War Commission. London
General Brace Hamilton testifying before the Royal Commission on the conduct of the war, said he did not think the British regulars were equal to…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1903
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Australian Soldiers. Remarks by Judge Docker
WHEN sentencing a prisoner named Hubert Nolan at the Orange Quarter Sessious last Thursday, for receiving cattle knowing them to have been stolen,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Prime Minister and the Cardinal. Samoan War Question
IN the advice Sir Edmund Barton gave to the Governor -General over the application from Sydney for a commission of inquiry into the allegations made by Cardinal Moran, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some Great Men's Defects. Poets, Soldiers, and Scientists Alike Afflicted
Homer, tradition tells us, was blind though it is unlikely that he was born so, since his [?] appreciation of colour as shown in such expressions as "rosy-fingered dawn," "The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Outbreak in Trinidad (West Indies). Conflict Between the Mob and the Soldiery
Serious trouble has arisen upon the British owned island of Trinidad, one of the largest of the West Indian islands. The crowd being forbidden to enter the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Eastern Question. A European War Probable
OWING to the messing of Turkish troops on the old Servian frontier, Servia is reinforcing her frontier garrisons. Conflicts with bloodshed have occurred at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fortune of War
"I'm not in the habit of interfering, as you are well aware." said Mrs. Ferrars, senior, to Mrs. Ferrais, junior. "It is always at thankless task, especially in any difference…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Important Decision Re Soldiers' Pay. No Action is Maintainable at Law
A VERY important decision was given by Mr. Justice Pring at Sydney on Friday last. John Ryan, a gunner in the Permanent Artillery, volunteered for foreign service, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sketcher. Strategy in War
NOW the length to which deception may with honour be carried in warfare is a question very difficult to decide. History tells us of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A "Wild" Rose. Miss Scott Prophesies Civil War
MISS ROSE SCOTT, president of the Now South Wales Women's Political Educational League who arrived in Melbourne on Monday, to take pari in the meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →European Politics. War May Occur at any Time
SPEAKING at a meeting at the Royal Exchange, Sydney, on Monday, Mr. F. Wyatt, Envoy of the Navy League, England, said:-- "A short time ago while in Japan I found the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatally Wounded. Sydney.Monday
Mr, Howard L. Way, 19 years of Age, son of Mr. H. R. Way, solicitor, was fatally wounded on Sunday while out shooting near his parents' residence,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Man-of-war Launched by a Baby's Finger
IF anyone wishes to know how much sensation can be crowded into a few seconds, let him for the first time witness the launching of one of our mammoth…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Want War
The President of the Rockhampton Chamber of Commerce, who has just returned from Japan, says the people there are anxious for war with Russia. He does not…
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By the discharge of a rifle at the Scone range on Saturday, Sergeant Thrift was wounded, it is feared fatally. Trooper Lonsdale was also slightly injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Commission
A ROYAL Commission appointed to inquire into the conduct of the recent war in South Africa has prepared a report, which deals with the appalling state of unpreparedness…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Japan and War
The "Times" correspondent at Pekin says events in the far East will shortly compel the world's attention. Korean independence is doomed, and many other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Romance of the War. President Kruger's Daughter and the Australian Contingenter
AMONG the Australians who rushed to the scat of war in the first contingents some three years ago was Mr. T. J. Whelan, of Molong, son of a wellknown resident of that place. While in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sketcher. the Humours of War Privat[?]ing
HOW did privateering come into existence Why privateering is as old the game of war itself. In the dark days of ancient…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War Office
The War Office bas decided to re-arm the cavalry with new, light, straight-thrusting swords. The Gun Committee has also adopted as a field piece a gun of 15 pounds,…
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