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The wars & local soldiers, 1904

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The War

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1904 · page 4

Now that military suspense has been thawed by the Japs opening fire on the Great Bear, every newspaper critic is supposed to write all he knows (and a darned lot he doesn't…

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Cardinal Moran on the War

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1904 · page 2

REFERRING to the Russian-Japanese War, in responding to the toast of his health at the annual breakfast of the Irish National Foresters on Sunday…

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War in the Far East London

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1904 · page 8

A CABLE from Singapore states that the shipping traffic is greatly congested there owing to the heavy arrivals of Japanese and Indian coal vessels. About 300,000 tons of…

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War in the Far East London

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1904 · page 5

THE Japanese are ranking a feint towards the Yalu River, but the real object of the movement is to cut the railway line to Port Arthur. Japan is embarking 100,000 men within the…

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The War. The Chemulpho Fight. Terrible Fire of Japanese Ships. The Varyag "A Living Hell." A Brush on land. 150 Japanese Taken Prisoners. 70 Russians Killed. 100,000 Japanese Troops Shipped. Port Arthur Evidently the Objective Point. Confusion on Siberian Line. Fears as to Russian Army Food Supply. Port Arthur Again. Another Dash at the Russians. Effective Work by Japanese Torpedo Boats. London

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1904 · page 5

Advices which have been received at New York state that the Russian cruiser Varyag and the gun vessel Coreetz quitted Chemulpho harbour…

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Cable News. the War. London

The Byron Bay Record · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 7

A widespread revolutionary proclamation has been issued in Russia. declaring that the present war is calculated to retard the economic…

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The Russian-Japanese War. London

Northern Star · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 5

Admiral Alexeieff has ordered all non-com butants to leave Port Arthur. Japan has,on the other hand, directed that all Russians should be treated with the utmost…

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Position in the Balkans. War Inevitable. London

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1904 · page 3

DIPLOMATISTS consider that a war between Turkey and Bulgaria is inevitable. Turkey, it is pointed out, is showing no signs of seriously applying…

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The War. Russia Unprepared. Implied Postponement of Military Operations. Further Japanese Success. Cargo of Munitions Captured. Japanese Loan Subscribed. Rigid Censorship in Japan. No Permits Yet for War Correspondents for the Front. No Late News. London

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1904 · page 2

General Pflug, Chief of the Staff to Admiral Alexciff, confirms the report that bands of Churchuses are being organised in Manchuria, under…

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The Russian-Japanese War. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 24 February 1904 · page 5

Vice-Admiral Rojestuensky, Chief of the Navy Staff, declares that he is unable to send all the officers wanted to Port Arthur, as they will possibly be needed ia the…

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Treasured War Funds

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1904 · page 6

A CERTAIN coffer concealed in St. Petersburg is supposed to contain £100,000,000 ready for war. France is credited with the possession of…

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The War. London

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1904 · page 5

THE St. Petersburg correspondent of the New York " Herald " reports that an outpost engagement has taken place on the Yalu River, between the…

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War in the Far East London

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1904 · page 8

THE Japanese fleet made another attack on Port Arthur during a blinding snow storm, and amidst a terrific rain of shells from the enemy's forts and ships. Two Russian…

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War in the Far East London

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1904 · page 5

IT is reported that 40,000 more Japs have been landed at Chemulpho. Seventy miles of railway and some important bridges have been destroyed…

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The Russian-Japanese War. London

Northern Star · Saturday 27 February 1904 · page 5

The `Sviet' of St Petersburg, declares that no matter how long the war lasts, it cannot cease till Japan has been expelled from the mainland, and Russia's supremacy has been…

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The War. Port Arthur Again. Russians Report a Japanese Reverse. The Japanese Version. London

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1904 · page 3

ACCOUNTING to Russian accounts auother attack upon Port Arthur, on this occasion unsuccessful, has been made by the Japanese…

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The Russian-Japanese War. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 5

Forged Russion rouble notes to the amount of £10,000,000, are circulating in Manchuria. The wounded Russians who were rescued…

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The Russian and the Japanes[?] Soldier. an American's Panegyric

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 8

" Perhaps the finest specimens of physical manhood personally observed at any place in any country were, on the average," asserts Mr. Albert J. Beveridge in his work "The…

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Open Column. To the Editor of the Northern Star. the Sydney Papers and the Results to Us in Australia of the Russo-japanese War

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 6

Sir.—While reading the articles and criticisms appearing in the Sydney daily papers (and several weekly ones) in connection with the present Russo-Japanese…

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The War. London

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 5

Russians attacked Korean soldiers in the neighbourhood of Ham-heung, on the north-east coast of Korea. The Koreans were dispersed. (Ham-heung…

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