Five Franc War. French View of Great Strike
"And it is from this enlightened country," said Bousfield, "from this country of progress, of fearlessness, and of initiative, that the war cry will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1909
40 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 2
Rolling Home. Soldiers From Malta
There is a quite unusual suggestion of activity in the grand harbor at Malta this glorious morning, and a commotion among all ranks and grades of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Love That Was Faithful. a Pathetic Little Story of the Crimean War
The Count de St. Croix, belonging to one of the noblest and wealthiest families in France, became engaged, after a long courtship, to a lady…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Veteran Soldier. Gone to His Rest. Field-marshal Sir F. Haines
On Friday night, at his chambers, 123 Pall-mall, passed away Field-Marshal Sir Frederick Paul Haines (says the London "Daily Telegraph" of June 14)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ex-soldier's Love Letters. Girl Awarded Damages
The courtship between Arthur Samuels, 29, a tramway clerk, and Mabel Bottoms, aged 30, lasted three and a half years, during which period…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All's Fair in War
"A tenderfoot once visited Tin Can," said a Westerner, "and watched with Interest the poker play. From saloon to saloon he passed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Family of Soldiers. Record of Nearly 250 Years' Service
The recent mention in our columns (says "Lloyd's Weekly News") of the late Mrs M. A. Colclough, whose father, husband, sons, and grandsons were all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Family of Soldiers. Record of Nearly 250 Years' Service
The recent mention in our columns (says "Lloyd's Weekly News") of the late Mrs M. A. Colclough, whose father, husband, sons, and grandsons were all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →National Cigarette War
Minnesota has now followed the lead of other States in a drastic attempt to legislate the cigarette out of existence. Since the beginning of this month…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rose Water War
A very charming method of making war, remarks a writer in "St. James's Budget," has been discovered by a Hungarian. He has invented a shell which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Chapters of War[?] Isand[?]wana
On the 22nd of January, 1879, there occurred the disaster to the 24th Regiment at Isand[?]wana. The British force consisted of six…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Spain's War. Melilla and the Riffs
It was In 1883 that I saw the Span; lards and the Riffs at war around Melilla. The dawn renders in the East every morning brilliant and full of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aerial Navigation. If War Should Come
It is, perhaps, not without significance that we should all of us been "sleeping quietly In our beds" when M. Bleriot swooped out of mid-air on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welcome Home
THE usual monthly meeting of the Q.W.L.L. was held at the Oddfollows' Hall on Thursday last. The formal business was dispensed with and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War of the Future
The war of the future will be ghastly enough, but it will not be waged with the barbarism of a hundred years ago; nor will the foreigners of to-day in our…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tale of the Crimean War
In Sir Evelyn Wood's "Reminiscences," a touching instance of courage and self-sacrifice is given. One June day in 1855 a detachment of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Canada and America. Impossibility of War
The "Toronto Globe," in an article dealing with the defence of Canada says:—The notion . that Canada is in need of defences along her 3000 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Modern War. Some of Its Exigencies
More than once in the "Daily Mail" during the past few weeks I have suggested that the British public have little knowledge of the exigencies of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Woman Soldier Way to Abolish War
I am always surprised, says a writer in the London "Truth," that the Suffragists listen so meekly to the stock argument of the anti-suffs, that women…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War
The cavalry rode in first. They might have been down from the clouds with the last drops of rain, so sudden was their appearance. The…
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