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The wars & local soldiers, 1889

5 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

The Traveller; South-eastern Europe. States that May at Any Time Become the Theatre if a Big War

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 13 March 1889 · page 3

The three small kingdoms of Groooo, Servia, and Roumania and the principality of Bulgaria are not very important powers in themselves in size, in population, in military…

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Sketcher. War with Big Guns

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 27 March 1889 · page 3

Did you over see a battery take position? It hasn't the thrill of a cavalry charge, nor the grinness of a line of bayonets moving slowly and determinedly on, but there is a…

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The Flying Fox Pest. "A Mile of Flying Foxes." Preparations for War

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 17 April 1889 · page 1

ORCHARDISTS and fruit-growers in the Berrima district complain that the flying foxes have been more numerous and their ravages consequently more alarming this season than during any previous year…

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PERSONALITIES. Veteran Soldiers

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 15 May 1889 · page 3

The majority of Prussian Field-Marshals have been old men; yet even among Prussian Field-Marshals Hellmuth Karl Bernhard, Count von Moltke, who has just celebrated…

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The War Cloud in Europe. London, June 13

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 June 1889 · page 2

THE Vossischs Zoitung, a continental newspaper, states that Russia has issued orders for the supply of 4,000,000 boots for the army; and also for the immediate storing…

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