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The wars & local soldiers, 1870

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War Items Via London

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 November 1870 · page 4

LONDON, October 11.—War material is shipped daily from Liverpool in large lots—supposed to be for France. The Germans are closing in on Thionville…

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The War News. More Documents in the Tuillerics—new Engines of Destruction

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 November 1870 · page 2

Tours, September 30th.—A great number of private documents belonging to the Emperor, which were recently seized at the Tuilleries by the officers of the new…

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Arrival of the California Mail. News from the Seat of War. More Fighting. The Prussians still Successful Paris declared Impregnable. Rumoured Death of Prince Charles Frederick. Bismark desires Peace. Spanish Republicans joining the French. England and other Powers still Neutral. Age Office Thursday 1 p.m

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 November 1870 · page 4

IT will be seen by referring to the news by the last mail that the items of news furnished below, give only eight days' later news from the seat of war, our last…

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The War News

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 1 December 1870 · page 2

IN our last we placed the position of the contending armies fully and fairly before our readers. We now resume the history from the point at which it closed in our…

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Incidents of the War

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 8 December 1870 · page 4

"The first act for the defence of Paris," says the Gaulois of Thursday, "has been accomplished. Since yesterday the setting fire to the woods of the environs has…

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The War News. After the Battle

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 8 December 1870 · page 4

A correspondent of the London Times writing from Florenville on September 4th, says:—We heard dreadful accounts of the horrors still to be seen in the…

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[?] of a Wounded German

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 15 December 1870 · page 4

THE North German Gazette contains an interesting narrative written by a soldier who was wounded in the battle before Metz on the 18th. It gives a vivid…

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