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The wars & local soldiers, 1891

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Loss of a Man-of-War

Evening News · Monday 2 November 1891 · page 6

LONDON, October 30.—It is feared that the Mexican man-of-war Democrata has been lost with all on board…

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The United States and Chili. the Chilians Defiant. Mr. Blaine Determined. Minister Egan Leaving Santiago. Preparing for War. LONDON, October 31

The Australian Star · Monday 2 November 1891 · page 3

The Government of the Republic of Chili have imperatively demanded the recall of Mr. Patrick Egan, the United States consul at Santiago. Mr. Benjamin…

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The United States and Chili. the Threatened War. Inquiries Into the Valparaiso Riot

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 November 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--The correspondent of The Times at Valparaiso states that there were on board the American squadron spies in the service of the late…

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The Czarina and the Jewish Soldiers. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 November 1891 · page 6

Sir—A few weeks ago, in common with other pericdicals, you gave publicity to a cablegram to the effect that at a review of soldiers in Russia the Czarina intimated a desire that the Jewish contingent…

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The Workers' War. All Over the World. London, November 3

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 November 1891 · page 4

The miners of Tennessee, United States, have liberated an additional 200 convict miners. The warders on duty offered no resistance…

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The Riots in China. Objection to a British War. Ship and Troops. a General Feeling of Alarm

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 November 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--The Mandarins at Ichang, an important town on the Yangtze-Kiang, resent the presence of a British warship with troops in the river…

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The United States and Chill an Alliance with England Sought. America to Exhaust Diplomacy Before War. American Sailors Killed by Police. Mr. P. Egan Exceeds Instructions

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 November 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Monday, 11.25 a.m.--The New York World states that the Chilian Provisional Government is seeking an alliance with England…

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The United States and Chill. Mr. Blaine and the Declaration of War

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 November 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Night.--It is understood that Mr. J. G. Blaine, the United States Secretary of State, does not approve of the desire of Mr. Patrick Egan, the…

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The Workers' War. Strikes Settled. Threat of Tram Men. Strike of Weavers. LONDON, November 5

The Australian Star · Friday 6 November 1891 · page 4

A conference of employers and the New-castle-on-Tyne engineers, who are on strike on the overtime question, was held yesterday. Both parties gave way somewhat, and…

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Confusion in Chili. a Conspiracy Discovered. The Army and the Nobility. A Murder Fund--Election of President. Preparing for War. LONDON, November 5

The Australian Star · Friday 6 November 1891 · page 5

It is reported from Chili that an attempt to murder General Canto, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, has been discovered. Later…

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Bishop Dunne at Broken Hill. Welcome Home to the Bishop of Wilcannia

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 18

ON Thursday week the Right Rev. Dr. Dunne, Bishop of Wilcannia, returned from his visit to Europe. The Bishop (writes our Broken Hill correspondent) was met at the railway station by the…

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The Class War

The Australian Workman · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 1

THE present contest between Labor and Capital has been the outcome, not so much of altered conditions as of an alteration in the methods of Thought. The great mass -- the…

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New "Engines of War."

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 9

Several new "engines of war" have just lately been brought out in the United States, one of which especially threatens to have a most destructive future. This latter is the…

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£20,000 Thrown Away. War Scares and Rusting Guns

Evening News · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Friday.—During the debate on the defences in the South Australian Assembly last night some curious instances of how to make a mess of it were brought forward. During the last…

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The United States and Chili. War Preparations in the Navy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday Night.--From New York it is reported that Mr. Benjamin F. Tracy, the Secretary for the Navy, is completing the outfit of warships with the…

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United States and Chili. Mr. Blaine and the Declaration of War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 10

IT is understood (reports cable, Nov. 5) that Mr. J. G. Blaine, the United States Secretary of State, does not approve of the desire of Mr. Patrick Egan, the American Consul at Santiago, to…

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'Serious Encounter at Kinsale. Soldiers and Civilians Fight

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 6

For some months past (says the Cork HERALD, Sept. 26) hostile feeling existed between the young men of Kinsale and the soldiers of the Manchester Regiment a battalion of which is…

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Irish Soldiers in the British Army

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 19

AN English officer writes to TRUTH on the subject of the distribution of the [?]torial regiments, and be considers that from a lighting point of view the teritorial idea is distinctly a mistake…

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Railway Accident in India. Five Soldiers Killed. London, November 6

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 4

News has been received of a terrible railway accident in India. While the train was passing Nagpur, a town 440 miles from Bombay, one of the wheels of the engine…

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Railway Disaster in India. British Soldiers Killed and Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--A serious railway Accident has occurred in India. Through the breaking of a wheel a train became derailed at Nagpore, a large town…

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