Chapter Xviii. War at Our Doors
By this time all Australia was aflame with the war feeling. In every city, every town and hamlet, in the Commonwealth, there was a rallying to the standard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1911
60 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 3
Submarine in War. Important Experiments by the Admiralty
Important experiments with the object of ascertaining accurately the effect of gun-fire on submarines under war conditions, and the risks to which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Please, Sir, I've Come to Enlist."
PLEASE, sir, I've come to enlist." It was a little girl who spoke, and she looked the picture of misery as she stood sobbing at the door of an area office in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cost of a German War Appalling Figures
According to a writer in the "Quarterly Review," the lose to France by the Franco-Prussian War is circulated at 544,000,000 sterling, while the victor's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chapter Xxii. the War—here and at Home
How could Brisbane possibly raise five millions to buy off the invader? That was the cry of all who heard of the terrible demand that had been made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Airships in War
We must reckon with the fact that in favourable weather the dirigible soon will, if it cannot already, outstrip the fastest warship afloat. So…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A British Soldier's Adventure in India
The scene was at Muree, a hill Sanatorium situated on a spur of the Himalayas ; of the dramatis personae men of all branches of the Service…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Royal Bride. Margaret of Connaught. a Soldier's Daughter
The daughter of a soldier who is anything but a carpet-knight, the granddaughter of the "Red Prince" Karl, who is known as one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Too Slow for a Soldier
In a room on the top floor of a large factory a boy was amusing himself by going through the bayonet exercise with a long-handled brush in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chapter Xxviii. the War in England Moves to a Sudden Conclusion
England was distressed, but never subdued, by the presence of nearly 400,000 German troops upon its territory. As the narrative in previous chapters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reminiscence of the American Civil War
We are indebted to the Miller correspondent of the "Mt. Vernon Chieftain" for this war story: "How cruel and unnecessary was the war of 1861 ti 1865. We were and are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Aeroplane in War
In "La France Automobile at Arienne" appears a brief interview with Lieutenant Sido, a French army officer, on the subject of the efficiency of the aeroplane…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A South African Fight. Cavalry in the Boer War
In the action of the Zand River in May, 1900, during the Boer War, when I ordered a brigade which had been dismounted and were being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Every Soldier to Learn Cobbling the New Boot
The Government of the United States will shortly inaugurate an improvement in its army boot, which it is thought will be of great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A British Soldier in the Soudan
During the last Soudan War (writes an ex-soldier), I was one of the Guards' Camel Corps up the Nile, and, before starting across the Bayuda desert, we…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A British Soldier in India
An infantry regiment was stationed at P——, in India, at the same time as a certain battery of artillery was quartered there. There was great rivalry between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One Hour of War
Here is the story of an officer who was in the battle between Dalny and Port Arthur when the Japanese suddenly pounced upon the Russian flotilla:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Telegraphists. the Nerves of a Force. on Frontier Duty
Among factors (writes the " Daily Mail" of 6th May) in the success of an Indian frontier expedition such as that now being undertaken against…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spies in Time of Peace. War Secrets Never Safe From Prying Agents of Neighbours
Probably the United States is the only civilised nation which has no laws enabling its authorities to deal with spies, says an English paper…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First Flight From Shore to Ship. This Makes War Aeroplanes Practical
To Mr. Eugene Ely, an American, belongs the credit for the first attempt to fly from shore to a warship and alight thereon. Ely's Curtiss…
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