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The wars & local soldiers, 1911

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Special Cable News. Italian War. Constantinople

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 2

It is officially announced by the war Minister that the Turks have taken Derm, killing five hundred Italians and taking all the rest prisoners…

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Turko-italian War. Turks Victorious. Italian Disaster. CONSTANTINOPLE

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 3

It is officially announced here that the Turkish commander in Tripoli reports having re-occupied, on October 30, all the foris surronding Tripoli…

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War in Tripoli. Italy's Determination. "A Fight to a Finish" Protest From Turkey. Rome

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 2

The Italian Government is determined to carry the war to a finish with the utmost energy. Foreign attaches who inspected the…

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War in Tripoli. Reported Capture of Derna. an Italian Denial. Rome

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 November 1911 · page 2

The Italians deny that the Turks have re-taken Derna. The Italian brigade advanced from its position on the oasis and occupied Houndich fort…

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The Science of War. Teaching Australia's Future Officers. Work at the Duntroon Military College

The Worker · Thursday 9 November 1911 · page 23

On Saturday last, in response to an invitation issued by Senator Pearce, Minister for Defence, a party of Commonwealth legislators and pressmen…

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Blood Crazed Fiends. Atrocities by Italian Soldiers. Malta

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 November 1911 · page 2

The war correspondent, Mr. Francis M'Cullagh, states that parties of Italians with revolvers in hand marched literally drunk with blood, faces…

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Worse Than War

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 4

The numbers of those slain in the present South African war are insignificant will compared with the number of those who, since the war began, have died in great…

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Special Cable News. the War Reports

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 2

An Austrian merchant, writing to Vienna from Tripoli, declares that the Italians fed hungry Arabs, who then vilely betrayed them; that it…

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Woos and Wins. War Time Love

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 4

Mrs Anna M'Kee, a resident nurse, and Wesley Grant, a retired farmer of Randolph County, I11., sweethearts more than half a century ago (wired…

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Scenes of Horror. The War to Tripoli. Aeroplanes Used. ROME

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 4

THE Tripoli correspondent of the Turin "Stamps," referring to the massacre of Arabs, states that the Italian soldiers became inebriated with…

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War in Tripoli. Italian Reinforcements. Drive Enemy to Oasis. Malta

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 2

Directly Frugoni landed on Monday with 15,000 reinforcements he resolved upon a rally with a view to regaining the oasis. The Turks…

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Tripoli War. Shooting of Arabs. Italians Defended. Vienna

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1911 · page 5

An Austrian merchant, writing to Vienna from Tripoli, declares that the Italians fed hungry Arabs who returned their humanity by vile…

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Italians Helpless. Powers Must Intervene. Arabs Arming for War. Tripoli

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 November 1911 · page 2

The Italians cannot control the situation and the only hope of termination of the present struggle is in the intervention of the powers…

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Tripoli War. Continued Turkish Victories. Italian Army Surrounded. Reports of Atrocities Confirmed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 November 1911 · page 2

The Turkish Consul has received a cable to the effect that Turkish troops continue victorious in spite of the resistance at Tripoli, where the Italian…

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Horrors of War Fighting in Trifoli. What Refugees State. Malta

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 14 November 1911 · page 5

Tripolitan refugees arriving here are terrified at the horrors of the war and the ravages of cholera. They report that the fighting was desperate…

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Tripoli War. Desperate Fighting. Arabs Dogged Fanaticism. an All Day Battle. Malta

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 November 1911 · page 2

The Tripolitan refugees arriving at Malta are terrified at the horrors of war and the ravages made by the cholera. They report that the fighting on…

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At the Close of the War. a Vivid Picture

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 15 November 1911 · page 6

We had come to the end of May, when the eyes of the whole American continent turned towards Richmond. On the 31st Johnston assaulted the…

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Tripoli War. Turks Handicapped. by Cholera and Starvation. Tripoli

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 November 1911 · page 2

Deserters state that cholera is raging in the Turkish camp owing to lack of doctors. Ammunition is abundant, but there is a dearth of provisions…

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The Sufferings of War and Peace

The Worker · Thursday 16 November 1911 · page 16

Civilisation has no less a claim upon army commandants than upon people in general, and civilisation should require of war that the avoidable horror of…

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Tripoli War. Captured Arabs. "Generous" Treatment. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 November 1911 · page 2

The sentences passed on the captured Arabs in Tripoli vary from a few years to confinement for life…

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