London
Mr. Lloyd-George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at a meeting of the Christian Labour League, at the City Temple, said the causes of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in the Air
Count Zeppelin announced home time age that he could easily build an airship with a displacement of 30,000 cubic metros. It has also boon announced that the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The War Lord of Europe
A writer in "M.A.P." gives an amusing sketch of the Kaiser, who, he says, lucks a sense of humour. William is a born hustler. He gets up…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →In War. Is All Fair?
Whatever race may have been the inventor of the old saying. All is fair in love and war," our Anglo-Saxon forefathers were very far indeed from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Boer War
One the Zulus being broken the Boers said, "Restore us our independence," and Great Britain refused. Thus occurred a number of engagements, the most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Engines of War. Dreadnought Destroyers
The "Vorwarta" (Berlin), which has many strange subterranean sources of information, declared recently that both in Germany and in England "feverish…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Spirit of War. Pressure on Countries. London
Admiral Mahan in a letter to "The Times," says that the right of maritime capture is the principal, if not the only strong weapon of offence…
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