Peace or War?
An influential gathering of ministers of the Protestant congregations, with many ladies, met in the Y.M.C.A. rooms yesterday afternoon on the invitation of the Society of Friends, to…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1889
448 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 23
Citizen Soldiers
Less than thirty years ago tho volunteer was a recognised object for the jibes of the humorous. We have only to look over old volumes of "Punch" to…
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Last evening a large congregation was present at the Wesleyan Church, William-street, when, after the Rev. R. Bavin had conducted the opening exercises, Mr. William Jones, late secretary of the Peace Society,…
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LONDON, April 27.-Austria is mating arrangements to place three complete army corps in Galicia. It is also intended to doable the landwehr, or militia. Military manoeuvres on a large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in Samoa. the Late Slaughter of Germans Graphically Described. How the Germans Made Themselves the Aggressors. a Chief and Three Natives Killed Before the Fire Was Returned. No. 1
THE name of Mr. J. C. Klein, the special correspondent at Apia for the NEW YORK WORLD, has been brought into prominence lately by the attempt of the Germans to…
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LONDON, April 29.-M. Hitrovo, the Russian Minister at Bucharest, is bargaining with Roumania to secure the right-of-way through the Dobrudscha for Russian troops marching…
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LONDON, April 29.-Advices from India state that the 32nd Pioneers have been ordered up to reinforce the British, troops at Gnatong, who have been garrisoned in Sikkim daring the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in Samoa. the Late Slaughter of Germans Graphically Described. How the Germans Made Themselves the Aggressors. a Chief and Three Natives Killed Before the Fire Was Returned. [Concluded.]
United States Vice-Consul Blacklock sent a vigorous protest to German Consul Knappe on the morning of the 17th, declaring that the action of the sailors…
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LONDON, April 30.-Roumania is pressing forward with the fortications of Bucharest and Galatz. Russia is believed t be tampering with M. Stambouloff, the Premier of Bulgaria, asserting…
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The 32nd British Pioneers are under orders to proceed to Sikkim, to reinforce the troops at Gnatong. The Lamas are defiant…
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LONDON, April 30.-The Austrian papers are excited by reports which are appearing that Russia intends to seize Constantinople. [Every now and again Russia demands payments of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Peace or War. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—On reading your good-natured "setting down" last Saturday morning to the ladies who had ventured so far from the companionship of the cradle and the contemplation of cookery recipes as to express to the…
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LONDON, May 2.-The foreign diplomatic agents at Vienna profess to believe that the peace of Europe is safe for this year. The STANDAED'S Vienna correspondent declares that the Czar…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day's Parliament. the Debate Continued. Bruce Smith " Unbending." Crick on the War-path
ON the House resuming shortly after 9 o'clock, ' Mr. EDMONDS said that he had not remained in the House through the night…
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LONDON, May 3.-In writing to the Marquis of Salisbury upon the present aspect of European affairs, Sir Robert Morier, British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, declares that M. Vishnegradsky…
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Iris stood speechless with horror and terror. From the window of the dining-room, whence they looked upon the outer court of the fort, she could see a turbulent mass of angry Kabyles, the first in the field,…
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LONDON, May 5.-The Porte suspects that there is a conspiracy in Armenia against Turkish authority. Many arrests have been effected. The Plain or Mouch has been occupied…
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LONDON, May 6.-The Russian press is very bellicose in regard to the Balkan States. (FROM THE MELBOURNE "TELEGRAPH.") London, May 6.-A Kurdish chief named…
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The tabular statement given below, showing the amount of the standing armies of Europe, even when on a peace footing, will convey some idea of the waste of human energy involved, to say nothing of the cost…
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A soldier commenced a letter to his sweetheart thus: "I write you with a sword in one hand and a bottle of Walker's Whisky in the other."—[ADVT.]…
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