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The wars & local soldiers, 1893

9 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

Dickens war Exact

Northern Star · Saturday 28 January 1893 · page 4

George A Sala writes of Dickens as follows;"He was exact even to the painful stage of exactitude in every transaction of life and be expected his guests to be as…

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The War Scare Again

Northern Star · Saturday 4 February 1893 · page 4

IN Europe the periodical alarm oocasioned by this cry, seems to increase in intensity each succeeding year, and a general consensus of opinion prevails that the mighty strain caused by the…

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The Coming War

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 10 March 1893 · page 3

WE.venture to give expression to the belief that Europe, despite France's alliance with a power which can only be regarded as the enemy of civilisation, is…

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The 'War Cry' in Heaven

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1893 · page 4

The organ of Salvation according to " General " Booth known as War Cry published lately tho' first instalment of " A Letter from Heaven." This…

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Our Soldiers in England

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 June 1893 · page 4

A COPY of the Middlesex Chronicle of May 6th has reached us, from which we take the following :— The interesting event of the past few days in Garrison…

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Our Soldiers at Home

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 8

THE MIDDLESEX CHRONICLE of May 20th says:—We broke off in our last notice of the doings of our Australian visitors of the New South Wales Cavalry by telling…

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For Little Olks. Jimmy a Prisoner of War

Northern Star · Saturday 30 September 1893 · page 6

In 1889 the dervishes from Khartoum made a desperate effort to drive the Egyptians from their advanced post at Wady Haifa. Under the leadership of…

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Peace Deadlier than War

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 10 November 1893 · page 4

AN American naval journal draws attention to the striking and mournful fact that the loss of life by the sinking of the Victoria in piping times of peace and on…

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War

Northern Star · Saturday 9 December 1893 · page 4

Brutal alike in deed and word, With callous beart and hand of strife. How like a fiend may man be made. Plying the foul and monstrous trade…

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