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The wars & local soldiers, 1911

175 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 9

Under False Colours. a German Enlists. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1911 · page 5

Paul Hartwig, a German, has been sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment for making a false attestation on enlisting into the King's Own (the…

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War of the Future

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 7

The precision of modern weapons, and the great expense of war, lead to the one conclusion that the warfare of the future will be short, sharp, and decisive,…

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Labour Troubles. Railway Disputes. Conciliation or War. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 5

Railway workers are giving evidence before, the Royal Commission on railway disputes. One witness yesterday declared that…

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France's Navy. Prepared for War. a Brilliant Spectacle. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 5

A grand naval review was held off Toulon, on the south coast of France, yesterday. A sensation occurred during the…

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Moroccan Trouble. War Clouds Clear. Attack on Britain. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 5

The "North German Gazette" states that the Franco-German negotiations may now be expected to proceed more smoothly…

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Underwriting War Risks. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 5

The underwriters at Lloyd's have accepted 12 per cent. for big insurances to pay for loss in the event of an outbreak of war between two or three…

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A Soldier-peer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 16

Lord Downe, whose marriage has just taken place succeeded to a viscounty and an estate of 10,000 acres in Yorkshire when he was still in his teens, and has…

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Inside the War Office

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 3

The management of secret papers within the War Office has always been something it problem. The system of sending them about in locked boxes,…

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War Insurances. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 September 1911 · page 5

After dropping to £5 5s per cent, the rate of insurance against a France-German war for two months has risen to £12 12s, mainly to cover…

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War More Terrible

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1911 · page 6

Taking a holiday for the first time in fifteen years Thomas Alva Edison, the famous American inventor, has travelled to England to enjoy it. For all his 65…

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Airmen As War Scouts. Wireless Service in Flight

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1911 · page 10

To-day (says the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," writing on July 30) brings the announcement of the success of two important experiments,…

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The Socialists' View. Not Strike in Event of War. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1911 · page 5

At the sitting of the Socialist Congress yesterday, Horr F. A. Bebel, the Socialist leader in the Reichstag, advocated equality of trade In Morocco,…

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Money and War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1911 · page 4

During the progress of the negotiations between France and Germany on the Moroccan question it has been abundantly evident that…

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Socialism in Norway. Punishment of Soldiers. Christiania

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 September 1911 · page 5

A hundred and fifty-five soldiers hare boon sentenced to imprisonment for twenty days, and four others to imprisonment for twenty-four days,…

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Recent Science, Mathematics and the Soldier

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 September 1911 · page 9

The whole aim of science is in the direction of the economy of thought. By hard thinking it tends to save thinking. The paradox is quaintly expressed by an…

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Policeman or Soldiers?

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 7

Some of the ultra-critics of British methods who became panic-stricken over the Sidney-street affair, and advocated the general arming of the police may…

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Women in War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1911 · page 7

The useful work which women can do in war has gradually become recognised throughout Great Britain. To-day 20,000 women stand ready for mobilisation. Their…

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The Late Strike. a Soldier Court-martialled. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1911 · page 5

The trial by court-martial concluded yesterday of Private Harold Spiers, of the 1st Buttallon Royal Worcestershire Regiment, who on…

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War and Peace. Their Influence on Nations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 6

War has been the history of man in the past, and must be so also in the future. The introduction of civilisation is not going to change entirely the conditions…

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Turkey's Riposte. Economic War in Europe. Vienna

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1911 · page 5

The "None Frele Presse" learns from an authoritative diplomatic source that Turkey will answer the altimatum by a doclaration that…

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