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The wars & local soldiers, 1872

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The Soldiers Suffering Penal Servitude Since 1867

The Irish Citizen · Saturday 17 August 1872 · page 2

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The Duc De Gramont on the Prussian War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 11

The work on 'France and Prussia before the War,' by the Due de Gramont, Minister for Foreign Affairs at the time of the outbreak of hostilities, which was published in Paris…

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The Food of Our Soldiers. (From the United Service Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 August 1872 · page 3

OUR recent article on the subject of intemperance in the army has, we find, attracted considerable attention amongst the parties principally interested. The majority of our friends in the ranks feel gratified that…

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The Scene of the Late War

Empire · Tuesday 27 August 1872 · page 4

ALTHOUGH the Franco-German war has closed, and the French are making considerable progress in the business of buying out the Germans in possession, it will not be…

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Firing Into the Turret War Shit Glatton?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 August 1872 · page 2

The experimants upon, the turret of H. M. S. Glatton took place on July 6th, off Portland. By the counteray of the Lords of the Admirslty, we were soon aftar half-past [?] on board of the Salamander, lying near [?] Portland…

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Murder by a Soldier

Evening News · Saturday 31 August 1872 · page 3

ON Sunday last a drummer boy, named George Thomas Stock, aged sixteen, belonging to the 33rd company of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, was murdered by James Tooth, a private of the 4th company, aged…

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Murder by a Soldier

Empire · Monday 2 September 1872 · page 3

ON Sunday last a drummer boy, named George Thomas Stock, aged sixteen, belonging to the 33rd company of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, was murdered by James Tooth, a private of the 4th company, aged…

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Murder by a Soldier

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 September 1872 · page 22

On Sunday last a drummer-boy named George Thomas Stock, aged sixteen, belonging to the 33rd company of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, was murdered by James Tooth, a private of the 4th company, aged…

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Men of War on the Station

Empire · Monday 7 October 1872 · page 3

Clio, 21 guns, Commodore Stirling at Sydney. Cossack, 16 guns, Captain Douglas, on a cruise. Rosario, 3 guns, Commander Challis, at Sydney. Blanche, 3 guns, Commander Simpson, on a cruise…

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Key to the Last War. (From the Prussian Correspondent of the Times) BERLIN, July 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 October 1872 · page 6

MUCH has been said about the comprehensive preparations made by General Moltke in anticipation of the late memorable campaign. The plans he is believed to have drawn up, the calculations he is…

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Latest Special Telegrams Telegrams This Day Via Galle. Important on the Metal Market. the Earthquake in the Country Districts. Retirement of Mr. Duffy From Political Life. He Returns to Ireland. New Ministry in New Zealand. the Intercolonial Conference at Sydney. the New Victorian Medical Board. Suppression of Gambling. Latest Betting. the Java Cable Raising Apparatus. Arrest of Adolphe Oppen-heimer. French War Steamer Off Cape Otway. Disputes at the Chatham Islands. Latest Special Telegram from Galle The following private telegram has been received by a Sydney mercantile house to-day:— "Tin, copper, and all metals are likely to be lower. Bank rate, 44 per cent. Australian tin ore, 74 per cent.—£89 sterling. Ingot, £146; Wallaroo, £91. Port Darwin Cable Expected Early Restoration. Messages Anticipated From England on Monday Next. Adelaide, Saturday, 1.27 p.m

Evening News · Saturday 19 October 1872 · page 2

The cable-repairing ship was spoken this morning. She has picked up the Australian end of the submarine cable between Port Darwin and Java, and the tests are all perfect…

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War Pigeons for France

Empire · Wednesday 23 October 1872 · page 3
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According to La Liberte, M. Roo de Ia Barre, a celebrated Belgian "colombopbila"—or, as we should style him, less barbarously. In English, "pigeon fancier"— has proposed to the French Government the formation…

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A Legend of the Russian War. I.

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 November 1872 · page 24

In a wild Northumbrian valley near the Gorman ocean shore, Which oft'times the Danish viking pillng'd in the days of yore;…

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Men-of-war on the Station

Empire · Monday 4 November 1872 · page 3

Clio, 21 guns, Commodore Stirling, at New Zealand. Cossack, 16 guns, Captain Douglas, at Sydney. Rosario, 3 guns, Commodora Challis, at Solomon Islands…

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A Legend of the Russian War

Empire · Thursday 7 November 1872 · page 4

In a wild Northumbrian valley near the German ocean shore Which oft times the Danish viking pillag'd in the days of yore;…

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A Legend of the Russian War. I.

Evening News · Friday 8 November 1872 · page 4

In a wild Northnmbrian valley near the German ocean shore. Which oft times the Danish viking pillag'd in the days of yore;…

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The Prussian Password System. (From "My Experiences of the War between France and Germany." By Archibald Forbes.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 November 1872 · page 6

CHOOSING the raod I knew best, I left Sedan at 10 o'clock on the night of the 13th of November, in the company of a Prussian courier bound for the headquarters at Versailles, a favour for which I owe many…

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San Francisco Mail. at Auckland. Arrival of the Agrarian Violence in Ireland Collision of an Edinburgh Train. the Station-master Arrested. Deficiency of the Wheat Crop in England. Collision of a Train at Kertle Bridge. Terrific Explosion at Hanley. Forty Miners Killed. Disastrous Fire at Montreal, Canada. Railroad War Impending. a Railway Seized by the Government. Laura Fair Acquitted. Intense Excitement in San Francisco. Threats Made of Lynching Her. Auckland, November 8

Evening News · Saturday 23 November 1872 · page 2

The Nebraska left Honolulu on October 23. Passengers—For Port Chalmers: Mr. and Mrs. Van. Blaxcom, Barrows, and Mrs. Firney. For Lyttelton Messrs. Todhunter…

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Outrage by Soldiers

Evening News · Monday 25 November 1872 · page 3

AT the Newbury petty sessions, on September 19, before Mr. G. C. Cherry and a full bench of magistrates, two privates in the 13th Hussars, named Mark Fowler and James Isaac, who had been encamped with their…

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