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The wars & local soldiers, 1897

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Bowral Free Press Do as adversaries do in law: Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, February 20, 1897. Possible War

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 2

THE eye of the world is just now anxiously turned upon the little island of Crete, at one time known as Candia, in the Mediterranean Sea. This island was captured…

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War Imminent

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 2

EVERYTHING points to the imminence of war in the Transvaal. The British subjects in the South African Republic cannot much longer tolerate the tryanny of…

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War Declared. Turkey and Greece

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 April 1897 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday niaht.—News han been received that Turkish troops have fired upon and sunk a mercantile steamer from a fort at Preveza, a seaport on the Greek frontiers…

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Bowral Free Press Do us advertiser do in l[?]: Strange mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, April 24, 1897. WAR

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 2

AFTER twenty years of peace Europe is once again the scene of a fierce and bloody conflict, and Greece and Turkey are engaged in a terrible struggle upon the…

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War and the Transvaal

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 2

Every sign points to the declaration of war by England against the Transvaal. The Datch Republic has not only repeatedly broken the London Convention, but has…

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Bowral Free Press Do as adversaries do in law: Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, May 15, 1897. the Lessons of the War

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 2

THE defeat of Greece by Turkey is without doubt significant of the value of brains in modern warfare. There has been no want of bravery on the part of the Greek…

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The Blast of War

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 31 July 1897 · page 4

GRIM VISAGED truly is war, glorious war, as it is so mis-named by the poet, that dread scourge which has entailed untold suffering upon the human race, which has…

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Sailors and Soldiers of the Queen

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 August 1897 · page 3

SAILORS, and Soldiers, of the Queen, boys! Side by side, the Blue and Bed together, Better "pals" the world has never seen, boys! Bred from Rose, or Shamrock, or the Heather!…

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Bowral Free Press Do as adver[?] do [?] mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, September 4, 1897. the Indian Frontier War

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 4 September 1897 · page 2

Too much importance should not be attached to the present frontier war on the border line of Afghanistan, as the Ameer of Cabul has but a very indefinite…

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The Convention of footballers. 18 WOUNDED

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 4

AN old cynic gives his forecast of what may happen should Mr, O'Sullivan's proposal to hold a convention of footballers to discuss the Draft Commonwealth Bill be discussed…

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The War in India

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 16 October 1897 · page 2

The war now going on upon the IndoAfghan frontier is evidently more than one of India's little frontier wars. It has assumed gigantic proportions, and the…

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No More War

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 20 October 1897 · page 3

This is not the statement of sanguine dreamers who weave pretty theories to soothe their own minds. It is the boldly expressed opinion of military and naval…

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Why Does a Soldier Wear a Red Coat?

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 3 November 1897 · page 3

The ideal colour for a soldier's uniform is one which shall be sufficiently conspicuous at short distances to facilitate leading, and to exaggerate the moral…

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