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Southern Highlands · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1888

6 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Salvation Army Jottings by a Bowral Soldiers

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 2

On Good Friday special Army services were held in Moss Vale, and soldiers from all parts met to engage therein. In the afternoon a holiness meeting was held for soldiers…

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The French Dogs of War

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 27 June 1888 · page 3

The London Court Journal says that the 'dog corps' in the French Army is being carefully trained at Belfort, and the pupils begin to do credit to their teachers. Huge dogs…

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A War Scare

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 4 July 1888 · page 1

YESTERDAY'S Herald says:—The war scare which has been raised by the Melbourne defence authorities, in consequence of the break down of the European cable, has not…

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Letters to the Editor. "In the Event of War."

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 July 1888 · page 1

SIR,—Some of your readers believe you would insert a clause taken from one of the most interesting and momentous articles that ever fell to my lot to read. I will only…

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Will 1888 Be a Year of War?

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 22 August 1888 · page 3

The present year is the fifth year of modern times in which the aggregate of the figured in twenty-five, and there will be but five years in which such a combination is…

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The Sergeant and Soldiers

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 November 1888 · page 4

A FRENCH sergeant to whom was entrusted the oversight of twenty-four soldiers, had a chance to find out for himself the truth of Longfellow's statement that "things are not what they seem."…

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