Fears of War
London, Monday—The admiralty authorities are maintaining the reserve squa[?]ron in a state of preparation for emergency…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1899
212 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 11
War in Samoa
The R M S Alameda, which arrived at Auckland on Wednesday morning from San Francisco, brings the latest Samoan news. It appears that the Chief Justice, Mr W…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Interesting Lecture Incidents Characteristic of the Maories in Peace and War
The above is the .title of an interesting and instructive lecture delivered-by Dr. Bruce in the Presbyterian Church on Friday evening. The lecturer’s acquaintance with the .Maoris…
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A striking story is going the rounds concerning an officer who, being refused leave to go with the Chitral expedition, obtained five days' leave to go…
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London, Thursday—The Governor of Cape Colony has forwarded to Mr Joseph Chamberlain the Uitlanders petition to the Queen, as adopted at the recent meeting at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Just Heard of the War
Odd people live in someof the remote parts of this section of the State, says a Charleston correspondent of the "New York Sun." Illiterate, they take no interest in mails…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War in the Philippines
The steamer Airlie, which has arrived form the East, bring files of the Hongkong Daily Press up to March 26, from which we extract the following particulars regarding the war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ara[?]uen. Our Soldiers
After [?]breadth escapes from floods and fair faces, the Araluen Button of the Australian Horse are back against at their own camp-fires, and from the stores of their…
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The American newspapers are despondent in tone concerning the Philippine war, and express much division of opinion respecting the expediency…
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London, Thursday—Further particulars of the fighting at Caleput shows that six thousand Americans engaged the bulk of Aguinaldo's army, and shelled the rebels to…
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THE following additional news was received from Samoa on Wednesday[?] "Instructions from the Powers to cease hostilities have been received…
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A soldier once got drank and was put into a cowshed to sleep off the effects of the drink, on some straw. During the night a thief entered the shed and stole the cow, but…
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The Samoan war is temporality at an end, as a result of the recent dispatches. Military work is confined to strong bodies of friendly natives and bluejackets engaged in…
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All attempts to reason with Aguinaldo on the futility of resisting American occupation having ended in nothing, Wheaton's Brigade was aroused at 3 a.m. on the 6th ultimo…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Song of the Wounded
"Another of the thousand instances of unselfishness which I saw on the battlefield gave me almost as great a shock at the field hospital as the incident of the stenographer had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shot on the Battlefield. a Song of the Wounded
Edward Marshall, the heroic correspondent who insisted on dictating his account of the [?] before Santiago while paralysed by the shot in the spine and supposed to be dying…
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Mr. Woodford Leonard a Johannesburg barrister brother of the ex-Attorney General of the Cape and also of the loader of the Transvaal National Union in the course of…
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Rumors of a somewhat starting nature have been (says the Iloilo correspondent of the Manila Times on May 15) circulated recently, one of them being that the rebels…
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The Manila Timas says that in conversation with one of his friends recently General Gregorio Del Pilar expressed himself in the following manner in regard to himself and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Degrading a War God
The Chinese war god has suffered at good many ups and downs during the last' year or so. Only a few months bock he was promoted from a secondary position…
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