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The wars & local soldiers, 1870

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After the War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1870 · page 8

A MONGST the many discussions to which the Franco-Germanic war has given rise, the question of what is to be the ultimate settlement after the war has been closed, has not failed…

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Sufferers During the War Meetings in Melbourne

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 October 1870 · page 11

The movement to organise the "Souscription Patriotique," i.e., subscriptions for the relief of the wounded French soldiers and the widows and orphans of the French killed in the war with…

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Edmond About on the horrors of War

Sydney Mail · Saturday 15 October 1870 · page 10

The more melancholy tales of warfare, those which relate to the death and injury of strong-hearted and strong-bodied men and enthusiastic youths, are now hieing told once again with respect to the new…

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The War; and Religious and National Sympathies

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 October 1870 · page 8

IN the course of the disastrous war in which two of the greatest military powers of Europe were engaged, at the date of our latest advices, it is especially…

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The War. Movements of the German Army. Soultz Les Forets, August 7

Sydney Mail · Saturday 15 October 1870 · page 10

I MUST write as I and time, The Crown Prince naits here to-day. A halt is needed to get up supplies, send off wounded and prisoners, and wait for the corps now fast arriving. But every day brings news…

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Press Representatives at the Seat of War

Evening News · Monday 17 October 1870 · page 3

IT is known that two of the correspondents of the Paris Press, Attached respectively to the Figaro and the Gaulois, fell into the hands of the Prussians when following their calling with the French army, and…

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Peage and War.—a Scene at San Souci

Empire · Monday 17 October 1870 · page 4

IN the midst of all the great preparations for war in Prussia, there was a ceremony at the palace at Potsdam on Sunday week which had an interest all its own. The youngest-born daughter of the Crown…

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Paris in War Time. (From the Pall Mall Gazette, August 5.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 October 1870 · page 6

WHEN the first Napoleon went to war, his last care before starting was to send for his trusty M. Frochot, Prefect of the Seine, and for his well-beloved M. Fouche, Minister of Police,…

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Terrible Riot in New York. (From the New York Tribute, July l5.) Ribbonmen and Orangemen in Conflict. Desperate Fight in Elm Park. Several Killed and Many Wounded. North of Ireland Feuds Transferred to New York

Evening News · Monday 17 October 1870 · page 3

THE association of Orangemen celebrated the anni-versary of the Battle of the Battle of the Boyne on Tuesday by a procession and pic-nic at Elm Park, Ninety-second-street, near Eighth-avenue. The Orangemen started…

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Press Representatives at the Seat of War

Empire · Tuesday 18 October 1870 · page 3

IT is known that two of the correspondents of the Paris Press, attached respectively to the Figaro and the Gaulois, fell into the hands of the Prussians when following their calling with the French army, and…

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The New Foreign Enlistment Hill. (From the Economist.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 October 1870 · page 6

THE enactment which the Government proposes for the direction of British subjects in their conduct towards belligerents with whom we are at peace mainly carries out as promised…

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War Narratives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 October 1870 · page 3

THE Siecle, writing of the military situation, says:- "The defeat of M'Mahon has been terrible—we must be outspoken—more disastrous than we thought. He has told us officially that he brought off 18,000…

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Ireland and the War

Evening News · Wednesday 19 October 1870 · page 3

THE Daily News correspondent says:—"The interest felt in the war in Ireland is deep and widespread. The papers devote almost their entire space to the news of the conflict. Public sympathy…

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War News From the Continental Journals

Evening News · Wednesday 19 October 1870 · page 3

THE Paris papers of yesterday complain bitterly of the manner in which the French public is treated in the matter of war news. The Figaro says:—"Are we reduced to this that we must learn from English…

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Confidence of Germany in the Result of the War. (From the National Zeitung of Berlin.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 October 1870 · page 3

NOBODY can confidently foretell the result ot this or that battle to be fought between two equally warlike nations. But a nation can speak of her victory with confidence when she goes to war for her most sacred…

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The Comparative Merits of the French and German Soldier. (From the Economist.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 October 1870 · page 3

IT is quite useless as yet to predict, or attempt to prediet, the issues of this war, and we have not much appreciation of the popular methods of essaying the calculation. The vague no[?]ion of Providential…

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War News From the Continental Journals

Empire · Thursday 20 October 1870 · page 4

THE Paris papers of yesterday complain bitterly of the manner in which the French public is treated in the matter of war news. The Figaro says:—" Are we reduced to this that we must learn from English…

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The British Working Classes and the War

Evening News · Thursday 20 October 1870 · page 3

AN address relating to the present war has been prepared by the Workman's Peace Committee, for circulation among the working-men of Great Britain and Ireland. The committee invite their fellow…

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The War. Scraps From French Papers

Evening News · Friday 21 October 1870 · page 3

THE following from Paris:—On Saturday morning, 13th August, men were hard at work close to the Napoleon Bridge, driving enormous stakes into the river, so as to bar up the Seine; the object being to…

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The British Working Classes and the War

Empire · Friday 21 October 1870 · page 2

AN address relating to the present war has been prepared by the Workmen's Peace Committee, for circulation among the working-men of Great Britain and Ireland. The committee invite their fellow…

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