Modern Inventions Used in War
Could Wellington revisit the earth and sea the marvellous change which has taken place in the methods of warfare since the day when a round ball and a smooth-bore…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1905
162 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 9
Latest Cables. London, Tuesday. End of the War
Mr. Sato, a member of the suite, of Baron Komura, the Japanese plenipotentiary at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, announces that Japan has made fresh…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia’s Internal War
The strike at Libau, a Russian port on the Baltic, has paralysed the railway traffic. Piles of dead and wounded are lying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Returned Soldiers' pay
The Privy Council have reversed the decision of the Supreme Court of N.S.W. in connection with the rate of payment to soldiers who fought in South Africa, and in which Howarth was made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Citizen Soldiery
AT a meeting held at the Hotel Australia, Sydney, the other day, an endeavor was made to start a movement in favor of an Australian military system on the lines adopted in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers' Handkerchiefs
The cotton handkerchiefs provided for French soldiers have printed upon them a number of sanitary precepts to be observed on the march and during a campaign, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest Cables. London, Saturday. Russia’s Internal War
A Court-martial at Warsaw, Poland, sentenced Johann Rasprzak a well-known ex-editor and Socialist leader, to death for killing four police officers who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cables. London, Saturday. Russia’s Internal War
The Russian Government’s secret circular to Governors of provinces and Mayors of towns betrays the greatest distrust of the Zemstvos. The circular…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Caused by an Omission
A war between poland and sweden was caused by the omission of the word 'etoeters' in 1654. In that year a Polish nobleman become ob[?]ns to the laws of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stones As Weapons of War
It has been reported that on more than one occasion the Russians and Japanese have actually pelted each other with stones. The “Regiment” points…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germany’s African War
The Cape Government has been officially informed that Marengo, the rebel chief, captured the German camp at Jerusalem, between Warmbad and Scutt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Averted War
To-day, doubtlessly our Army cannay must—beat the Germans. Will this be the case in a few years? It may be doubted and in spite of this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Army’s Jam Soldier’s Coffee When Fighting
An interested listener when the War Stores Commission was sitting on the 26th of- July, to the Lord Chancellor’s Court was Viscount [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butcher’s Bill of WAR
Dr. Louis Elkind has an interesting: article in. the “ North American [?] His conclusions bear out view” on Losses The [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Turbines for Battleships [?] change Likely In Uncle [?] New Men-of-war
It has been believe that there would; be no radical changes in the plans for new triple screw battleships beyond yond that of making the armament…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Soldier’s Revenge
During the South African war the censorship of soldiers letters home was very strict One soldier, who always sent an account of the doings of the regiment which account was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“The One Thing Needful.” Tolstoys View of the War
A communication from Count Leo Tolstoy under the above heading occuties in translation six and a half columns of “The Times” of August 29…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WAR lNDEMNITY
The balance against Russia in favor of Japan on account of the maintenance of the prisoners of war amounts to fifty million yen (£10,000,000)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Basque Soldiers Used the First Bayonet
It is not generally known that the British bayonet, feared the world over, is not an English invention, but comes from France. It was one of those numerous instances of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Soldier’s Lot. Mr Forster’s Bright Picture a New Era
Mr Arnold-Forster, Secretary of State for War, who at Norwich laid the foundation stone of new cavalry barracks to be built there, was entertained at a…
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