Boys for the Australian Navy. Terms of Enlistment
The Commonwealth Naval Secretary states that the training ship Tingira will, by the beginning of April, have room for 100 boys, and by the beginning of June will…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1912
410 stories in Riverina's papers · page 3 of 21
The War in Brisbane Trams Running—strike Spreading. More Desertions of Work. Country Hotels Closed. Railway Works Held Up. Retail Employees Return. Theatres Without Orchestras. What Premier Denham Says. Workers Have Something "Up Their Sleeve." No Night Trains to Run. Brisbane
The Brisbane trams were running to-day. The A. W. Union is working bard all over the State to spread the strike with great success. Reports…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rioting in Belgium. Serious Encounters. Many Strikers Wounded. Paris
There has been serious rioting at Mons, a large coaling centre in Bergium, between the mob of strikers and the military. A large number of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Psychology of War
Have we been on the eve of war? We doubt If even the prime actors know. Our steady front In the face of aggression may have averted the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Hands Up" an Incident of the Boer War
The coffee was passed round, and, the Intelligence Officer, seeing an op-portunity in the recent outburst, crossed the room and Bat beside the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Boy Soldiers
Have you registered your sons under the Defence Act? If not do so at once. Lieut. Baker, district area officer, was in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War in Tripoli Three Italian Victories. Heavy Casualties. Home
The Italian troops repulsed three stubborn Dight attacks at Derna on the 10th inst. The Italians had three killed and twenty-two wounded, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pierre Loti on War. a Mockery of Civilisation
Pierre Loti, the famous French novelist, has an eloquent appeal for peace in the Parisian paper "Figaro." "The time has arrived," he says, "for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Germany's War Votes More Taxation Proposed. Berlin
In a Reichstag debate on the estimates, the secretary of the Treasury demanded that the new army and navy expenditure should be met with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Snakes As War Weapons
When Hannibal, the great Carthaginma, was fighting Eumenes of Pergamos with a fleet of very inferior strength he hit upon an artifee which would scarcely be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers and Cigarettes
Abstinance from cigarettes is the lesson for soldiers preached by Lieutenant General Sir William Knox, in the "National Defence." Two singular facts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shall We Breed War Dogs? a Chance for General Baden-powell
Mr. Robert Kaleski, the well-known cattle dog enthusiast, is arranging with the Cattle and Sheep Dog Club of Now South Wales to present a blue…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A War Story
The eagerness of Reservists to fight their country's battles Is amusingly illustrated in the case of a soldier landed at Southampton from the Klldonan Castle, which brought…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Impending War
The coal crisis in Great Britain, at time of writing, had reached a stage of intense acuteness, and that unhappy Capitalist-ridden land seems destined to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Fate of a War Balloon
During the siege of Paris in the France-German war no less than sixty-four balloons made their ascent from the capital. Out of theis number only two "came to grief." One…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Souvenirs or War. The Marechalo MacMahon
The marriage of Mme. de MacMahon, who died the other day, in Paris, was a made-up one. Her uncle was, in the early years of MacMahon's career in Algeria, his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Car in War
Captain M. G. Taylor, R.E., in delivering a lecture before the members of the Scottish A.C., at Glasgow, recently drew attention to the fact that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War on Paris Fashions
There is great jealousy between the tailors and dressmakers of New York and Chicago as to which city shall lead the fashion in America, and at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Norman Angell. a Brotherhood Speech. the Alleged Benefit of War
Curiosity to sec and hear the suddenly-famous author of "The Great Illusion" drew a crowded audience to the Grafton-square Brotherhood at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Give Us a War." German Newspapers Appeal to the Kaiser Will He Follow the Advice?
In a leading article about the Kaiser's 53rd birthday, which was celebrated last month with the customary enthusiasm throughout the Empire…
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