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The wars & local soldiers, 1870

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News by the Mail. the War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 24 December 1870 · page 3

WE take the following from the Sydney telegrams:— Everybody is surprised at the number of men surrendered which would have made…

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Munitions of War. (From Chambers's Journal.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 24 December 1870 · page 4

THE practice of throwing burning compositions to fire the buildings, shipping, or warlike engines of an enemy, is of course as old as the art of war itself…

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Incidents of the War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 28 December 1870 · page 2

THE semi-official North German Correspondent contains the following startling paragraph:— "The necessity and justice of making the…

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Mark Twain's War Map

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 31 December 1870 · page 4

MARK TWAIN publishes in the Buffalo Express his first war map. His explanation is better than the map. Here it is:—…

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Mr. Carlyle on the War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 31 December 1870 · page 3

A letter from Mr. Thomas Carlyle is published in a German paper. It says:—"So far as my reading goes there never was such a war, never such a collapse of shameless…

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The Irish Press on the War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 31 December 1870 · page 4

THE heart of Ireland still beats in warmest sympathy with France. Every phase of the war is anxiously watched, and the slightest success, or any…

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The War. [From Our Files.] Russia Reported Aggressive

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 31 December 1870 · page 2

LONDON, November 13th.—A World correspondent says: The Russian Minister here has read to Lord Granville a letter from Prince Gortschakoff, stating that Russia now…

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