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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1897

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Latest War News. May 22

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 May 1897 · page 2

The Cretans are summoning an assembly with the object of talking measures to continue the struggle for union with Greece…

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CABLEGRAMS. The War in Europe. Details of Fighting. London, May 20

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 May 1897 · page 2

LATER particulars of the battle of Domoko show that the Turkish forces under Edhem Pasha numbered 50,000 men…

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The War Drift

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 May 1897 · page 2

London, Monday—Bands of Greek irregulars are plundering widely. The Greek Premier is suspected of fomenting the dynastic agitation, and the King is…

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The Turko-Grecian War

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 May 1897 · page 3

The Turks have intimated to the Greek Government the conditions contingent to an armistice. The Greek Premier replied that the Powers had arranged the conditions…

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LONDON. Thursday. Latest War News

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 2

It is reported that England threatens to withdraw from the concert of the Powers if Turkey is allowed to occupy Thessaly,…

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CABLEGRAMS. The War In Europe. London, May 25

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 2

The dispatch of the joint note drawn up by the Ambassadors in Constantinople defining the views of the Powers as to the terms of…

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The Turko-Grecian War

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 May 1897 · page 2

Russia is willing to assume payment of the Greek indemnity to Turkey by deducting the equivalent from Turkey's indemnity to herself. Russia would then consent to the…

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CABLEGRAMS. The War in Europe. Greece and Turkey. London, May 28

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 2

ALL the measures which are being taken by the Turks in Thessaly point to the retention of the province…

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The War

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 2 June 1897 · page 2

London, Monday—The Powers have asked the Porte to instruct the Turkish commander to accept a purely military, armistice of un limited duration in order to enable the peace…

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LONDON. Thursday. Latest from the Seat of War

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 June 1897 · page 2

The Porte has agreed to prolong the armistice with Greece for a fortnight. The Times says that Bulgaria…

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Letter to a Local Resident from the Seat of War

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 June 1897 · page 2

STAFF-SERGEANT RICHARDS received a letter on Monday morning from his sister,who is English governess to a family named Triandafillidi living at Athens. Although…

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The War Cloud

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 2

London, Thursday—The Porte has agreed to the armistice with Greece, during peace negotiations. It is understood that England and Russia…

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More Details of the War

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 June 1897 · page 2

THE R.M S. Oruba, which arrived at Albany on Friday from London, brings the following details of the fighting between the Greeks and the Turks…

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Peace or War

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 17 July 1897 · page 2

London, Thursday.—The "Times" states that the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs has been requested to especially consent or refuse to negotiate for a settlement of…

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An Old Soldier's Story. a Reminiscence of the Zulu Campaign

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 August 1897 · page 4

Mr Richard Groves ownes a comfortable house and grounds at Hyde Park, near Rookwood, Sydney, and is spending the remains of a stirring life in honorable retirement. To a reporter who…

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An Old Soldier's Story. a Reminiscence of the Zulu War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 August 1897 · page 2

Mr. Richard Groves owns a comfortable house and grounds at Hyde Park, near Rookwool, Sydney, and is spending the remainder of a stirring life in honorable re[?]ment. To a reporter who…

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Soldiers' Sensations in Battle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 September 1897 · page 2

"If you want to know what my sensations were in my first battle," said a distinguished colonel to the writer, "I'll tell you; they were chiefly bewilderment…

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War Inevitable

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 2

London, Thursday—War is considered to be inevitable between Spain and the United States over the Cuban question…

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Bungendore. On the War Path

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 2

THE good people of Bungendore are game to the backbone They are not of the sort who sit down quiety and see the privileges which they have enjoyed from the genesis…

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The Sketcher. An Episode of the Afghan War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 November 1897 · page 2

"But I tells yer I seed 'Im again' to the rear with my own heyes!" "Well, wot it yer did? The colonel said it, and so in course it must be true…

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