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The wars & local soldiers, 1913

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The War of Classes

The Worker · Thursday 2 October 1913 · page 19

The class war rages with intense bitterness in America. Passionate feelings were aroused during the great silk strike at Paterson…

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Albania War. March on Monastir. Severe Fighting. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 October 1913 · page 2

The Albanian forces have reached Monastir, where severe fighting is proceeding…

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Woman's War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 October 1913 · page 7

Elisabeth Robins appears in "M'Clure'" as an extreme supporter of the tactics of the "Militants'. she recounts the whole miserable history of the past seven…

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War on the House Fly

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 October 1913 · page 3

The common house flies that will soon be crawling on every window-pane are among death's most deadly agents, and they should be exterminated…

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England's Political War London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 7 October 1913 · page 2

After a trace of two months the political war in Great Britain commences on Wednesday. There will be an unusually early meeting of the Cabinet…

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Italy's Excuse for Turkish War

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 10 October 1913 · page 4

Italy is hunting up excuses for pursuing the war over Tripoli. Professor Robert Michels, of Turin, has collected and published a complete list of them…

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Deaths of Greek Poets in the War

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 October 1913 · page 1

The Balkan war has taken a heavy toll of modern Greek poets. "They have not only their songs but their lives to the cause" (writes M…

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The Servian War. Machine Guns Used. London

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 10 October 1913 · page 4

Six thousand Albanians recrossed the frontier, but were defeated by the Servians, with a loss of three thousand men. The Servians used…

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Germany's New War Ship. Bigger Than the Dread Nought. New Ship Secretly Begun

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 10 October 1913 · page 6

The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" telegraphed early in January that the first of the German Dreadnoughts has been building for…

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Love and a Revolver Wounded Girl's Silence. Judge's Recommendation. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 October 1913 · page 2

David Roger Fulton was charged at the Sessions to-day with maliciously wounding Elsie Victor Wellington, with intent to do grievous bodily…

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Days of the Bushrangers. Ned Kelly Wounded and Captured. Dan Kelly, Hart, and Byrne Dead

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 October 1913 · page 1

The Kelly gang stuck up a watch party of four police at six o'clock on Saturday night, seven miles from Beechworth. The gang handcuffed a…

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Days of the Bushranger [?] Ned Kelly Wounded and Captured. (Continued.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 October 1913 · page 7

In the me[?]une the [?]lege continued at the hotel. Thirty men, all prisoners, sallied forth at about 10 o'clock out of the front door holding…

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Canada and Austrians Emigration Officials Arrested. War Minister's Report. "Attack Upon Army." Vienna

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 October 1913 · page 2

Nine officers of the Austrian branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company have ben arrested on charges of inducing persons, table for…

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Enlist or Starve

The Worker · Thursday 23 October 1913 · page 13

LORD ROBERTS, in a recent "Nineteenth Century and After," in pursuance of his able efforts to rouse Britain to a realisation that if she wants to be safe she will…

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War on the House Fly

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 3

The common house flies that will soon be crawling on every window-pane are among death's most deadly agents, and they should be exterminated…

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Situation in Ireland. "Horrors of Civil War" Primate's Pessimistic View. Strike Leader's Trial. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1913 · page 4

The Primate of All Ireland, addressing the Armagh Diocesan Synod, said that owing to the exigencies of party warfare. Ireland was confronted with…

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To Stop War

The Worker · Thursday 30 October 1913 · page 19

There was a time when kings waged war on one another, and battles were fought for thrones. They rode at the head of their armies,…

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The War They Never Fought

The Worker · Thursday 30 October 1913 · page 24

The Millionaire went forth to fight in The War They Never Fought, The Broker and the Banker, each a place in the vanguard sought,…

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The Bulgarian War. Young Girls Violated

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 31 October 1913 · page 4

The Bulgarian troops at Arda found about a thousand Bulgarian women, children and men, who had been handed over by the Turks to…

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Industrial War Waterside Workers. Bluejackets Landed. Dangerous Socialists. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 October 1913 · page 2

In response to a request from magistrate at Wellington, a body of men from H.M.S Psyche, with rifles and fixed bayonets, paraded the wharf…

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