War News. London, June 14
While the Japanese transport Taihoka Maru, 2796 tons, belonging to the Osaka Steam Navigation Company, was laying mines off Port Arthur an explosion occurred. Nineteen of her crew,…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1904
301 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 16
Latest Cables. the War. London
During a fire at Warsaw, in Poland, a large body of work men came into collision, with the police. Shouts of “Down with the police. Shouts of “Down with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News. London, June 16
The Japanese claim to have inflicted a crushing defeat on the Russians at Telissan (Telesze). Advancing on Tuesday in two columns the Japanese drove back the Russians to the east of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Gables. the War London
The “St Petersburg Gazette ” of to-day reports that a sanguinary battle has been [?] with the Japanese near Has [?] on the railway south of Line [?] The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News. London June 21
The St. Petersburg Gazette of to-day reports that a sanguinary battle has been fought with the Japanese sear Hai-cheng, on the railway south of Llao-yang. The Russians retreated after suffering…
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The recent reports of important [?] were [?] based on [?] in the vicnity of the [?] Sinyen and haicheng Russian…
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Resent reports of heavy fighting are apparently based upon constant skirmishing in the vicinity of the Siu-yen-Hai-cheng road. Russian account show that General Oku. General Nodzo, and…
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Nearly all the Russian garrison at New [?] has been withra [?] A Russian outpost of 300 men has been withdrawn from near the Motion Pass In the six…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Wires. the War London
The latest reports received in St Petersburg about the progress of the war state that General Kuroki’s army is within a distance of nineteen miles from that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Time - Expired Soldier a Pathetic [?]
He was the only other occupant of Hie [?] Hire class smoker in the northward bound train He was in plain clothes, but soldier was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News. London. June 28
Further particulars have been obtained from newspaper correspondents of the operations which led to the destruction of the battleship Peresviet and the damage to another battleship and a cruiser…
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The officers of a German steamer state that yesterday they were within fifteen miles of a Japanese squadron consisting of two battleships, three cruisers, and several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News. London, July 1
The fighting at Feng-chui-ling on Sunday and Monday was very severe. A Russian force, consisting of eleven battalions of infantry, twelve squadrons or cavalry, and three batteries of…
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General Kuroki reports that two Russian battalions attacked the [?] (pass) at Dawson Monday, during a dense fog The Russians were three repulsed and then…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blockade Running. Incidents of the American Civil War
Stories of blockade running into the Southern States (during the Civil War) may [?] familiar to many; but the following episode, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another War Victim The Sad Fate of One of Our Old Favorites
He seemed so wan so pitiful as he leaned wearily against the [?] unsympathetic wall. His clothes were rags through which…
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General Kuroki reports that two battalions of Russian troops attacked the Japanese at Motienling (pass) at dawn on Monday during a dence fog, and were thrice repulsed. The Japanese pursued…
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ON Monday last (4th instant) the Japanese secured Lung-hwang-tung heights, six miles eastward of Port Arthur, 100 Russians being killed and…
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According to reports from Chinese refugees the Japanese are slowly, but surely, encircling Port Arthur. One division, by utilising by-paths, on the 5th (Thursday)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News. London, July 7
Chinese refugees from Port Arthur state that the fortress is completely hemmed In on the land side. The Japanese have commanding all the commanding hills within a radius of seven miles…
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