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The wars & local soldiers, 1885

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The Fate of a French War Correspondent

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1885 · page 4

A TERRIBLE example has been made in Tonquin. One of the special correspondents attached to the expedition now in the field was Camille Farcy, well known as a brilliant…

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Reuter’s Telegrams. War in the [?] Warimminest [?]Ween Exland and [?] London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 March 1885 · page 2

NEWS [?] been [?] that [?] was bought between [?] and [?] After five hours’ [?]…

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The War Correspondents killed in the soudan

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 26 March 1885 · page 4

THE Standard, in an obituary notice of Mr. Cameron, its special correspondent, says that like most other special correspondents who have made a high mark, Mr. Cameron…

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Preparations for war

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 4 April 1885 · page 3

An extraordinary Gazette (says the Melbourne Age) was issued by the Government on Saturday, containing a proclamation by the Governor forbidding any…

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A Soldier Killed by a Sentry

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 9 April 1885 · page 4

AT about 3 o'clock on the morning of February 8 an alarm was raised to the effect that Private Botham, one of the sentries on guard duty at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich,…

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The New South Wales Wounded

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 11 April 1885 · page 3

We have been favoured with the following [?] received from the Agur[?] General by the Acing Colonial Secretary : —‘London, April 2. General Gr[?]…

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War in Af[?]nistan. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1885 · page 2

THE Ross[?] Gen[?] Ro[?] attacked the Afghan the [?] March the banks of teh [?] [?] miles from H[?] The A[?]…

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[?] war Cr[?]rs of the No[?] Australian [?] Melbourne

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 2

Captain C[?] reports that [?] the [?] South Australian [?] at half [?] 12th instant, when [?] C[?]…

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Reuter’s Telegrams. War News. Prospects of a [?] SETTLEMENT

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 April 1885 · page 2

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War Independency. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1885 · page 2

THE British [?] again [?] despatch to the [?]Cabinet demanding or[?] at General [?] The [?] of affairs because [?]…

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Reuter’s Telegrams. Latest War News. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 29 April 1885 · page 2

No[?] of [?] to negotiate [?] Five [?] [?] annual [?]…

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The Rev. Jas. Jefferis on War. the Government Impebched

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 30 April 1885 · page 4

To a large congregation in the Pitt-street Congregational Church last trailing, the Rev. Jas. Jefferis delivered a remarkable sermon on "War." He made a special reference to the…

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The War

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1885 · page 3

The signal's hoisted; The cannons rear; The Gatlings rattle, And sweep the shore…

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From the Seat of War

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1885 · page 4

Hearing that the leading papers were sending reporters to the seat of war, we sent one ourselves some mouths ago. We append his first report—…

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The Spear as a Weapon of War

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 21 May 1885 · page 4

THE spear and its history is coeval with man, even since the days of our cavedwelling ancestors and their burned-tipped sticks. Its varieties are almost innumerable…

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Original Poetry impromptu welcome home to our troops (Preh[?]de)

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 2

Over the waves over the foam The gold shin Arab bounds Along; Our soldiers talk of happy homes; They crowd the deck, they closer come,…

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The Two Strangers. a Story of Marseilles. I.— the Young Soldier

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 2 July 1885 · page 1

IT was a rough winter's night. A slight soulwester has been blowing all day long; but since the sun had gone down, and it had grown dark, heavy gusts fled boisterously up…

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Special War Mems

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1885 · page 2

With our usual promptitude, we despatched a special correspondent to the scene of the engagement between the Afghans and Russians. We do not know whether our selection of a…

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Some Brave Soldiers

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1885 · page 2

At Balaklava, in the magnificent mad ride immortalised by the Poet Laureate, an incident occurred which shows how heroic one comrade can be in the defence of another…

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The Horrors of War

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1885 · page 2

The private in the 19th Hussars whose letters from Egypt are published in the new number of the Nineteenth Century gives some interesting information about General…

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