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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1905

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War News. London, December 29

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 2

Reports of the capture of Erh-lung-shan, an eastern portion of the inner defence of Port Arthur, state that on Wednesday morning seven mines of dynamite were exploded by the Japanese under the…

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Brilliant Feats by War Correspondents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 2

Many brilliant journalistic feats are associated with "war specials"—that heroic corps of writers inured by innumerable hardships, dangers…

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War News. London, January 3

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 2

The terms of the surrender of Port Arthur to the Japanese have been arranged, and the Russian Commissioner will sign the capitulation. After the capture of Sung-shu-shan on Saturday…

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Duration the War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 2

The premiums at Lloyd’s are equivalent to 2 to 1 against the war terminating by May…

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War News. London, January 6

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 2

The Paris edition of the New York Herald publishes a rumour current in St. Petersburg that the Kniaz Suvaroff, 13,516 tons, one of the most modern battleships of the Baltic Fleet, struck a rock, and…

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Why Russian Soldiers are Loyal

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 4

Another shipment of copies of secret Russian Army circulars has just reached London. Some of them throw an even stronger light upon the peculiar and drastic methods which…

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War News. London, January 10

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 2

Continental opinion on the supreme heroism of the defence of Port Arthur is changing since the revelation of the strength of the surrendered garrison…

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Latest Cables. London, Saturday. the War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 2

The Japanese forces made a triumphant entry into Port Arthur on Friday. Detachments of all the attacking…

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War News. London, January 13

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 2

General Nogi, who commanded the forces which besieged Port Arthur, reports that the surrender has been completed. The list of guns, forts; warships, ships…

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Latest Cables. London, Tuesday. the War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 January 1905 · page 3

Reuter’s correspondent with General [?] declares that the surrender of Port Arthur was unnecessary, as there were [?] 31,000 effectives in the fortress…

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The Toll of War. Mortality Statistics of the South African Campaign

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 January 1905 · page 2

With the co-operation of the War Office, the actu[?] of one of the largest indu[?] insurance companies have compiled valuable…

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War News. London, January 17

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 2

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that Germany is arranging with Russia that France and Germany shall beat down the terms on which Japan will conclude peace…

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Latest Cables. the War. London

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1905 · page 3

He Mikado seat his armies in the field mine cartloads of gilts. The Japanese prize court at Sasebo has condemned the seized British ships…

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War News. London, January 20

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 January 1905 · page 2

Colonel Gaedke, representing the Berliner Tageblatt with the Russian forces in Manchuria, in an article contributed to the Standard states that he considers that at the end of January General…

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War

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 27 January 1905 · page 1

Talk, if you will, of hero deed, Of clash of arms and battle wonders; But prate not of your Christian creed Preached by the cannon's murderous…

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America’s New Gun. What Uncle Sam [?] Fight with If He Went to War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 27 January 1905 · page 2

The United States has just adopted for use in the army and navy a [?] of greater rapidity of [?] any gun of the same calibra and [?]…

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War News. London, January 24

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 2

The final proclamation issued by General Stoessel to the garrison of Port Arthur, said:—"Further resistance would be merely daily murder. A commander must be brave enough to surrender."…

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The War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1905 · page 2

The Mukden correspondent of the German newspaper “Lokalanzeiger” reports that a general engagement continues between the Russian and…

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War News. London, January 27

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 February 1905 · page 2

A fifth Japanese army it organising General Kamimura is in command. Reuter's correspondent with the headquarters of General Kuroki's army in Manchuria reports that…

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