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The wars & local soldiers, 1911

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

The Cost of War. Appalling Figures

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 1

ACCORDING to a writer in the Quarterly Review, the loss to France by the Franco-Prussian war is circulated at 544,000,000 sterling, while the victor's…

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Cost of a German War Appalling Figures

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 7

According to a writer in the "Quarterly Review," the loss to France by the France-Prussian War is circulated at 544,000,000 sterling, while the victor's…

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War in the Air. Aeroplane V. Dirigible. Difficulty of Destroying a Balioon

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 3

Mr W. F. Reid, lecturing on Tuesday at a meeting of the Aeronautical Society (said "Lloyd's News" on October 30) expressed the opinion that the…

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Soldier's Heart. Food and Clothes Reform

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 3

Mr. Haldane, Secretary for War, speaking at the Royal Army Medical School, Millbank, yesterday afternoon, in connection with the prize…

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Cost of a German War Appalling Figures

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 3

According to a writer in the “Quarterly Review,” the loss to Prance by the Franco-Prussian War is circulated at 544,000,000 sterling, while the victor’s…

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The Yerriyong Road. Cr. Shearer on the War Path the Report Doubted. the Clerk Indignant

The Nowra Leader · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 2

The Engineer submitted a repot of the expenditure and the condition of repair of the above road for the last four years, in answer to a request by…

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The Gril Soldier

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1911 · page 4

THE Chevaliers of St. George recently met in Moscow. In the gathering was a young lady, plainly dressed, bearing upon ber breast the military cross of…

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The War Cloud. in the Far East. London

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 27 February 1911 · page 6

EVERY indication that China will resist by force of arms the threatened occupation of three of her provinces by Russia is contained in Notes…

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Mutiny in Brazil. Two Hundred Killed and Wounded. Capital Shelved

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1911 · page 6

Another mutiny has been suppressed at Rio de Janeiro by the firm action of the Brazilian Government, but while it lasted there was desperate fighting…

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A British Soldier in the Soudan

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1911 · page 2

During the last Soudan War (writes an ex-soldier), I was one of tho Guards' Camel Corps up the Nile, and, before starting across the Bayuda desert, we…

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A British Soldier in the Soudan

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1911 · page 6

During the last Soudan War (writes an ex-soldier), I was one of the Guards’ Camel Corps up the Nile, and, before starting across the Bayuda desert, we…

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Current Topics. Anti-War

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 2

THE SUGGESTION OF AN ANGLO-AMERICAN arbitration treaty, recently urged by President Taft of…

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A British Soldier in India

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 7

An infantry regiment was stationed at P.—in India, at the same time as a certain battery of artillery was quartered there, There was great rivalry between…

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A British Soldier in India

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1911 · page 3

An infantry regiment was stationed at P—, in India, at the same time as a certain battery of artillery was quartered there, There was great rivalry between…

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Soldier Sabbatarian. Prison in Preference to Work

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1911 · page 3

The Supreme Military Court has (says the Berlin correspondent of the "Daily News") sentenced a Seventh Day Adventist named Naumann to five years'…

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Welcome Home to Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth

The Bega Budget · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 4

The rural quietness and darkness of Holme Lacy village were banished for a while on one night recently by illuminations and…

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The Abolition of War. Mr. Andrew Carnegie's Gift

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 3

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who has already given £3,000,000 to the institute in Washington which bears his name, has added a further gift of…

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A Father's Ruse. an Incident in the Cuban War of Independence

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 6

It was in the days, not yet a score years gone by, when coast enchanting island, which columbus in his letters home described as "the most lovely land…

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Cans Were Long Buried. "Planted" During Civil War

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1911 · page 6

Charles Evans, of Cincinatti, accompanied by his daughter. is visiting old Jackson friends for the second time since 1867 . (wired the "Inter-Ocean"…

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Soldier's Adventure in India

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 7

Once during my service in India. I had the advantage of being stationed close to the sea. One evening after a roasting hot day, a party of us strolled to the seashore…

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