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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1907

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War Disaster Echo. Saved by Burnaby

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 5

Nottingham Corporation has in its employ in a lowly capacity a man who was once a lieutenant. Mr William John Lee Baker, twenty years ago, was…

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Mr. Frederick Villiers. the War Artist

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 July 1907 · page 4

During the Russo-Turkish War, Mr. Frederick Villiers, the War Artist, met with a curious adventure. It was during the battle of the River…

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War and Warriors. Concerning Both. (From the German of Nietzsche,)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 3

We want no leniency from our best enemies, nor from those whom we greatly love Therefore, let me speak truth to you…

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War Against the Fly

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 4

It has already been demonstrated beyong question that the mosquito is solely responsible for the dissemination of malaria and yellow fever…

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A War Secretary. a Busy Man

The Age · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 4

The Secretary for War is the subject of a character-sketch in the May "Pall Mall Magazine." He will generally, we are told, be found absorbed in work at…

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The War with Cancer. Is Victory at Hand?

The Age · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 4

In consequence of some important work which has now been begun, and is being continued in Germany, the time has come when it seems right that…

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Gentleman on the War Path

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 August 1907 · page 2

Charles Lever and George Lever were before Mr. Donaldson, S.M., on Wednesday morning at the Sydney Water Police Court, charged with assaulting Margaret Lennox on…

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A Chinese War Junk. a Marine Relic

The Age · Tuesday 6 August 1907 · page 6

As strange a specimen of marine architecture as ever sailed the seven seas dropped anchor recently in San Francisco Harbor after a long and…

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Booth and Oyama. Soldier and Salvationist

The Age · Tuesday 6 August 1907 · page 5

When General Booth was in Tokio recently Field-Marshall Oyama was on the platform at the nobles' reception of the Salvation Army leader. Later,…

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The War with Cancer. Is Victory at Hand?

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 5

In consequence of some important Work which has how been begun, and being continued la Germany, the time has copied when if seems right that…

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Lancer's Escapade. Soldier Sent for Trial

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 August 1907 · page 3

Dressed in a silk-faced frock coat, with fashionable waistcoat, Bertie James Francis, who had several aliases, was charged at Aldershot police court…

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Another Book War

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 1

Old Gent: "Don't you think, my lad, that it would be better for you to be at home reading a good book than wasting your time in this fashion?"…

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A Submarine Wonder. the Latest Naval War-machine

The Age · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 4

When Jules Verne wrote his remarkable and strangely prophetic novel. "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," nobody supposed…

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Booth and Oyama. Soldier and Salvationist

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 5

When General Both was in Tokio recently Field-Marshall Oyama was on the platform at the nobles' reception of the Salvation army leader Later,…

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The Wine War. Scene Thereof

The Age · Tuesday 27 August 1907 · page 5

Owen J. Llewellyn writes as follows in the London "Daily Mall" of 25th June:— Hot is that Southern Provencal blood; alas…

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As in Real War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 30 August 1907 · page 3

There was a certain man who was a peace faddish. He liked to get hold of stories that reflected upon militarism Such stories, he declared, were…

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Bombarding War Kites. Shrapnel Firing Fails

The Age · Tuesday 3 September 1907 · page 6

Howitzer practice . with shrapnel shell at man-bearing kites took place on 26th June at Lydd. Three kites of the approved military pattern…

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France's War Airships. Plans for a Great Fleet

The Age · Tuesday 10 September 1907 · page 4

I hear (writes the Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" on 9th July) from a reliable source that the first five airships to be built on the lines…

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Bombarding War Kites. Shrapnel Firing Fails

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 13 September 1907 · page 4

Howitzer practice with shrapnel shell at man bearing kites took place on 26th June at Lydd. There kites of the approved, military pattern…

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A Wounded Titan. an Appreciation

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 3

To a large number of the new generation which reads with intelligence, or reads anything al all, the name of W. R. Henley conveys a somewhat…

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