Blown to Pieces. Soldiers' Fatal Disregard of Regulations
The correspondent of the London "Daily News" wrote from Paris on Sunday, 3rd. November:— Yesterday, at Bourges, ten…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1908
56 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 3
A Tale of the Crimean War
A stirring incident of the Crimean war is described by Sir Daniel Lyons in his book. One day the Russians sent a message to the English…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Soldier's Bath. Penalty of the Parade. Bewildering Balderdash
Mingled amusement and indignation has been caused among the men of the 1st South Staffordshire Regiment at some extraordinary instructions in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Deadly Motor. a Woman Killed. Driver Attempts Suicide. Crowd Restrained by Soldiers
A fatal motor-car accident had an extraordinary sequel in the Riviera di Cheala yesterday (wrote the correspondent of the London “Daily…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trained Soldiers of Commerce
If the Germans are beating us In the world's markets we must get rid of many antiquated ideas. A nation which trains her soldiers of commerce and has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Wounded Heart. How It Was Sewn Up
An astounding surgical operation is reported by Professor Sultan in the "German Medical Weekly." The heart of a person who attempted suicide and fired a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wounded on the Battlefield
Doctors may err, as you know, even in the stillness of the sick root[?]. How much more, then, are they likely to make mistakes in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Color War
What may be called the color war has or social interest for Australia, and visibly touches the profoundes issues; but how tremendous are the interest at stake is even…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Marvels of Battle Airships. Will the Next War Be Fought in the Sky?
How long will it be before the British Army is provided with a fleet of reliable battle airships it is of course, impossible to say…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Story of the Russian-Japanese War
IT was during the last month of the seige of Port Arthur that the incidents here related happened. I was in the employ of a Russian officer as valet…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railways Built for War
There is something very sinister in the news, telegraphed from India the other day, that the Russians have at length completed the great steel and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Story of the Russian-Japanese War
I SLIPPED my knife down my sleeve i and dealt my brown foe a terrible blow over the heart. The knife did its work splendidly, for he fell without…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Japanese Boycott. War Rumours in the East
Passengers by the steamer Empire, which arrived in Sydney on Friday from the East, stated that Japan is in a deplorable condition as a result of the far-reaching boycott. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A British Soldier's Heroism
Perhaps the bravest deed ever performed by a British soldier since the park days of Delhi occurred in January, 1901, at Belfast, Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Theory and Practice in War. Some Examples
Peace manoeuvres are exceedingly misleading, because the moral factor is absent from them. Umpires, however skilful, must be content to give…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Short Story Contraband of War
Stamford, of the 3rd Dragoons, Sau[?]e, of the 90th Field Battery, and Wyllson, of the Rutlandshi[?]e Regiment, were seated on a grassy bank under a hedge. They had gone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Soldier of Fortune
Sir Harry MacLean, recently a prisoner in the hands of the famous brigand Raisuli, has had a most romantic career. He was formerly in the garrison at Gibraltar, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Soldier's Loot
IN the Chinese war of 1860 the English army had great success in looting the territory overrun. A private soldier after the taking of the Taku…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War on the Tiger
This month's "Pearson's Magazine" contains the most graphic description of a tigerhunt ever published. The hunt in this instance is not for the sake of sport, but for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Native Opinion on the War
A Hyderabad correspondent of the "Pioneer" forwards to that journal some samples of native opinion on the war in the Far East, which is so keenly followed…
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