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The wars & local soldiers, 1903

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Russia and Japan. Preparing for War. Great Russian Efforts. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 October 1903 · page 2

Russia continues to make great efforts to strengthen her position in the Far East. Two battleships, two cruisers, and eleven torpedo boats, together with…

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"The Walking Soldier."

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 October 1903 · page 2

Mr. A. H. Coppock, who it will be remembered passed through here a few weeks ago on a walk from Sydney to Melbourne, is again visiting Wagga…

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Cablegrams War Clouds. London

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 2

Preliminary arrangements have been completed for the expeditions summoning of portion for two years of the Russian infantry reserves…

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Japanese in Council. Reported Triumph of the War Party

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 October 1903 · page 2

The veteran statesmen and Ministers of Japan have conferred at Tokio, and discussed a proposal made by the Marquis [?] not to insist upon the Russian…

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The Far East Russia and Japan. a Blustering Utterance. Alexieff Favors War London, Oct. 26

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1903 · page 2

The "Novoe Krau," the Port Arthur organ of Admiral Alexieff, the viceroy of the Far East, publishes a blustering article on the situation. It declares that Russia is…

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Terrible Railway Accident. Fifteen Killed; Fifty Wounded. Amputations on the Spot. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 November 1903 · page 2

somee gravel cars at Indianopolis, United States, while running down an inclined siding, telescoped with a coach belonging to a passenger tram. The car…

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Gems of Literature. Horrors of War

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 3

THOUGH the whole race of man is doomed to dissolution, and we are all hastening to our long home; yet at each successive moment, life and death…

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South African War Medals and Clasps

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 November 1903 · page 2

Members of the undermentioned State and Imperial contingents raised in New South Wales who have not yet received their war medals and clasps for services…

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The Panama Question. America Supporting Panama. War-ships Hastening to the Isthmus. President Roosevelt's Advice. London, Nov 6

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 November 1903 · page 2

In connection with the action by the department of Panama in proclaiming its independence and imprisoning the Governor and the authorities, the Colombian military…

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After the War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 November 1903 · page 2

Some time age a board was appointed in Victoria to consider cases in which colonial soldiers killed in South Africa had left families or relatives having claims upon the…

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Colonials at the War Memorial in St. Paul's. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 12 November 1903 · page 1

As there is a balance in hand from the subscriptions raised to found a club for colonial troops in London, it has been decided to utilise it in the erection in St…

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"Mad Drunk ' With Cordite Terrible Habit of Soldiers in South Africa

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 14 November 1903 · page 3

The South African war and the wasting of life on the illimitable veldt are responsible for a new and extra form of intoxication…

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The War Death Roll

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 17 November 1903 · page 3

It Is estimated that 15,000 Bulgarians were killed in Macedonia during the last six months…

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Late Cables. Old World Doings. London, Sunday. the Fiscal War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 17 November 1903 · page 3

Mr. Balfour, Prime Minis for, had a tremendous reception at Bristol. The horses wore taken from his carriage, and the latter was dragged two miles. He…

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What Is Paid for War. the Outlay in Men and Money

The Junee Democrat · Wednesday 18 November 1903 · page 4

It is appalling to know that not far short of 700 million lives directly,and 14,000,000,000 indirectly, have been lost in the conflicts which have raged in the world. These…

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Man who Caused a War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1903 · page 6

Captain Anderson, of Penzance, has been commissioned to raise the Traveller, the Government tug which was sunk in the Hamoaze, at Devonport, by being carried…

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A Turkish Soldier

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1903 · page 6

It is said that the Turkiksh soldier has degenerated, but "Victoria A. Buxton," who writes to the "Times," does not agree. "One fact," she says, lies at the bottom of…

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Attempt to Wreck a Royal Train. Colonial Soldier's Crime. London, Nov. 23

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1903 · page 6

One of the French colonial soldiers patrolling the line on which King Viator Emmanuel was travelling through France to Italy was arrested for heaping stones on…

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Imperial Fiscal Issue. Stalking-horse to Cover War Blunders. London, Friday Afternoon

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 1 December 1903 · page 2

Mr. John Burns, M.P., speaking at Shrewsbury, said Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain were using fiscal reform as a stalking-horse to cover the blunders of…

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Will There Be War

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 3 December 1903 · page 2

There seems to be an increasing probability of war after all having to settle the dispute between the Russians and Japanese in respect of Manchuria…

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