Turkish Soldiers. Threaten the Arsenal. LONDON, December 31
Seventeen hundred of the disbanded Turkish marines created a disturbance in Constantinople by surrounding the arsenal and clamouring for arrears of…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1897
1,140 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 57
Balloon Experiences in War Time
"Die Vedetie," a paper published in Vienna, and devoted to military literature, gives an account of the use of balloons by the French Army during the investment of Paris by the Germans in 1870,…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The Soldiers' Appeal
A verdict for £2 was not much redress for a man who had lost his best pig and had had his head cracked; in fact, it was only adding insult to injury, especially as there were no lawyers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Settler Versus Soldier
Sympathising as he did with his friend, the brewer, in all things, Palmer could not restrain bis excitement at this audacious outrage, as he called it, and proposed that they should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Remarkable Challenge the Female Elector and the Doctor. She Was Prepared to Meet Him in a Tug-of-war
SOME extraordinary correspondence has appeared in an Auckland contemporary, originating with an open letter from Dr. Bakewell, published a few days before the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cuban War
The Paris correspondent of the "Daily News," telegraphing on November 18, expressed the feeling of the Spanish Government in regard to the attitude…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Courts. a MAN-oF-WAR'S Man in Trouble
Mitchell Henderson (25), a man-of-war's man,was charged before Mr.G.W.F.Addison, S.M., at the Water Police Court on Saturday, with extingwishing a lamp in a public street. He pleaded guilty, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Situation in Melbourne General Strike Commenced. "War to the Knife."
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The smouldering fire of disaffection which has been apparent in shipping circles for some time past in connection with the Australasian Institute of Marine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Major-general Hutton. Lecture on Colonial Soldiers. The Soldiers of Great Britain. Military Organisation In Australia--A Scheme of Federal Defence
In his recent lecture upon "Our Comrades of Greater Britain," delivered before the Aldershot Military Society, on November 24 last, Major-General…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Re-organising the French Army. the Duration of Military Service. Important Speech by the Minister for War
In a recent communication to the "Standard," the Paris correspondent of that journal says that the editors of a number of service journals, published in Paris, having formed themselves into…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Soldiers of Greater Britain. Speech by Colonel Hutton
General Lord William Seymour (in the absence, through indisposition of the Duke of Connaught) presided, on 24th November, at a meeting of the Aldershot Military Society, when Colonol E. T…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First Aid to the Wounded. Another Florence Nightingale
SHE pined to be another Florence Nightingale. She was a Sydney woman with a hankering after notoriety. She had tried writing for the newspapers, but the way of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trouble at the Theatre. The Drama at Norfolk Island. Soldiers and Settlers. An Angry Husband--Reserved Seats --Death to Everybody--AProjected Insurrection -- Disarming the Army--An Angry Commandant--Time's Revenges
Following at an interval of four years the example set in Sydney by Governor Phillip, permission was in May, 1793, given to a soldier and several…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Shooting Accident. a Boy Seriously Wounded
A boy named James Waterman, aged 8, was the victim of a shooting accident in Louis-street, Redforn, last night. He resides in that vicinity and was walking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Macedonia. Outrages by Turkish Soldiers
LONDON, January 13.—Disbanded Turkish soldiers are sacking villages in Macedonia and committing brutal outrages on the inhabitants…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Outrages by Turkish Soldiers. Sacking of Macedonian Villages
LONDON, Wednesday. -- Constantinople dispatches state that a number of disbanded Turkish soldiers are sacking villages in Macedonia, and indulging In brutal outrages on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tug of War. Meeting of Irishmen
A public meeting of Irishmen is announced to take place at the Guild Hall, Castlereagh-street, at 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, with the object of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Latest Cables. the Niger Massacre. Return of Carriers. Captain, Boisragon Safe. Two Members Wounded--Six Days Wandering in the Bush. LONDON, January 15
A despatch just received from the Niger Coast Protectorate reports that 20 carriers forming portion of the friendly expedition which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grand Australian Fair Sports. The International Tug of War
A LARGE meeting of Irishmen over whom Mr Thomas J McCabe presided, was held yesterday afternoon at the Guild Hall. Casti[?]eagh-street, for the purpose of having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special Edition. Late Cables. The Revolt in Cuba. a Spanish Gunboat Torpedoed. Six Killed, Many Wounded
LONDON, January 19.—The Spanish gunboat Relampago, operating against the Cuban rebels, has been destroyed by torpedoes in the Cauto River…
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