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The wars & local soldiers, 1911

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Cost of a German War Appalling Figures

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 3

According to a writer in the "Quarterly Review," the loss to France by the France-Prussian War is circulated at 544,000,000 sterling, while the victor's…

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War in the Air. Aeroplane V. Dirigible. Difficulty of Destroying a Balloon

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 3

Mr W. F. Reid, lecturing on Tuesday at a meeting of the Aeronautical Society (said "Lloyd's News" on October 30) expressed the opinion that the…

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Soldier's Heart. Food and Clothes Reform

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 3

Mr Haldane, Secretary for War, speaking at the Royal Army Medical School, Millbank, yesterday afternoon. In connection with the prize…

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Railways in War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 March 1911 · page 6

"Preparation for mobilisation is primarily the work of the General Staff, which recommend the lines to be followed, and advise where, and in what…

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A British Soldier in the Soudan

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 March 1911 · page 3

Dining the last Soudan War (writes an ex-soldier), I was one of the Guards' Camel Corps up the Nile, and, before starting across the Bayuda desert, we…

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Mutiny in Brazil. Two Hundred Killed and Wounded. Capital Shelled

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 March 1911 · page 4

Another mutiny has been suppressed at Rio de Janeiro by the firm action of the Brazilian Government, but while It lasted there was desperate fighting…

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Welcome Home

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 2

A meeting of the parishioners of St. John's, Moss Vale, convened by the Women's Working Guild for the purpose of bidding welcome home…

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A British Soldier in India

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 3

An infantry regiment was stationed at P—, in India, at the same time as a certain battery of artillery was quartered there. There was great rivalry between…

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Soldier Sabbatarian. Prison in Preference to Work

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 3

The Supreme Military Court has (says the Berlin correspondent of the "Daily News") sentenced a Seventh Day Adventist named Naumann to five years'…

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"Holy War."

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 June 1911 · page 2

The situation in Morocco has again become grave, owing to the Berber tribesmen having proclaimed a "Holy War," and called upon…

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War Risks

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 July 1911 · page 2

Lloyds have notified that after August 9 shipowners will be required to take out a special war risk at a special rate…

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Soldiers Adventure in India

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 3

Once during my service in India, I had the advantage of being stationed close to the sea. Ono evening, after a roasting not day, a party of us strolled to the seashore…

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The Labor War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 30 August 1911 · page 6

Rioting continues in the Bargoed district of Gismorganshire, South Wales. The a shops of the Jewest Senghenydd,…

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War—what For? (To the Editorof the Scrutineer)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 2

Dear Sir,—"War, What For?" is the title of a recent work by George Kirkpatrick. It is better to read the review. On the paper cover of the…

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March to Fez. How France Makes Soldiers

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 3

El Merani's Moorish column arrived here to-day with its straggling convoy covering over two miles of road. We had risen almost before…

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Worse Than War. Anatole France on "Steel Mania."

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 September 1911 · page 4

A gala performance was given at the Trocadero last night to commemorate to the holding of the first Peace Conference at The Hague (said the Paris…

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War Illogical. a Woman's Views

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 October 1911 · page 4

Mrs Despard, the well-known suffragette, was a principal speaker at the meeting of the National Union of Spiritualists, held at the Town Hall,…

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The Horrors of War. To the Editor of the Scrutineer

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 2

Sir,—It were wiser perhaps to write of 'peace and thus nourish the thoughts that all normal minds unconsciously crave; but when threatened with war a vivid…

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Italian-Turko War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 November 1911 · page 5

Farther accounts of Thursday's battle near the town of Tripoli increase its sanguinary character and the desperate fighting between invaders and…

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Woos and Wins. War Time Love

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 November 1911 · page 3

Mrs Anna M'Kee, a resident nurse, and Wesley Grant, a retired farmer of Randolph County, 111., sweethearts more than half a century ago (wired…

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