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The wars & local soldiers, 1882

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The War in Tunis

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 9

LONDON, March 24.—The French Governments has determined to make a decided 'effort to suppress the rising of the Arab tribes in Tunis. Nine…

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The Becent War Scare. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1882 · page 5

Captain Mitchell, of Hobart, who pilcted the Afrik[?] from Hobart to Melbourne, emphatically denies, and offers to make a statutory declaration in support of his denial, the assertion that he was employed to specially…

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The War in Algiers

Evening News · Monday 10 April 1882 · page 2

PARIS. April 8.-Intelligence has been received from Tunis of a sanguinary engagement between the French troops and levies of the insurgent leader, Bon Amtma. The…

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The War in Algiers. Paris, April 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 April 1882 · page 5

Intelligence has been received from Tunis of a sanguinary engagement between the French troops and levies of the insurgent leader, Bon Amina. The latter were…

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Russian Preparation's for War

Evening News · Tuesday 11 April 1882 · page 2

LONDON, April 5. In view of eventualities, and as a counter move to the precantions which Germany is taking for the protection of her Baltic provinces, Russia…

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The War Scare

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 15 April 1882 · page 10

Melbourne, says the Southern Cross, has had in a mild way, its war- scare during the week but it has taken its panic mainly as a clumsy and not too courteous joke. The martial…

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Russian Preparations for War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1882 · page 9

LONDON, April 5.—In view of eventualities, and as a counter move to the precautions which Germany is taking for the protection of her Baltic provinces, Russia…

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The War in Algiers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1882 · page 9

PARIS, April 8.—Intelligence has been received from Tunis of a sanguinary engagement between the French troops and levies of the insurgent leader, Bon Amina. The…

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Beginning the Land War in Wales

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 April 1882 · page 8

The Welsh are circulating a handbill throughout Cardiganshire, Wales, which calls upon the farmers to give up their farms unless their rents are reduced. It is promised…

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War Letter. to the Editor of the F. J.— Sir,—i trust

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 April 1882 · page 14

yourself and our readers will excuse the conspicuousness of the absence of my "Acta Populi" this week. The fact is, my bleeding country called " To arms!" and my soul became at once…

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To-day's Cables. Disastrous Native War

Evening News · Wednesday 3 May 1882 · page 4

LONDON, May 2.—A disastrous tribal war is being waged among the natives on the West Coast of Africa. In one battle alone, in Calabar, a maritime district on the…

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Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram (From Our Own Correspondent.) Native War in West Africa. London, May 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 May 1882 · page 5

Tribal warfare is raging in West Africa. About a thousand natives were killed in a battle which recently took place at Calabar…

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Disastrous Native War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 May 1882 · page 9

LONDON, May 2.—A disastrous tribal war is being waged among the natives on the West Coast of Africa. Iii one battle alone, in Calabar, a maritime district on the…

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Colonial Soldiers

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 6 May 1882 · page 8

In presenting the Zulu war medal to the Natal Volunteers, Sir Evelyn Wood described the gallant stand made at Isandhlwana in eloquent terms, relying partly on his own…

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A Colonial Soldier

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 May 1882 · page 32

WE have pleasure in publishing the accompanying engraving. from a photograph sent from Ceylon. The young fellow who is standing is a colonial. He is now a soldier in Her Majesty's…

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The Inner Life of a War Correspondent

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 May 1882 · page 3

Last evening the Masonic Hall in York-street was crowded to suffocation by an Exceedingly fashionable audience to hear the first of a series of lectures by Mr. Archibald Forbes, the famous war correspondent…

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The Turkish War Indemnity

Evening News · Tuesday 16 May 1882 · page 2

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 13.—The negotiations which have been long pending between the Porte and the Russian Government, relative to the payment of the war…

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The Turkish War Indemnity. Constantinople, May 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 May 1882 · page 5

The negotiations which have been long pending between the Porte and the Russian Government, relative to the payment of the war indemnity due by the former, have now…

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The Turkish War Indemnity. London, May 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 May 1882 · page 5

The Russo-Turkish war indemnity convention has been signed…

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The Russo-turkish War Indemnity. Constantinople, May 13

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 May 1882 · page 3

The negotiations which have so long been proceeding between the Porte and the Russian Government relative to the payment of the war indemnity due by Turkey have been brought…

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