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The wars & local soldiers, 1883

5 stories in Riverina's papers

The Coming War. (From Vanity Fair, December 30.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1883 · page 4

We have already said in those Columns that the only Europeans who over have definite knowledge of the future course of political events are the…

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A New War Ship

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1883 · page 4

AT no former period has there been so much activity in the shipbuilding department at Chatham Dockyard at this season of the year as may be now…

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News of the Week. Impending War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1883 · page 2

AN English telegram, dated Wednesday last, states that a rupture has taken has place between the French and English Governments in reference to Madagascar. Mr. Gladstone, in the…

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War

The Hillston News · Saturday 14 July 1883 · page 2

IN watching the apparently mysterious actions that were occasionally occurring between England and France it was…

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Coal As a Factor in War. (From the Spectator.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1883 · page 1

It is not too much to say that the higher strategy of modern naval warfare must be based on coal supply, and that the sharp limitations under…

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