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The wars & local soldiers, 1905

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War News

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 3 January 1905 · page 2

Foreign correspondents arriving in Tokio declare that the Japanese achievements during the present war are sufficient to stagger belief…

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Latest War News. London

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 3 January 1905 · page 2

Hostilities have been suspended at Port Arthur. General Stossel has written to Nogi, commanding the besiegers army, in which…

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The War in the East

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 3

Among the booty captured by the Japanese at Ehu-long shan on Wednesday were four large calibre guns seven of small calibre and two inactive guns…

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The Lattest Cablegrams. the War. Port Arthur To be Surrendered

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 3

It is officially announced that General Stoessel, Russian Commander at Port Arthur, has written to General Nogi in reference to surrender…

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Latest War News. the Fall of Port Arthur. Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 3

It is officially announced that Port Arthur is unable to hold out any longer and that General Stoessel has surrendered. A Conference to arrange terms of surrender…

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The Story of The Blacks. The Aborigines of Australia. (Published by Special Arrangement) Chapter Xvii. the War of Extermination in Van Dieman's Land

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 7

No declaration of war could be more explicit. It was fully understood and acted upon by the whites, who doubtless interpreted it as a sort of…

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The War in the East

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 6

Reformers in Russian are delighted, declaring that a weighty obstacle to the realisation of their constitutional aspirations has been removed…

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The War. a Russian Threat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 5

The NOVOE VREMYA states that British warships are shadowing the Baltic fleet, in order to disclose their movements to Japan. The least cause, the journal continues, may…

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Latest War News. Britain and Russia. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 3

The British Ambassador at St. Petersburg has strongly protested against the allegation that British ships were shadowing the Baltic fleet…

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The War. Fall of Port Arthur. Terms of Surrender. London

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 2

It is officially announced that Port Arthur is unable to hold out any longer, and that General Stoessel has surrendered…

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The War. London

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 2

Five Russian regiments, which at the start of the Beige of Port Arthur numbered 12,000, still have a total of 206 officers and 5451 men…

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Amenities of the War

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 3

The correspondent of the "Daily Mail" at Tokio says that General Stoessel has accepted the invitation of the Mikado to see him in Tokio…

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Latest War News. London

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 2

The blockade of the Li[?]tong Peninsular has been raised. A small garrison remains at Port Arthur where a naval station will he established…

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War News Fall of Port Arthur

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 3

The conference at [?] between the chief staff officers of General Stoessel, the Commandant of Port Arthur, and General Nogi, the Japanese Commander,…

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The War in the East

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 3

ADMIRAL Dabassoff replaces Admiral Kaz[?]akolf on the Dogger Bank Commission at Paris. The Japanese are bridging the Yalu River, linking the Korean and Chinese railways and…

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Latest War News. Losses at Port Arthur

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 3

The Japanese estimate the Russian casualties at Port Arthur at 23,00…

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The Latest Cablegrams. the War. Blockade Raised

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 3

The blockade of Liao Tung Peninsula has been raised. A small Japanese garrison will remain at Fort Arthur and a naval station will be established there…

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Acts of War. Russia's Blunder Has Many Remarkable Parallels

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 7

Someone has defined history as consisting of a big bundle of little things, and the criminal blander on the part of the Russian' Baltic Fleet may be…

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The Story of The Blacks. The Aborigines of Australia. (Published by Special Arrangement) Chapter Xvii. the War of Extermination in Van Dieman's Land

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 7

But just here public opinion began to work. The press was beginning to exercise its power, and after it had been pointed out that it would be folly…

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The War. After the Surrennder

The Castlereagh · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 11

The Japanese are now in possession of all the Port Arthur forts Eighty-six Russian officers have been paroled…

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