Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← The wars & local soldiers, all years

Riverina · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1906

162 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 9

Policeman Killed. Four Wounded. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 27 September 1906 · page 2

A company of negrous in ambush attacked a posse of police, killing one officer and wounding four out of ten officers, The rest retaliated by killing…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wireless War. the New Style

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 4

On board H.M.S. Euryalus on 28th June Mr William Maxwell wrote to the London "Daily Mail":-- I do not know whether Admiral…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

War Office Administration. a Condition of Chaos. London, Sept. 30

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 2

Mr. Haldane, Secretary for War, states that the state of chaos at the War Office is so vast that it will take a generation to get at the heart of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

War Preparations. LONDON

The Temora Star · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 2

According to Germania, the Ger man Reichstag will shortly be asked for a considerable increase in the number of field engineers and heavy…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Received at 1 A.M. Return of the Czar. Further Bomb Throwing. a Governor-general Wounded. London, Oct. 5

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 2

The Czar and family have returned to the palace at Peterhof. A bomb, thrown at Simbirsk, wounded General Storynkevitch, the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Russia. After the Harvest Peasants Called to Arms. a Revolutionary Appeal. Soldiers, Workers, and Peasants. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 2

Now that the Russian harvest has been garnered, the revolutionaries are appealing to the peasants to demand, with arms, the whole of the Russian…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Kronstadt Naval Mutineers. Soldiers Refuse to Shoot

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that that it is reported that the troops composing the Kronstadt garrison have intimated to the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Book Review "War of the Classes." Jack London at His Best

The Worker · Thursday 11 October 1906 · page 10

"War of the Classes," by Jack London, author of "The Sea-Wolf," "The Call of the Wild," etc. New York: The Macmillan Company (London: Macmillan…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

A Plucky Soldier. Gives His Life for Another

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 October 1906 · page 3

Captain Elles, a son of Major-General Elles, member of the Governor-General's Council of India, has been drowned at Rurki, in the North-Western province…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Marie Narelle. a Welcome Home

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 October 1906 · page 2

Marie Narelle came home when she came to Wagga Wagga claimed her yesterday, ana she claimed Wagga. Scarcely had she alighted from the train…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

War Stores Scandal. Officers Punished. London, Oct. 18

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 October 1906 · page 2

The Army Council hus announced its intentions in regard to the recommendations in the report of the War Store Commission which, under the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

An Army Scandal the War Stores Report. Offending Officers Punished. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 October 1906 · page 2

The Army Council yesterday announced its decisions in connection with the report of the Royal commission on war stores in South Africa…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Bezobrazoff. Favourite or the Tsar. the Man Who Made War

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 3

When the history of the Russo-Japanese war comes to be written it will be found to have been the work of the one man—M. Bezobrazoff…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

A Rogue's Ruse All Berlin Laughing. Soldiers Who Are Trained Not to Think. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 2

All Berlin is laughing at the Kopenick coup, as the result of which a thief dressed in an army captain's uniform, and in possession of a forged military order…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

New French War Minister

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 October 1906 · page 2

General Piequart, of Dreyfus fame, who has just taken office as Minister for War has ordered fifty sin[?]curits attached to the war office, to return to…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Russia. Latest News. Received Up to 2 a.m. a Governor Wounded London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 1 November 1906 · page 3

A serious disturbance took place at Izcroum, in Russian Transcaucasia. The Governor was wounded, and his house was pillaged. The troops who…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Shipping Freights War

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 6 November 1906 · page 2

The subsidised Hamburg-American American line of steamers visiting the Persian Gulf are charging freights one[?] below those of their British rivals…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Cost of War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 2

The Russian Treasury has disbursed 137 million sterling towards the cost of the war in the Far East, leaving 18 millions unpaid…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Cost of the War

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 November 1906 · page 2

The Russia newspaper "Novoe Vremva" states that the Treasury has disbursed £157,000,000 in connection with the payment of £175,000,000, the cost…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Soldiers and Political Organisation

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1906 · page 2

The Czar has issued an order for bidding soldiers to join political associations or agitations. Commanders who tolerate the contravention of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →