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The wars & local soldiers, 1887

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War Imminent

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1887 · page 4

THE situation in Europe becomes more and more alarming every hour. Russia still shows a determination to pursue her policy of dictation and autocratic…

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War Prospects. London, 4th February

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 February 1887 · page 6

Rumors of the imminence of war continue to be circulated in England and on the continent, where an anxious and all absorbing interest is being taken in the utterances and…

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The War Cloud in Europe. London, 5th March

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1887 · page 6

THE situation in Europe continues in an extremely unsettled condition, and rumors of war in the spring are daily circulated by the leading newspapers in the various capitals…

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The War Strength of Europe

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1887 · page 4

THE following table, copied from the Daily News shows, first, the number of men held in permanent readiness for war; and, second, the number of men that could be called under the…

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A Great War Correspondent Reported Dying

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 1 November 1887 · page 3

THE career of Archibald Forbes, the famous wnr correspondent, is (says a telegram in the Chicago Tribune, dated New York, 23rd August) near at an end. He was to arrive…

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THE Magga Magga Advertiser. This is true liberty, when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, mayspeak free." Milton. Tuesday, November 8, 1887. the Fiscal War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 8 November 1887 · page 2

IN another column appears a letter by Mr. Nicholas B. Downing, referring to some comments of ours upon his lecture in the Town Hall, and containing…

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