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The wars & local soldiers, 1914

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The Mexican War Juarez

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 2

Field guns before Tampico are doing tremendous damage. Americans aboard the warships and other foreigners have scattered oil…

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The Mexican War Little Hope of Settlement. Washington

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 2

Mexican delegates to the Mediation Conference have left Mexico City for Niagara Falls. It appears that scant hopes of a…

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The War Tax. Collection From Foreigners. Nations' Protest. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 4

The Governments of Russia, Holland, Belgium, and France have forwarded a protest against the payment of the German war tax by persons of…

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The Mexican War Prospects of Settlement. Mexican Delegates at Conference. Given Discretionary Power. Vera Cruz

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1914 · page 2

There are hopes that the Mexican difficulty with the United States may he settled shortly. Senhor, Rabas, Colonel Rodriguez, and Senhor…

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War Preparations Inspector of Overseas Forces' Speech

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1914 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.—Sir Ian Hamilton, speaking at Auckland, said that the extraordinary war preparation in Australia were…

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The Mexican War Huerta's Downfall Expected. by Revolution Assassination or Defeat. Vera Cruz

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1914 · page 2

The "Times" correspondent with the United States fleet, recently visited Mexico City and was captured as a spy, but was afterwards liberated. He…

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Assassin Lynched. Soldiers Avenge Officer's Death. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1914 · page 2

A Reservist, and a supposed antimilitarist, stabbed Major Coprna to death outside the barracks at Covillia. The soldiers attacked the prison…

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What War Means

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 7

What shall we say of the Balkan atrocities? (asks Professor Starr Jordan). Are they in fact unheard of, "Inoul," as affirmed by the Congress at The Hague, or are they just part…

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Domestic Drama Wife and Her Mother Wounded. Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 2

The Brisbane police have received information from Cairns to the effect that a man named Marisona is alleged to have cut his wife's throat and also…

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The Mexican War Huerta Leafing. American Soldier's Death. Murdered and Burnt. Washington

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 2

Mr. O'Shaughnessy, the United States representative who recently left Mexico City, reports that Huerta is preparing to leave the capital with…

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The Eternal Mule. Value in War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 2

The long-eared beast of many burdens—the burden of undeserved contempt being one of them—is lesing none of his prestige because of the coming of the motor-truck…

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"Australian Cataclysm." Reparation for War. Mr. Beale's Suggestion. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 2

Mr. O. C. Beale has issued a warning that sooner or later Australia would be involved in a cataclysm and that the Government should be…

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Restless Balkans Another War Likely. Powers' Interference Resented. Sofia

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 2

A sensation has been caused by the publication of Mr. Savoff's telegrams from Adrianople, dated May 6, 1913, to the Premier forecasting a second…

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The Mexican Trouble. Shot Insane Soldier. LONDON

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 5

Mr. O'Shaughnessy, the United States representative, who recently left the Mexican City, reports that Huerta was preparing to leave the…

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School Teacher Wounded. Stabbed with Scissors. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 4

Alice Lilly 56, school teacher, was found in her town-street, Paddington this afternoon with a gash in her left b[?]een and another on her…

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Paddington Sensation. Woman Found Seriously Wounded. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 5

Alice Reilly aged 56 a school teacher, was found at her home in Brown-street, Paddington, this afternoon unconscious, and blood pouring…

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War and Peace

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 4

A city our nation which ohic[?]s to any form of taxation unless it be for the purpose of defence, paints, a nightmarish picture of what may happen to…

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Australia's War Preparations Pacific Meeting Ground of Asiatics and Europeans. General Hamilton's Forecast. Auckland

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 5

General Sir Ian Hamilton, at civic reception on Wednesday afternoon, said that the extraordinary war preparations in Australia were due to…

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The Mexican War Huerta Surrounded. the Capture of Tampico. No Quarter on Either Side. Vera Cruz

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 4

In the final attack on Tampico, General Villa-pushed his infantry forward, under cover of his 6-inch guns, and entered the streets of the city,…

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The Mexican War a Soldiers Fate. American Ultimatum to Huerta. Supposed Execution and Burning

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 May 1914 · page 2

The United States Government has demanded from Huerta and explanation as to the fate of Parks. The Government declares that if the…

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