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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
302 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 16
A CONTEMPORARY reckons up the French losses in the war. Instead of having, as she pretended, when her diasters began, no more than 250,000 men ready to do battle with Germany, France must have had at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MONDAY'S Paris journals contain a very characteristic article, "Aux Parisiens," by M. Victor Hugo. "So," he begins, "the Prussians have decreed that France shall be Germany and Germany Prussia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE energy displayed by the late and the present Governments in preparing for defence against foreign aggression is further developed by some fuller information which we have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE do not attach any practical importance to any of the speeches on the war which have been delivered during the last two weeks. It is so obvious that the country, as a whole, has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early on Monday morning and during the entire day, an extensively circulated rumour, reporting the arrival of the Cerberus, at Melbourne, with intelligence of war being declared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHEN the loud shoots of the German soldiers proclaimed the German victory at Sedan, a Prussian soldier of herculean frama, who lay on the ground mortally wounded and unconscious, suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lo, the voice of the War-fiend! I heard his wild scream, And it thrill'd through my heart like a feverish dream; All nature around me seemed chilly and drear, As the voice of the spirit fell sad on my car…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →THE BURNING OF ABLIS.--A German hussar, who was an eye-witness of the attack on Ablis, gives an account of it in a letter under date of Rambouillet, fee 9th ultimo, published in fee Kreisblatt [?] das…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →IF it were to become fashionable to speak of robbery and murder as things which some persons were privileged to perpetrate and which were rather honorable than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Tie only a woman left behind while the men go forth to fight? She hushed her cry as she let them go, and her eyes were strangely bright; Husband and brother and son went out, and she bade them each…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →UNDER the signature of "Carrier," a correspondent of the Field communicates to that journal the following interesting information relative to carrier pigeons:—…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →THE three great organs of opinion--the Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly Review, and the British Quarterly Review--represent the ideas of England upon most questions…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE Journal des Debats refers to the publication in the Journal Official of extracts from reports and letters addressed by the prefects to the Minister of the In[?]ror before the declaration of the war. Of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Panting Time toiled after him in vain."--Johnson. THE question of Harbor Defences and of the very large and sudden expenditure which it is understood the Government propose appropriating for the purpose, upon mere Executive authority, must occupy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The beautiful capital of the civilized, world is about to be ruined, and the selfish, and unpitying Governments of Europe will not raise a finger, to prevent this vandalism. Paris and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →THE following is the financial report of the Society for the Relief of Sick and Wounded in War:- "The return of their chairman, Colonel Loyd Lindsay, from his mission to the head-quarters of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Journal des Debats refers to the publication in the Journal Official of extracts from reports and letters addressed by the prefects to the Minister of the Interior before the declaration of the war. Of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—The extract which I send you of a letter which I have lately received from an old French friend residing at Beauvais is not only distinguished by its good sense respecting the policy of continuing the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There was fighting to the north of the Loire and around Paris, from the 28th November to the 7th December. General D[?]t made a sortie with 150,000 men, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If Count Bismarck should not be able to be present during the session of the Reichstrath, which is to commence at Berlin on the 24th of November, he will be represented by Herr Von Delbruck, chief…
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