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The wars & local soldiers, 1912

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A Picnic War. Italian Spies Captured. Arabs' Appeal to Encer Bey

Northern Star · Saturday 15 June 1912 · page 3

Turkish papers received by Mr. K. Mockbell, of Sydney, give some interesting details regarding the operations in TripoliA correpondent to one of the…

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China's Troubles. Mutiny of Soldiers. Looting, Shooting, and Burning. Peking

Northern Star · Monday 17 June 1912 · page 5

Two thousand old-style soldiers, fearing disbandment without pay, mutinied at Tsinan-lu and began looting, shooting, and burning. The Governor took refuge in the…

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To the Unknown. an Incident, in the Desert War

Northern Star · Wednesday 19 June 1912 · page 3

The unrest and dissatisfaction among the Moors, which has Just culminated in a general massacre of Europeans Fez (writes the special correspondent of the London…

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The Australian Soldier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1912 · page 2

Replying to the boast of his health at a military function at Coraki on Monday evening, Capt. McRae said that he did not look for any aggression, but when…

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Mukden Mutiny. Cutting Down the Soldiers' Pay. Peking

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 June 1912 · page 5

An attempt to deduct half the soldiers pay for a subscription to a patriotic loan caused the Mukden mutiny. One hundred and fifty mutineers were captured and…

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Woman Seriously Wounded. Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 1 July 1912 · page 5

A disturbance occurred in a house at Redfern yesterday, during which a woman had her throat gashed severely. The man who is alleged to have been the assailant…

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Further Fighting Takes Place. 200 Turks Killed and Wounded. Rome

Northern Star · Monday 1 July 1912 · page 5

Intelligence has been received that further, fighting has taken place at Sidisaid heights. The Italians, carried the entrenchments,…

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Soldiers in Politics. Constantinople

Northern Star · Thursday 4 July 1912 · page 5

Shevket Pasha has pleaded the urgency of the Bill imposing, penalties on officers and soldiers partaking fin politics and states. It isvnecessary owing to the mutiny…

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May Day in Paris Mob Fight Police and Soldiers

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 3

Sixty thousand troops were on duty in the streets of Paris on Tuesday, and May day did not pass with it much tumult, the worst disorders taking place at…

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England's Class War. a Thousand Belated Remedies

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 10 July 1912 · page 4

Two hundred ships of all nations are lying idle in the Thames, Upwards of 100,000 laborers are idle about the wharves, and in the streets. At any…

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Turkish Cabinet. Minister of War Resigns. Constantinople

Northern Star · Friday 12 July 1912 · page 5

Shevket Pasha has resigned, owing to the discontent in the army and growing opposition in Parliament…

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War in the Air. Fighting Equipment of Airships. Berlin

Northern Star · Friday 12 July 1912 · page 5

The Zeppelin the Third, a military air cruiser, has been fitted with bomb-throwing tubes, observation turret, machine gun, to combat other airships…

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Cost of the War

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1912 · page 6

so far, the official history of the Boer War has cost L25.000, and on!y one volume has yet appeared: Mr Haldane has given instructions that it must be…

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Hustling the War Office Barnacles

Northern Star · Monday 15 July 1912 · page 6

There is no more popular personality in the Isle of Man than Lord Raglan, who has been installed Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons in the Island. For the…

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General Homer Lea Is a Broken Man. Soldier of Fortune Who Went to Assist Chinese Rebels

Northern Star · Monday 15 July 1912 · page 3

A physical and mental wreck, broken by the Orient, General Homer Lea the California military genius, author, confidante of Dr. Sun Yat Sen and adviser of the…

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War News. in War Time

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1912 · page 7

Probably every one admits (writes the London "Times" in June) in the abstract the importance of controlling, and, if need be, restricting, the…

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The War Correspondent His Great Pretensions

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1912 · page 2

The plaint of the war correspondent who has been sent away empty by the Japanese is handled severely in "Blackwood. "The correspondent complains that…

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Wireless Telegraphy in the Russo-japanese War

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1912 · page 2

A large company including many eminent men in science, attended a dinner given at the Hotel Cecil to Dr. Lee de Forest, inventor of the De Forest system…

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Naval Estimates. Increasing the Programme. Germansy's Readiness for War. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 24 July 1912 · page 5

Mr. Winston Churchill, in introducing his supplementary Navy Estimate, said this was due to the new German Navy law, whereunder four-this of the vessels…

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British Army. Lord Roberts Terse Declaration. Still Unprepared for War. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 24 July 1912 · page 5

Lord Roberts, speaking at the Mansion House yesterday, declared that the British Army was as unprepared for, war now as it was in 1809. The experience of the Boer…

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