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The wars & local soldiers, 1904

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 February 1904 · page 5

The Chefoo correspondent of the "Morning Post" reports that 40,000 more Japanese have landed at Chemulpho…

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The War in the Far East

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 February 1904 · page 2

According to Russian accounts, another attack upon Port Arthur, on this occasion unsuccessful, has been made by the Japanese…

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The Russian-Japanese War. Conflicting Reports

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 2

The "New York Herald" reports that the Japanese fleet on Thursday bombarded the forts at Port Arthur and the town. Five of the guns of the…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 5

Fifteen Japanese warships appeared off Pott Arthur at 10 o'clock on Monday morning, and opened a furious bombardment, which lasted two hours…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 2

Japan landed 2500 troops, without artillery, at Song-chin, in Northern Korea, on February 19. They are advancing into Manchuria…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 5

It is announced that the Mikade's heir is going to the front. Korean soldiers, incensed at Russian excesses and the maltreatment of native…

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King Edward and the War

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 1

King Edward said in an audience he granted the loader of the French International Arbitration Group that he hoped the press of all nations would try to attenuate the difficulties of the present…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 5

Vice-Admiral Makaroff the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Naval forces in the Far East, telegraphing from Port Arthur, gives as account of…

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The War of Wars

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 3

This twentieth century must grow some what older before it is possible to appreciate in their true proportion the events of the nineteenth century. Nevertheless, one fact…

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The War In the Far East

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 3

The Russians are mounting siege and field guns on a Chinese fort on the east bank of the Liao River at Ying-chow, the port of Newchwang…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 6

Before the Stereg[?]tchy sank at Port Arthur on the 10th instant, it is surmised that 40 Russians jumped over board and were drowned. Only four…

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The War in the Far East

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 2

The "Daily Express," in its account of the bombardment of Port Arthur on the 10th inst., states that one of the Japanese shells killed 19 officers and…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 1

The "Times" war correspondent reports that the Japanese are holding A[?]ju, the city on the Great Mandarin road, 150 miles north of Seoul and 70…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 2

A telegram from Chi ,u reports that the Japanese bombarded Port Arthur for an hour on the 13th inst., killing five Europeans and a number of…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 30 March 1904 · page 2

The Japanese fleet have made another attempt to block the entrance to Port Arthur with four merchantmen The guns of the fortress however,…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 1

The [?] soldiers at New-[?] are stated to have b[?] down British and American flags from a number of private buildings…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 April 1904 · page 2

"Le Temps," a Paris newspaper, states that General "Kuropatkin, commander of the Russian land forces, will have 500,000 soldiers by the end…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 2

A party of mounted brigands surprised Russian scouts at Liao-yang, killing several and damaging the telegraph and railway. A Seoul telegram states that the rapid…

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Thy Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 6

Bridges have been laid by Japanese engineers across the Cheng-chen River, a few miles to the north of Anju, and its tributary, the Pak-chung River,…

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The Russian-Japanese War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 1

The "Times" was correspondent with the headquarters of the Japanese troops states that neither of the belligerents desires to fight in the vicinity…

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