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The wars & local soldiers, 1904

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Latest Cablegrams. the War. Port Arthur

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 April 1904 · page 3

The Berlin, steamer, has reached New Chang, and reports having seen 26 warships convoying 100 Japanese transports in the direction of Kinchan, near Port Arthur…

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The War in the East. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 April 1904 · page 1

THE great Russian military painter Vassill Verestchagin, was drowned in the battleship Petropavlovsk. Tho latent Russian disasters have caused…

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Latest War News. Japs Chasing the Russians

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 April 1904 · page 1

A " Times" wireless message from its correspondent on board the [?] states that although the concentrated beams of four search lights revealed every spar and rail of the Koryo…

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The War. Japanese Official Account. Of the Port Arthur Affair

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 April 1904 · page 6

The Acting Consul-General in Sydney for Japan, Mr. K. Ywasaki, has received the following account of the Port Arthur affair by cable from Baron Komura, Japanese…

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Dooley on the War

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 22 April 1904 · page 2

'I see by th' papers,' said Hennessy 'That Roosha was unprepared for the Japanese.' 'T[?] a delicate situation, Hi[?]issy,'…

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Kottenkamp's Widow. a Story of the Franco-prussian War

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 22 April 1904 · page 5

When the Franco-Prussian war broke out in 1870 my father was a major-general in command of a cavalry brigade in Westphalla, and I a student at Bonn. I was…

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The War in the East

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 23 April 1904 · page 4

General Kuropatkin reports that Russian outposts have occupied the [?] on tho lower Yalu, within 400 yards of the Japanese, who retreated…

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A New Phase of the War. No War Songs Allowed in London Music Halls

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 23 April 1904 · page 8

THE Lord Chamberlain has once more disturbed the music halls. He has not longthened the skirts of the ballet, or expressed displeasure because some actor has poked a…

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Latest War News. Japanese Constructing Submarines. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 23 April 1904 · page 5

The Japanese are constructing f[?]r sub- marines for use in the present war…

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Russo-japanese War. London

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 April 1904 · page 2

A Seoul telegram states that the Japanese are preparing for a simultaneous rash at three points, including Port Arthur. There are 84 newspaper correspondents…

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The War

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 26 April 1904 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.—The following is the Japanese official version of the incidents which led up to the destruction of the Russian flagship Petropavlovsk…

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The War. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 April 1904 · page 3

Rossian strategists believe that it will take the Japanese several weeks to cross the difficult mountain pass a in northern Korea. An attempt to d toy two Russian…

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The War in the East

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 27 April 1904 · page 2

THE resignation of Admiral Alexieff as Russian Viceroy in the East has not yet been accepted by the Czar. M. Zinovieff, the Russian Ambassdor at…

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Latest War News. Two New Russian Cruisers

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 27 April 1904 · page 3

An attempt to destroy the Russian cruisers Jemtchug and Izumrud at the Nova shipbuilding yard has been frustrated. Four floating mines were discovered in the river opposite the…

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The Three Bushmen; or Australians in the Far East. Published by Special Arrangement. a Thrilling Story of the Russo-Japacese War. COPYRIGHT. Chapter I. a Fatal Kiss

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 29 April 1904 · page 4

"I SAW you, and heard every word," cried Ruth, scornfully, her eyes flashing. They stood facing each other in a…

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The War. No Surrender

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 5

A Russian torpedo boat destroyer has sank the Japanese transport Kinshumaru with a landing party. The Japanese refused to surrender…

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The War in the East

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 5

The Japanese colony at Gensan, which is unprotected was alarmed on Monday by the arrival of three Russian cruisers and two torpedo craft from Vladivostok. The Russians sank a small steamer…

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A New Phase of the War. No War Songs Allowed in London Music Halls

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 6

The Lord Chamberlain has once more disturbed the music halls. He has not lengthened the skirts of the ballet, or expressed displeasure…

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Latest War News. Russia Means to Win. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 5

Mr. Henry Norman, M.P. for South Wolverhampton, states that the Czar declared to him a few days ago that England ought to understand that Russia is absolutely determined to…

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The War and the Wheat Market. What an English Paper Says

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 3

DUCKING the past week much comment has been caused by the fear of a rise in the price of bread as a result of the war in the Far East. "Lloyd's learns from a specially informed cor…

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