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The wars & local soldiers, 1870

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Newspaper War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 19 January 1870 · page 4

SOME fun in South Australia. Two newspapers there—the Register and the Advertiser—have been advertising and registering their own circulation…

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The New Zealand War. Capture of a Friendly Pa by Te Kooti.—one Hundred and Fifty Natives Taken Prisoners.—reported Massacre of Thirty. — William Marsh's Son Tomahawked

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 13 April 1870 · page 4

FROM the Daily Southern. Cross to the 21st ultimo we take the following important details of the last exploit of Te Kooti and his followers. The correspondent of the…

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Arrival of the English Mail. Actual War Between France and Prussia

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1870 · page 2

[Owing to some unexplained cause our usual telegram of European news was not forwarded to us on the arrival of the mail steamer. We perceive that many other newspapers in the interior were similarly…

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The Declaration of War. (From the Times, July 16.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 4

THE greatest national crime that we have had the pain of recording in these columns since the days of the First French Empire has been consummated…

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The Theatre of War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 4

THE item of telegraphic news that predominates in interest over all others is that which apprises us of the commencement of hostilities between France and Germany. Of course…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. News of the War. Herald Office, Sydney, Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2.30 p.m

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 21 September 1870 · page 2

FIVE days later news by Californian Mail:— The Prussians everywhere victorious. They have recaptured Saarbruck,…

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Later From the Seat of War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 24 September 1870 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter

The Prussians, as they advance, discover the losses of the French in front of the battle are frightful, exceeding even the most extravagant estimates. Lafrene, editor of the 'Soir,' who has just arrived…

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War News. Astounding Events. Prussia Everywhere Victorious

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 24 September 1870 · page 2

[A portion of the following was issued as an Extra-ordinary on Tuesday.] The California Mail has arrived. Paris is in a state of siege in consequence…

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The European War. the Topography of the Seat of War. (From the S. M. Herald.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 28 September 1870 · page 4

WE have compiled the following description of the various fortified and occupied places at the seat of war, as a guide to the news that has already…

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The War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 1 October 1870 · page 2

Our English papers arrived on Thursday afternoon. We make the following extracts, which will be found a tolerably full history of the war up to the latest dates:—…

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The Theatre of War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 October 1870 · page 4

THE following description of the present theatre of the war between Prassia and France may be of interest to our readers. The two provinces of France that have been…

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Mr. Gladstone on the War. (From the European Mail)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 1 October 1870 · page 4

THE banquet to Her Majesty's Ministers annually given by the Lord Mayor took place on July 30, at the Mansion-house. The speech-making was of an unusually…

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Latest War Telegrams. (From Sydney Punch.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 5 October 1870 · page 3

THE war is going on somehow. The Emperor Napoleon has paid a visit to Nancy, who is not very well. The Prince Imperial has been baptised…

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The War. We make the following further extracts of war news from the Times and the letters of its correspondents:— England's Position

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 5 October 1870 · page 4

The privilege of directing the power and influence of England is in these days no sinecure. It is not easy, said Mr. Gladstone at the Mansion…

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The Cause of the War. (From the Spectator.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 8 October 1870 · page 4

THE recent Plebiscite, which re-established the throne of the Napoleons, revealed to the Emperor the weak point of his position. France was…

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The Cost of War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 12 October 1870 · page 4

The details of the sacrifice of human life in war daring the last 20 years are calculated to startle those who have not paid ranch attention to the…

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The War. the German Rhine

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 12 October 1870 · page 4

AT the present moment there is a revived interest in Nikolaus Becker's German Rhine and the reply to it by Alfred de Musset, and the following…

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The French Prisoners of War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 12 October 1870 · page 4

DR. RUSSELL writes:—One hundred French officers have just passed on foot to the railway station. Cavalry (three huge heavy dragoons) Zouaves,…

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The War by Sea. (From the Times.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 12 October 1870 · page 4

IT is, indeed, only too natural that France should hope to reap signal advantages from her decided naval superiority. The improvement…

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