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The wars & local soldiers, 1914

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The Etiquette of War. Rules and Regulations Contending Armies Must Obey

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 4

War—that is Warfare between civilised nations—has its code of etiquette, known as the Customs of War, some of which are written…

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Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Tuesday, February, 17, 1914. Internecine War

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 February 1914 · page 2

THE strike of the slaughtermen and carcase butchers in Sydney the holding up of the stock sales, and the consequent…

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"If War Came."

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 4

"You must either move on or move off!" This was the intimation conveyed to Turkey by the first shot in the Balkan war, and represented…

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Heroic Story. Black Soldiers Devotion. London, March 8

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 March 1914 · page 2

Advices from Nairobi, British East Africa convey a stirring narrative of heroism and pluck in connection with an incident that happened to the south-eastward of Lake…

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The War of the Lilliputians

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 March 1914 · page 3

This subject is said to be the most astounding achievement yet known in the realm of animated art, introducing, as it does, forty perfect midget, the giant…

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Irish Crisis. Statement by War Office

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 March 1914 · page 2

Tense excitement is manifested everywhere in the United Kingdom over the position of affairs in regard to Ulster and the Government's Home Rule proposals…

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The War in the Air

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 6

The aerial battle of the future is likely to be a brilliant affair. A. Frenchman who bears the very appropriate name of Guerre has…

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Fighting Battles with Tin Soldiers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 3

An engineer named Aaeson, of Copenhagen, has just patented an invention which he has called a "soldier-automaton," an automatic…

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Soldiers as "Paying Guests."

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 4

Every licensed victualler is, on demand made by the milltary. authorities, compelled to furnish board and lodging for any soldiers…

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Business of War

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 1

In course of the debate on the army estimates in the Reichstag on Monday night Herr Liebknecht declared that at least £2[?]000,000 was…

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German War Targets

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 6

Targets of various kinds mounted on trucks and drawn over the field by cables on electrically-driven drums give Gorman soldiers a very realistic…

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Ancient Relics. Soldiers Guarding Excavations

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 6

Excavations are being made by Italians on the Island of Rhodes. Seventy cases of ancient relies of great importance have been shipped to Rome…

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Bulgaria's War Bill

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 June 1914 · page 5

Professor Tsankoff, of the University of Sofia, has been trying to work out the cost of the Balkan wars to Bulgaria. The credits voted amounted to…

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War Scare. Braid-wood in Danger. Gallant Defence by Patriotic Citizens the Enemy Routed

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 June 1914 · page 2

It may net be generally known that the peace of our little town has been lately threatened. A few days ago word was received at a…

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The Engineers. Interesting Display. Wireless in War

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 5

War is now a science. Victory in the future will depend not only on the strongest and bravest soldiers, but upon the cleverness of the engineers…

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Woman's Career As a Soldier

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 July 1914 · page 3

"Albert Cashier," an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois, who had been masquerading as a man for sixty years, and who served as a soldier…

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Victoria's Poor Percentage of Efficient Soldiers

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 July 1914 · page 2

Out of 11,812 soldiers in all the fighting units in Victoria, only 5451 succeeded in qualifying in musketry during the last, financial year. This…

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Science Notes. Aircraft in War British Defences

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 July 1914 · page 5

A series of towers armed with quick firers for defence against attacks by aircraft are being erected around Portsmouth Harbour and elsewhers…

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War Declared. Attitude of the Powers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 July 1914 · page 3

The war storm looming over Europe for months past has burst at last. Austria has declared war on Servia, and the evidence that the…

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Astria Declares War. Attitude Op the Powers

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 28 July 1914 · page 2

The war storm looming over Europe for months past has burst at last. Austria has declared war on Servia. and the evidence that the…

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