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The wars & local soldiers, 1871

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The European War! Will Russia Interfere!

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1871 · page 4

The Eastern question looms up anew man important telegram from St Petersburg announcing that the newspapers of that city are…

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The European War! Number and Disposition Op the French Forces

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1871 · page 3

LONDON, November 9th. — The correspondent of the World, writing from Versailles on the 7th Nov, gives the following comprehensive review of the present situation and…

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Thoughts About the War

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1871 · page 4

The Bishop of Orleans, M. Dupanloup, writes to a friend on the crisis in France c —" A month ago I expressed my horror ot war, and also, alas! my confidence in the…

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The European War! Diary Op a Besieged Correspondent of the Daily News."

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1871 · page 4

PARIS, Wednesday, October 19.— Each person now receives 100 grammes of meat per diem, the system of distribution being that…

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The European War! Late Telegrams

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1871 · page 3

The following telegrams were received at Galle on 27th December. The French official journal announces that the conference takes place at London…

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British War Ships and Fortifications

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1871 · page 4

DURING the year 1870 there were built, or ordered to be built, for the British Navy, fifteen ironclad men-of-war. Of these the Sultan, 12 guns, 5284 tons, 200 horse-power,…

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War Notes

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 4

The well-known wine merchant, W. Long, who, since leaving Paris, has resided Brussels, is about to start to Versilles to treat with the Prussian perfect of that town…

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Select Poetry. War

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 3

" The most pre[?]ions ton are ihoaa with which heaven bedows the unburled head of a soldier./—Ollrer floldimltli. The autumn wind had risen, and is sobbing o’er the plain…

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The European War! The Press on the War

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 4

“ BUT Paris does not include the whole military situation ; and beyond (the Daily News says) the charmed circle of the siege things look far Iess hopeful for France…

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The European War! Late• German News

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1871 · page 4

THE following extracts arc from a German paper, received by a gentleman in this town, ana kindly., translated by him for this journal:…

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The losses of the Germans In the War-German opinion Regarding Die new German Empire

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1871 · page 4

IF Count Bismarck's object in re-opening the Luxemburg Question (writeB a correspondent of the £aU Mall Gazette at Dresden) to revive the drooping spirits of…

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The War. The Fall of Lo[?]y

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1871 · page 4

LONGWY has just fallen after a short bombardment. The surrender of this fortress [?] a fact of not much importance so far as the conduct of the war is concerned. It is…

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The War

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 April 1871 · page 4

The Bombar[?]ent of Paris SEVEN o'clock am. on December 27 was the time names, and it had been arranged that at the same…

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Arrival of the Suez Mail at Adedaide. News to 21st March. Peace R[?] France and Prussia. Insurrection In Paris. Prussian Army March through Paris. French Assembly approves of teems of Prace. France to pay War Indemnity [?]200,000,000 sterling. France [?] Metz. Tho[?]velle, and Lo[?]nes. Eastern Question Settled Napoleon Deposed by the French Assembly. Marring of Princess Favourable. London, March 21st

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 3

THE Branch Mail Steamer has arrived at Adelaide, with the E[?]opean mail, bringing English and continental news up to the 21st March…

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The Cost of the [?]ance-Prussian War

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 22 April 1871 · page 3

A. CURIOUS calculation has been made by a Beigang wirer It is w[?] reading [?] as a curiosity among made [?] problem, but as a means of…

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The Twenty-three Battles of the War

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1871 · page 4

THE Kiel Gazette thus reviews the seven months campaign:—“In the present war 23 battles bare been fought, their order being — Weissenburg, Woorth, Spichern,…

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The War and the French Press

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1871 · page 4

Is a few hours the pub[?] will probably have fuller details of the dis[?]trons state of France. The mail will possibly make known to us also new facts which will throw…

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Fictions about the War

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 4

THE following extract from an article ic the Saturday Review (January 28) will show that the French newspapers have not monopolised all the powers of fiction which were…

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“Civil War.”

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1871 · page 2

THOUGH now in England or her colonies there is no sign, or slow of war, [?] civil war is [?] raging [?] War to the death, at not to the [?] and [?]…

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Select Poetry. in the Seven Months War

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1871 · page 4

SHOULD you have men say that when [?] went under In the [?] that a nor gone [?] When the German [?]are clove her [?] and the Seven Months war [?] over in thunder,…

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