Last of the Great Harry. Supposed 400-Year-old Warship
The hull of the Great Harry, the monster war vessel of Tudor days, which was launched in 1514, appears to have been brought to light at Woolwich…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →South Coast · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1914
357 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 18
War Canoe As Wool Carrier
'Times change and we with time" might be writ as a motto on what is surely one of the remarkable vessels of the world, and once the doughty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fireworks in War
They do not celebrate Guy Fawkes' Day in the Army, but it is probable that the next big war will provide a pyrotechnic display second to none…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →War Canoe As Wool Carrier
âTimes change and we with timeâ night be writ as a motto on what a surely one of the remarkable vessels of the world, and once the doughty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cockpit of Nations. Switzerland As War Hospital
Switzerland, the cradle of the Red Cross Society, now offers its services as a common hospital for the European nations in case of war. The land of William Tell is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cost of War
The total losses of France in killed, wounded, and prisoners in the France-German war were 21,600 officers and 702,000 men. The cost of the war to France was £544,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Liverpool Camp. (From our War Correspondent.)
The twenty-seven members of the Citizen Forces who left Bega on Thursday morning at about 7.15, arrived in Cooma in good time that night,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Notes. [?] War Correspondent
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cost of War
Professor Starr of the Leland-Stanford University, U.S.A. the great apostle of peace, refers to some aspects of war in the following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War on the Veil
"A strong movement is on foot in Cairo for the emancipation of the Moslem woman and the discarding of the traditional 'veil,'" the "Mail's" Cairo correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Laughed at Soldiers. Young German Arrested
An echo of the Zabern court-martial dictum, that a civilian may not laugh at a soldier, was heard at Strasburg, when a young man was arrested by soldiers for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →What War Means
What shall we say of the Balkan atrocities? (asks Professor Starr Jordan). Are they in fact unheard of, "inoul," as affirmed by the Congress at The Hague, or are they just part…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cost of War. World-wide Losses. the Slowing Down of Trade
What shall we say of the "Slowing Down of Trade" in America? asks Professor Starr Jordan. What of the "Slowing Down of Trade" in Europe? Don't believe that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl with the Bulgars. Shot in the Trenches. Grim Relics of Adventures. War-infested Land
To know the grim terrors of war falls to the lot of few of our women. There is one English lady at least who can claim to be the exception, and she is Miss Jessica…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death-ride of Soldier. Awful Fate on Way Home. After Absence Abroad
Impatient to see his parents from whom he had been so long exiled, and full of delighted expectation at the prospect of a happy reunion, James Duncan, aged 21, a soldier on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ernest Vizetelly. War Correspondent's Life
"In a book which deals with the 'People's War' in France after the defeat at Sedan, and the downfall of the Second Empire, Mr. Alfred Ernest Vizetelly relates some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman's Career As a Soldier
"Albert Cashier," an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois, who had been masquerading as a man for sixty years, and who served as a soldier…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Theirs Not to Reason Why. When Soldiers Begin to Think
Mr. Ponsonby, M.P., in the "Contemporary Review," says the doctrine of optional obedience involves the crumbling away of the whole basic principle of the Army as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman’s Career As a Soldier
âAlbert Cashier,â an [?] of the Soldiersâ Home at Q[?]ney, [?] had been masquera[?]ong as a [?] sixty years, and who [?] as a[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Unnamed Hero. How Three Officers Were Murdered. Wounded Man's Thought for Friend
Details have been received in Great Britain by mail from India of the fatal shooting at Tank Tahsil, on the North-west Frontier, of Major G. Dodd, Captain G. B. Brown,…
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