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The wars & local soldiers, 1904

235 stories in South Coast's papers · page 12 of 12

British Soldiers as They are Seen at Gibraltar

Southern Star · Saturday 12 November 1904 · page 6

THE outline of Gibraltar has been said to resemble a crunching lion. If you picture one with its paws stretched out over a conquered sea…

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War

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 15 November 1904 · page 2

The “dogs of war” are still at each other’s throats—and although the garrison at Port Arthur is reduced to day bread (and black at that) to eat, and half-filled bombs—to shoot,…

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A Fearful War Picture

Southern Star · Wednesday 16 November 1904 · page 4

A vivid picture, showing what war is like, has been given by a lieutenant to a Russian correspondent and appears in London "Daily News." The…

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The War

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 8

Reuter says that an attack[?] on Port Arthur from October[?] November the 3rd was the [?]unsuccessful yet delivered…

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War Predicted Between England and Russia

Southern Star · Wednesday 23 November 1904 · page 4

A sensation has been created in London by certain remarks concerning Anglo Russian relations, attributed to Sir Walter Lawrence, private…

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The War of the Future: No Killed

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 November 1904 · page 5

A medical officer of the Austrian Army has invented a humanitarian projectile in the form of a shell that on explosion distributes not fragments of…

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The War

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 5

A Chinese spy reports Chat the Russian troops at Port Arthur are dying of dysentry at a rate of 70 a day…

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Black and White in America. How to Avoid an Awful War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 December 1904 · page 6

In the “Nineteenth Century” Sir Harry Johnston, nil ling in “The White Man's Place in Africa,” suggests a scheme which he thinks will…

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The Piety of the Russian Soldier

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 5

It is difficult to recognise the stories Russian excesses with the known piety of Russian soldiers at all tunes. Does it mean that the stories are such…

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War

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 5

Between Saturday and Tuesday Japanese naval guns at Port A r that heavily bombarded the Harbours They repeatedly hit the Russian…

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What Russian Names Mean. a Guide to the War

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 2

So keen is the public interest in the Russo Japanese war, and so familiar have names of Russian towns and battleships and officers and Ministers become, that the…

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A War Picture

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 December 1904 · page 4

A Russian correspondent named Viazemsky d[?] the following painful pietare of the co[?] of the Manchurian natives :…

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The Story of the Blacks. Chapter Xvii. the War of Extermination in Van Dieman's Land

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 December 1904 · page 3

The story of the blacks in Van Dieman's Land (now Tasmania) is perhaps more full of horrors than that of any of the other colonies. Long before the occupancy of the…

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The Story of the Blacks. Chapter Xvii. the War of Extermination Van Dieman's Land. (Continued)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 21 December 1904 · page 12

"Among the more ancient females some had a gross and ignoble figure; others, much fewer in number, had a fierce and sombre look; but, in general, one noticed in…

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The Story of the Blacks. Chapter Xvii. the War of Extermination in Van Dieman's Land. (Continued)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 28 December 1904 · page 6

The attention of the authorities was divided shortly after this between bush-rangers and blacks, the former having established quite a reign of terror in Van…

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