Traction En[?] for War Purposes. London, Thursday Afternoon
Successful War O[?] trials have been held at Aldershot with a traction engine of the caterpillar t[?]pe. It drew an eight tons Long Tom gun eight miles an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Northern Rivers · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1910
152 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 8
Why European War Is Impossible
Not the least important of the works of science is its effect in the promotion of general peace. As the nations are more closely linked together by the means of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Over-drilled Soldiers. Two Die From Exhaustion. London, Thursday Afternoon
The Seventh Baden Infantry Regiment at Muelheim was so severely exercised on the drill ground that 50 collapsed from exhaustion. Two of this number died, and eight…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Secretary of State for War on Lord Kitchener. London, Monday Evening
Mr. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, speaking in the House of Commons, said he greatly regreated that Lord Kitchener did not desire to assume the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Notable Days in Peace and War
On 1st January, 1859, all Europe was aroused by the ominous words with which Napoleon III. addressed the Austrian Ambassador. "I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welcome Home to Mr. Roosevelt. London
Ex-President Roosevelt and family arrived at New York yesterday. The welcome accorded them exceeded anything seen in America, since the war with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Help for Soldiers and Sailors. London, Sunday Afternoon
The anny pageant, on behalf of the Soldiers' anti Sailors' Help Society, is opening at Fulham to-morrow. The society, since its foundation, has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War in Mexico. London
The Mexican Government appealed to the United Stales to protect its frontier and have the women residents at Naco sent over the border…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Wounded Negro. His Peculiar Actions. Sydney
A powerfully-built negro appeared on the railway station at Eastwood with his throat gashed and bleeding profusely. After procuring a couple of bricks, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Governor Wounded. London, Sunday Afternoon
The Governor of Kharbin has been wounder. His assailant escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Found Wounded. Brisbane
A man named C. H. Drummond, described an a retired Colonel in the Imperial Army was found in his bedroom at the Imperial Hotel, Brisbane, with a revolver wound in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →To End War
Apropos of the rumor that some scientific man has discovered rays that will kill at four miles, a correspondent of the Liverpool "Post," inquires whether anything…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cases of Beriberi on Man-of-war. "London, Sunday Afternoon
H.M.S. cruiser Proserpine has arrived, at Plymouth. The paymaster, two stokers, and a seaman are in a critical condition, suffering from beriberi, coutracted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Aerial Torpedo. Remarkable Engine of War
AN Englishman has invented the torpedo of the air. Sitting at a transmitter in London, he can send a dirible balloon through the air at any height, and to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →If War Came. Australia's New Army
If a Japanese armada. swooped down on Australia, it would not, come in at the [?]ack door, as many have supposed. It would come straight to Sydney, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Engine of War. Terrible Power of an Aerial Destroyer
An Englishman has invented the torpedo of the air. Sitting at a transmitter in London, he can send a dirigible balloon Through the air at any height, and to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Dirigible Flight
One of the greatest flights in the history of dirigibles has been accomplished by an army balloon which flew from Aldershot to London and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pardons for Imprisoned Soldiers and Deserters
The Government has received from the Secretary of State for the Colonics copies of a special army order, containing the terms of remissions of sentences to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers Drowned in the Ni[?]e. London, Tuesday Evening
Seventeen of the Scottish Borderes Regiment were sailing on the Nile at Khartoum when a squall arose and capstzed the [?]at, and [?]hree were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Armoured War Ships Building by Britain and Germany. London
Mr.R. [?] informed Mr. J. T. [?] M.P., that excluding the armoured cruisers for the Dominations, [?] British and [?] German armoured ships are…
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