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The wars & local soldiers, 1910

14 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers

District Items. KELVIN. Welcome home,Mr Elitor. ADVANCING

Manilla Express · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 4

It is really wonderful the solid progress that Kelvin is making and you, Mr Editor, would be surprised if you were to come our way now. As…

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Balloons in War Difficult to Destroy

Manilla Express · Saturday 26 March 1910 · page 3

The first tests in the United States of firing at balloons have been carried out at Sandy Hook. A small 3-man captive balloon was anchored at a…

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War Scare. Germany's Financial Difficulties

Manilla Express · Wednesday 30 March 1910 · page 1

The task of the new German Chancellor is likely to prove a very difficult one. The question of finance in Berlin, as in London, governs the situation, and…

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Where Every Man Is at War with His Neighbour

Manilla Express · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 3

Our Sketch represents a house in the Central Arfak Mountain. Dutch New Guinea. The old traditions of Blood feuds are str[?] here and every…

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Short Story. a Soldier of Brittany

Manilla Express · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 3

It was in the country near the forest not far from the Seine, in the modest villa where I hoped to spend my old age, that I saw Jean de Thommeray for the first time. He…

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Anti-war Organisation

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Tuesday 9 August 1910 · page 2

Under the leadership of Mr. Maurice Hewlett, the novelist, a movement to form a workmen's anti-war organisation is growing in strength. British unions take favorably…

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War Balloons Missing

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Tuesday 9 August 1910 · page 2

Two war balloons have been missing from Munich since Friday, each containing three men. Both balloons are believed to have been lost…

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A Husband's Creed. Quaint Document from a Man Who war Not Domesticated

Manilla Express · Wednesday 14 September 1910 · page 3

There were some quaint clauses in an "ultimatum" seat by a Birmingham man to his wife, who applied to the local bench for a summons for threats against…

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Peace or War

Manilla Express · Wednesday 5 October 1910 · page 2

The "Times" correspondent at Athens says the situation is one of extreme gravity. The decision for peace or war…

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The War Against Hail

Manilla Express · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 3

Notwithstanding scientific demonstrations of its inutility, the practice of bombarding thunder-clouds with "hail cannon" continues in many of…

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War Between Germanic Nations

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Tuesday 8 November 1910 · page 2

Colonel Gaedke, a German military critic, says the war between the Germanic nations would be a crime against humanity, and must be prevented at all costs…

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Game and War-game

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 7

Soldiers do not poach much, nor do they, as a rule, commit wilful damage. Still, the mere fact of the movement of troops driving the game off the land of an owner who…

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Germany's Readiness for War

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 7

If the world to-morrow should be totally taken by surprise by the tidings that war had broken out between Germany and France or between Germany and England,…

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What War with Germany Would Cost

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 7

According to a writer in the Quarterly Review," the loss to France by the Franco-Prussian war is circulated at 544,000,000 sterling, while the victor's bid stood at the…

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