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The wars & local soldiers, 1911

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Chapter Xviii. War at Our Doors

The Western Herald · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 2

By this time all Australia was aflame with the war feeling. In every city, every town and hamlet in the Commonwealth, there was a rallying tothe standard…

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Cost of a German War Appalling Figures

The Cobar Herald · Friday 27 January 1911 · page 7

According to a writer in the "Quarterly Review," the loss to France by the France-Prussian War is circulated at 544,000,000 sterling, while the victor's…

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The European War-cloud

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 4

TROUBLE is again brewing amongst the Powers. Discordant rumblings have made themselves herad lately, and the European war-cloud is hovering over us…

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Cost of a German War Appalling Figures

The Western Herald · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 7

According to a writer in the "Quarterly Review," the loss to France by the France-Prussian War is circulated at 544,000,000 sterling, while the victor's…

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Chapter Xxii. the War—here and at Home

The Western Herald · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 2

How could Brisbane possibly raise five millions to buy off the invader? That was the cry of all who heard of the terrible demand that had been made…

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War in the Air. Aeroplane V. Dirigible. Difficulty of Destroying a Balloon

The Western Herald · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 3

Mr W. F. Reid, lecturing on Tuesday at a meeting of the Aeronautical Society (said "Lloyd's News" on October 30) expressed the opinion that the destructive…

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Soldier's Heart. Food and Clothes Reform

The Western Herald · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 3

Mr Haldane, Secretary for War, speaking at the Royal Array Medical School, Millbank, yesterday afternoon, in connection with the prize…

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Chapter Xxviii. the War in England Moves to a Sudden Conclusion

The Western Herald · Saturday 25 February 1911 · page 2

England was distressed, but never subdued, by the presence of nearly 400,000 German troops upon its territory. As the narrative in previous chapters…

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Civil War

The Wellington Times · Monday 27 February 1911 · page 2

While a good deal of allowance has to be made for rash and exaggerated statements during a political campaign, there are limits beyond which it is not…

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Dubbo's Youthful Soldiers

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 4 March 1911 · page 4

ON Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon Dr. Burkitt, military medical officer, and Lieut. J. Heane, area officer, examined 120 boys as to their physical fitness, while 50 were examined…

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Italian War Office Laxity. London, Monday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1911 · page 2

In the Italian Parliament radicals are demanding an investigation into the laxity of the War Office as a result of the disclosures following the…

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The Despatch Rider. a Tale of Love and War in the Indian Hills

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 11 March 1911 · page 8

FROM a wooded bank to the left of the compound a spurt of flame stabbed the darkness. Viciously it flickered out a venomous…

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War Abolished by 1913

The Western Herald · Wednesday 15 March 1911 · page 4

Mr. Andrew Carnegie gave an address before the New York Republican Club the other night in which he applauded very highly the proposal made…

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A British Soldier in the Soudan

The Cobar Herald · Friday 17 March 1911 · page 2

During the last Soudan War (writes an ex-soldier), I was one of the Guards' Camel Corps up the Nile, and, before starting across the Bayuda desert, we…

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Mutiny in Brazil. Two Hundred Killed and Wounded. Capital Shelled

The Western Herald · Saturday 18 March 1911 · page 6

Another mutiny has been suppressed at Rio de Janeiro by the firm action of the Brazilian Government, but while it lasted there was desperate fighting…

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Latest Cablegrams. To Prevent War. London, Thursday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1911 · page 4

Lord Charles Beresford says the time has arrived for English speaking countries to combine to prevent war…

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A British Soldier in the Soudan

The Western Herald · Saturday 18 March 1911 · page 2

During the last Soudan War (writes an ex-soldier), I was one of the Guardas' Camel Corps up the Nile, and, before starting across the Bayuda desert, we…

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A British Soldier in India

The Cobar Herald · Friday 24 March 1911 · page 7

An infantry regiment was stationed at P______,in India, at the same time as a certain battery of artillery was quartered there. There was quartered there. There was great rivalry between…

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A British Soldier in India

The Western Herald · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 7

An infantry regiment was stationed at P—, in India, at the same time as a certain battery of artillery was quartered there. There was great rivalry between…

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Now Vision of War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 29 March 1911 · page 4

Professor Branley has discovered, cays the 'Petit Parisien,' that by wireless telemechanism he can produce disastrous results on anenemy from afar. He claims that by means…

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