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Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1907

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Kuropatkin History of the War Suppressed

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 3

General Kuropatkin, who commanded the Russian forces in the recent operations against the Japanese, has published a book on the war, but the Russian Government has ordered it…

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War Stores Burnt

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 5

A large building containing the whole camp outfit of the Southern command, has been burnt at Portsmouth. The damages amount to many thousands of pounds. The ordnance store,…

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War Against Bridge. a Young Girl's Losses

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 7

From New York on 15th October the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:—Mr. Justice Shuster's decision on…

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Hew Armoured War Autcmobiles

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 7

The now types of armoured antomobiles equipped with rapid-fire guns, which have been constructed in France and also in Austria, show that a great advance has been…

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British Soldiers For Canadian Army

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 8

About 150 men of the recently disbanded 3rd Battalion Manchester Regiment, who have since been temporarily attached to the 2nd Battalion at Guernsey, left the island,…

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Balloons in War

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 7

General A. W. Grooly traces the use' and discusses the various uses of the balloon in time of war. The first time it was proposed to use the…

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The War in Central America

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 27 March 1907 · page 3

The President of Honduras has fled in a steamer. The Nicaraguans are in pursuit…

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Turkey's Starving Soldiers

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 5

Turkish soldiers from Yemon, Arabia, whose term of service had expired, on lending at Alexandretta, starving and ragged, surrounded the house of the Governor and threatened to…

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Turkey's Starving Soldiers. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 4

Turkish soldiers from Yemen, Arabia, whose term of service had expired, on landing at Alexandretta, starving and ragged, surrounded the house of the Governor, and…

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The Soldier's Wedding

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 7

AMONG the many good stories in Sir Evelyn Wood's autobigraph[?] is one concerning General Sir Alfred Horsford, who believed in a celibate army. When in…

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War Umeuncle

The Castlereagh · Friday 19 April 1907 · page 12

Weather.—On Saturday, 6th inst., a thunderstorm passed us the rainfall registered bring 25 points. It was considerably heavier in other paris of the district;…

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The British War Office and American Meat

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 3

The War Office has issued a circular stating that the quality of meat supplied to the Army from America is in every way satisfactory…

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Soldiers' Rewards

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 3

BRITAIN has generally been generous in rewarding her soldiers. Perhaps the Duke of Wellington came off best in this respect. In his earlier Peninsular…

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Labor and War

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 May 1907 · page 4

Ben Tillett, the English Labor leader who is on a visit to Australia, says that the Labor Party in England hopes by a closer contact with…

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Soldiers' Pockets [?] Up

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 8

The regimental orders of the R.G.A., 1st Scottish Sub-District, of March 1 contained the following edict:-- 'O.C. companies will report to this office…

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Councillors at War. Aldermen Lauer and Walker Resign. a Challenge and Acceptance

The Wellington Times · Monday 10 June 1907 · page 2

There was full attendance of both aldermen and ratepayers at last Thursday night's meeting of the Council, attracted no doubt by rumour that…

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Japan and the United States. Possibility of War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 4

MUCH uneasiness prevails at Washington at the disquieting tenor of the despatches from Tokio. There are indications that Mr. W. H. Taft, Secretary for War, will make a…

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Kalser's Hand in a War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 19 June 1907 · page 4

An interesting sidelight on the Russo. Japanese war has been thrown by a recent writer who says that the Kaiser Wilhelm. who the Germans occupied…

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The Last of the Boer War. Payment to Contingenters

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 19 June 1907 · page 2

MR. WILSHIRE, S.M. sitting as a Royal Commission, recently investigated the claims for increased pay of a number of Australian soldiers who served in South Africa. Mr. Wilshire's…

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Disturbances in France. Soldiers Fraternise with the Rioters

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 26 June 1907 · page 3

REUTER'S correspondent states that 300 int[?]ntry left the barracks at Agd[?] with arms and a[?]nition, and marched to B[?]zieres, where they joined the rioters…

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