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The wars & local soldiers, 1910

27 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

Megrims. Sydney, Monday. SOLDIERING

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

An imaginary invading force at the field manoeuvres in the vicinity of Liverpool was repulsed…

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War Rations. a Peace Test

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 3

The entire camp at Tldworth is lost in admiration of the pluck and doggedness of the little band of "hunger-marchers" drawn from the 1st Loyal…

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The New War Party. Dangerous Proposals

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 3

"These are days of political [?]turvydom, in which former classifications have little meaning," writes the "Spectator" in an article called "The…

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War Risks

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 2

Then there was the "Claverdale," a well-found, new steamer of four thousand tons, and at the time of her loss on her maiden voyage. During the…

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Heroine of the Telegraph a Story of the Franco-German War

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 26 January 1910 · page 10

The Paris correspondent of the "Times" announces the death, at Clarens, in Switzerland, of Mile, Juliette Doder, who risked being…

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War Risks

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 6

Then there was the “Cloverdale,” a well-found, new steamer of four thousand tens, and at the time of her loss on her maiden voyage. During the…

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Old Soldiers. Great Number Unemployed

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 6

Four ex-soldiers, three of them unemployed, had (says "Lloyd's News") a most remarkable interview with Mr Haldane at the War Office on Saturday…

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War Scare. Germany's Financial Difficulties

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 2

The task of the new German Chancellor is likely to prove a very difficult one. The question of finance in Berlin, as in London, governs the situation, and…

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War Scare. Germany’s Financial Difficulties

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 6

The task of the new German Chancellor is likely to prove a very difficult one. The question of finance in Berlin, as in London, governs the situation, and…

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Balloons in War: Difficult to Destroy

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 16 April 1910 · page 8

The first tests in the United States of firing at balloons have been carried out at the Sandy Hook. A small 3-man captive balloon was anchored at a height of 300 feet and fired at…

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Sir George Reid on the War Race

The Bega Budget · Saturday 30 April 1910 · page 3

Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, speaking at the luncheon given by the Fairfield Engineering and…

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War in Eucadore

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1910 · page 4

Bega parathions for a [?] war are under way at [?] again a Peru [?] are [?] daily and are 24,000 troops [?] ten…

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Where Every Man 16 at War with His Neighbour

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 16 May 1910 · page 6

Our sketch represents a house in the Central Arfak Mountain. Dutch New Guinea. The old traditions of blood feuds are strong here, and every…

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War in the Air. French Aerial Fleet

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1910 · page 3

The news that the French Government is to receive two steerable balloons and three military aeroplanes as a gift from private generosity has come…

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How Napoleon's Marshals Died. A Romance of Great Soldiers

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 6

[A nation's history is made by its great men; and because that is true the lives of a nation's leaders represent the history of a nation. The story of…

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How Napoleon's Marshals Died. A Romance of Great Soldiers

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 6

FOR deep and pathetic interest, as examples of the calm courage with which really brave men are able to meet death, and to treat the great destroyer as a…

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Wanted —Soldiers!

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 July 1910 · page 8

THE supply not being equal to the demand, Australia is compelled to resort to compulsory enrollment of her subjects to twin them for their own…

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Labor the Great Arbiter. Workers Could Decide for Peace or War

The Nowra Leader · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 8

Professor Bevan, speaking at the annual dinner of the South Australian Commercial Travellers, said he regarded it as the gravest crime on the…

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Welcome-home to Mr. Robertson. Description of His Travels

The Nowra Leader · Friday 16 September 1910 · page 2

Speaking at the welcome home extended to him (Mr. Robertson) by the people he said he was impressed with his reception and was pleased at seeing…

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Vanishing War Horses

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 3

Horses of the type required for military purposes are not bred now to any extent, and in any case the best of them are snapped up by the agents of Foreign…

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