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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1905

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Latest Cables. the War. London

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1905 · page 2

The Japanese have raised the Russian warship which was sunk at Port Arthur. The Russian newspapers are…

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Personalities. the Soldier Son

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 July 1905 · page 5

THE soldier son of the late Lord Salisbury, Lord Edward Cecil, now Under-Secretary of State for War in Egypt, is often spoken of as a possible…

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Returned Soldiers Pay

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 2

At the Returned Soldiers Pay Commission yesterday one man who had distinguished himself in South Africa deposed that when the were leaving…

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Latest Cables. the WAR.London

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 July 1905 · page 2

The Japanese found heavy undamaged guns in the Korsakovsk forts in Saghalien. Three thousand Russian troops, after…

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Latest Cables. the War. London

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1905 · page 2

Japanese warships are reported off Nikolaevsk, at the mouth of the Amur River, Siberia…

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Latest Cables. the War. London

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 2

There are persistent Russian reports that the Japanese are executing a turning movement in Mongolia, 80 miles from the frontier…

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The Chef. Enlistment Puzzles

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 5

Edgar Wallace writes in the “London Daily Mail” :— “The thing about the Army the [?] the most curious,” said the informing…

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Latest Cables the War. London

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1905 · page 2

Admiral Kataoku reports that after the Japanese captured the lighthouse at Decastri the squadron silenced at battery of Russian artillery and…

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Ex-soldiers Sad Story 206 Miles on a Goods Train

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 August 1905 · page 4

Walter Gardner, 20 butcher, was charged at Actor, with travelling ok the Great Western railway, from New Milford to Acton, without paying his fare…

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Employing Soldiers

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 August 1905 · page 4

The following contribution by Mr Edgar Wallace to the London “Daily Mail” conveys a lesson worth nothing:— “It’s only nacberal” said Smithy that…

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Latest Cables. the War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1905 · page 2

Japan has o ordered in America 350 steel bridges, 150 locomotives, and 2000 steel cars, stipulating for the quickest possible delivery. They are intended…

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Strikers and Soldiers

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1905 · page 2

Strikers at Novgorod Steversk tried to prevent the starting of the mail train. After a Cossack had been killed by…

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Japan After the War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 11 August 1905 · page 3

An Englishman like myself, who has lived many years in Japan, returning at the present time to his native country, must enjoy many…

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Germany’s Black War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1905 · page 2

The Hereros ambushed a German convoy of 240 men, 30 miles south-east of in. the German colony in Southwest west Africa.”…

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Latest Cables the War London

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1905 · page 2

Reuter’s correspondent at Portsmouth new Hampshire, where the [?] Conference is meeting reports that M. Wittee the senior Russian…

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A Soldier’s Wife. Japanese Corporal’s Letter

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 August 1905 · page 5

The following extract from a letter written to his wife by a Japanese soldier will give a good idea of the Spartan sentiments that animate…

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The War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 22 August 1905 · page 2

All the papers report that Thursday’s session of the Peace Conference at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was a stormy one, with evidence of embittered…

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Chapter Iii. in Love and War

The Age · Friday 25 August 1905 · page 4

Now, as both the adventures were to start out on Monday, and as this was Saturday it is plain that there was no time to waste…

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Peace or War ?

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1905 · page 2

Mr. J. W. Smalley, the New York correspondent of the “Times,” says that if Russia continues the war; American confidence and esteem will be forfeited…

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War Medals Won by Women

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 4

A Woman is so prominently before the public, in the person of christina, Queen Regent of Spain in connection with the American-Spanish War that it is interesting…

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