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The wars & local soldiers, 1911

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The Aims of Japan. War with U.S.A. Ridiculed. Vice-admiral's View. No Designs on New Caledonia. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 2

Vice-Admiral Shimamura, commanding the Japanese Squadron going to the Coronation review, interviewed at Colombo, characterised the…

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War in Morocco French Casualties. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 May 1911 · page 2

Official advices state that one French officer and twenty-seven men were killed, and one officer and six privates wounded in a fight near Fez…

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Sensational Air Race. Premier of France Seriously Injured. Minister for War Killed. Fall of Aeroplane. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 May 1911 · page 2

Twenty aviators started in a race from Paris to Madrid, which commenced to-day. Nine military officers also started, but they will withdraw…

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At the War Office

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 6

One clay a War Office official happened to be passing through one of his departments. There he saw a man standing before the fire reading…

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Sensational Incident. Ten Men Fall 2000 Feet. Skip Dashed Down Shaft. One Killed, Eight Wounded. Perth

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 3

An awful accident occurred at the Song of Gwalia mine, Leonora, this morning, one man being killed and eight seriously injured…

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Feather-bed Soldiers. How They Fared in South Africa

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 8

All the talk by the stay-at-home critics about "feather-bed" soldiers is just so much silly nonsense. I had lunch with the Duke of Teck…

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The Blue Dragoons. All Rights Reserved. an Indian Soldier Story. Part 10. Chapter Xvi. Narrow Escape

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 7

Lawrence remained motionless, for [?] felt that the time had come for [?] fierce resistance. He grasped his sword firmly, determined that if he…

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Selected by Readers. War

The Worker · Thursday 25 May 1911 · page 21

From hill to hill he harried me; He stalked me day and night; He neither knew nor hated me; Nor his nor mine the fight…

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Brothers-in-Law Quarrel. One Wounded. the Other Arrested. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 May 1911 · page 2

Frederick Trimmers, 22, a laborer, was conveyed to the Balmain hospital this morning with a bullet wound in the abdomen, just above the left…

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World's Peace. Great Speech by Sir Wilfrid Laurier. the End of War. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 May 1911 · page 2

At a dinner to-night in honor of the Colonial Premiers, in a historic account there waa unexpectedly plain speaking by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who…

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The End of War. Mr. Bryan and Anglo-american Treaty. New York

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1911 · page 2

At the conference on international arbitration to-day, Mr. Bryan led a general discussion by contending that the proposed Anglo-American Treaty…

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Aerial Soldiers. British Army to Have a Sky Battalion. 190 Experts

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1911 · page 3

A special Army Order was issued last night announcing the decision to organise an Air [?]n to which will be intrusted the duty of creating a body of expert [?]n, organised in…

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Mexican Insurrection. Resumption of War Ordered. Mexico City

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1911 · page 4

General Madero, the Mexican insurrectionary leader, has ordered the resumption of the war. It it rumored that President Diaz will…

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War in Morocco. Pretender Mortally Wounded. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 May 1911 · page 2

Morocco pretender was mor[?] wounded in the stomach in a [?]ght with the Sultan's troops…

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War in Morocco. French Protectorate Asked For. Fanatical Tribesmen. Tangier

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1911 · page 2

An Englishmen accompanying the Moors under Demerani, half-way to Fez from Rabat, writes that the rebels hem in the column, whose…

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War in Morocco. Tribesmen Active. Tangier

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 May 1911 · page 2

Captain Moreau has arrived at Mishrabassr with orders to undertake operations against the mountaineers, who are defying Elmerani's column…

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War Against Combines. Declaration Against U.S.A. Tobacco Trust. Washington

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 May 1911 · page 2

The United States Supreme. Court has declared the tobacco trust to be a combine in restraint of trade. The court also held that the trust…

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War of Millions How Great Capitalists Fight Steel Trust Revelations. Washington, May 28

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 May 1911 · page 4

The story of a battle for millions was told by Mr. John W. Gates, one of the directors of the United States Steel Corporation, before the…

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First Flight From Shore to Ship. This Makes War Aeroplanes Practical

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1911 · page 3

To Mr. Eugene ELy, an American, belongs the credit for the first attempt to fly from shore to a warship and alight thereon. Ely's Curtiss…

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The Debate. What the Dominions Want. Should Be Consulted by Home Government. Australia's Position in War Time

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1911 · page 4

Mr. Fisher said he attached the most importance to the first part of the resolution, dealing with the constitution. The dominions had…

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