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The wars & local soldiers, 1907

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Returned Soldiers' Pay

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 July 1907 · page 4

The total amount paid by the State Government to returned soldiers who took part in the Boer war amounts to £25,980…

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War and Warriors. Concerning Both

The Cobar Herald · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 7

We want no leniency from our best enemies, nor from those whom we greatly love. Therefore, let me speak truth to you…

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Another Book War

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1907 · page 7

Old Gent: "Don't you think, my lad, that it would be better for you to be at home reading a good book than wasting your time in this fashion?"…

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State V. Commonwealth. Astounding Action of Mr. Car Ruthers. "An Act of War."

The Wellington Times · Thursday 22 August 1907 · page 4

A quantity of wire-netting, landed to the order of the Government at Darling Island, was romoved from the wharf yesterday…

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As in Real War

The Cobar Herald · Friday 30 August 1907 · page 7

There was a certain man who was a peace faddist. He liked to get hold of stories that reflected upon militarism. Such stories, he declared, were…

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War Balloons

The Wellington Times · Monday 2 September 1907 · page 3

The British war office has built an airship approximating the type of the French war balloon…

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Trying War Balloons at Aldershot

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 9 October 1907 · page 4

EACH war balloon has attached to it, on very special occasions, a parachute, of the pattern ordinarily used by public performers, and, as illustrating the…

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No Possibility of War with United States

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 9 October 1907 · page 3

Mr. Sma[?]y, New York correspondent of the London " Times" declares that the majority of the [?]ober-minded Americans do not believe that there is any possibility of war with…

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Wheat-growing in Manchuria. The Theatre of the Late War

The Cobar Herald · Friday 8 November 1907 · page 2

A REPORT has recently been addressed to the Premier by Mr. J. B. Suttor, Commercial Agent for New South Wales in the East, in which some very…

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Success in War. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 4

Lord Charles Beresford says that success in war now depends upon strategy, and that the nary must be kept in a condition of efficiency, so that in case of war it may…

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A Remnant of the War. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 November 1907 · page 2

The Russian Ambassador in London has paid the Japanese Ambassador £4,860,440, the balance due for the maintenance of the Russian prisoners…

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Native Troubles in South Africa. Possible Zulu War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 3

IT is reported that the Zulus are mobolising in small numbers, and that two of the most powerful of the Natal native tribes, which total 9000 fighting men, are restles and are prepared…

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Speak Pakeha—live or Die. an Incident in the Maori War. (Copyright.)

The Wellington Times · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 1

We Australians, with few exceptions, as yet know little of those twin islands, sea girt by the Pacific, lying some few hundred miles South…

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Speak Pakeha—-live or Die. an Incident in the Maori War. (Copyright)

The Castlereagh · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 1

We Australia with few exceptions, as yet know little of those twin islands sea girl by the Pacific lying some few hundred miles South…

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Speak Pakeha—live or Die. an Incident in the Maori War. (Copyright.)

The Western Herald · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 1

We Australians, with few exceptions, as yet know little of those twin islands, sea girt by the Pacific, lying some few hundred miles South…

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Speak Pakeha—live or Die. an Incident in the Maori War. (Copyright.)

The Cobar Herald · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 1

We Australians, with few exceptions, as yet know little of those twin islands, sea girt by the Pacific. lying some few hundred miles South…

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A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea

The Cobar Herald · Tuesday 31 December 1907 · page 2

The Treat in Store for Lovers of a Thrilling and Romantic Narrative of Tender devotion, dramatic situation, valorous adventure,…

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