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Northern Rivers · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1895

10 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

The China-Japanese war. a Terrible Massacre

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 3

THE Times special correspondent at Kobe, writing under date 3rd December, gives some further thrilling descriptions of the atrocions inhumanities at Port…

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Big War Indemnities

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1895 · page 4

THE indemnity nearly £117,000,000, which is reported to be demanded by Japan from China is greater than any war indemnity [?]itherto insisted upon…

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Incident in the Crimean War

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1895 · page 4

AT Sebastopol, during the siege, a Captain Samoiloff, wishing some wine, ordered an officer to send a man after it. The man, a young soldier, took the money…

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Ideal War Correspondent

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1895 · page 3

MR. ARCHIBALD FORBES, in Cassell's new serial work, "Battles of the Nineteenth Century," describes the ideal war correspondent:—"That person should…

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War v. Arbitration

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 August 1895 · page 8

SIR,—The following letter is one in reply to some abusive strictures on my criticism of a Greenridge debate—War v. Arbitration. I would thank you to insert it in the…

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The French Losses by War

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 30 August 1895 · page 4

A HIGHLY interesting story of what 100 years of war have cost France in human life has just been made public by Dr. Langneau, member of the Academy of…

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Advanced War Implements

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 November 1895 · page 2

A SOLDIER can now aim at an object and fire 20 allots in less than one minute ; or, if he rapidly throws his gun to his shoulder and fires without aim, 40 shots may…

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Possibilities of War

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 November 1895 · page 2

MAJOR-GENERAL HUTTON, in the course of a recent interview, implies that the European complications, coupled with Russian activity in the far East, would…

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How About War?

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 22 November 1895 · page 2

THE following from "Fugitive Notes," in the S. M. Herald, is rather good:—One fairly good reason, or, at any rate, excuse for not laying in a large stock of…

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Soldiers' Bations

Northern Star · Saturday 14 December 1895 · page 5

GOVERNMENT supplies to the soldier twelve ounces of meat and one pound of bread daily, as well as a modicum of coal to cook it withal. Anything else he requires he must…

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