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The wars & local soldiers, 1897

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The Outer World. Degrees for Women. Styles for Men. The Fashions in London -- Bright and Barbarous Colours -- The Europeen War Cloud--An Olden Love Letter. LONDON, March 19

The Australian Star · Thursday 6 May 1897 · page 5

The report on University degrees for women, to which I referred in a former letter, has now been published, and by a majority of four is favourable. The…

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The War News

Evening News · Friday 7 May 1897 · page 4

The war news to-day is that the Turks have at length made their great attack on Pharsala combined, it would appear, vita an attempt to turn the Greek right by way of Velestino…

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The War. Fighting at Phersala. Attack on the Greek Out Posts. Sharp But Indecisive Fighting

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 May 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--The Turks have made a vigorous attack on the Greek outposts at Phersala. The Duke of Sparta and Prince Nicholas led the defence…

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War in Europe. Tee Greeks in Retreat. Desperate Fighting, V Teleshona Deluged in Blood. Athens in Despair

Evening News · Friday 7 May 1897 · page 6

LONDON, May 6, 8.40 p.m.—The Turks have lost 1200 men since Friday in reckless assaults upon the strong position held by the Greeks at Velestino…

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Second Edition. the War in Europe. Great Battle Raging at Phersala. London, May 6. 1.10 p.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 May 1897 · page 5

A telegram has just reached London stating that a great battle is raging at Phersala between the Greeks and the Turks…

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War in Europe. Turkey and Greece. Battle at Phersala. Vigorous Attack on the Greek Outposts. Sharp But Indecisive Fighting. London, May 6, 4.25 a.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 May 1897 · page 5

The Turks made a vigorous attack on the Greek outposts at Phersala. The Duke of Sparta, the Commander- in-Chief, and his brother Prince Nicholas…

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A Methodist Layman. a Welcome Home to Mr. S.[?]. Gannon. of Lithgow

The Methodist · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 8

Mr. S. H. Gannon, onf Lithgow, is one of the Methodist laymen of this colony of whom our church may well be proud, because the influence of his…

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War Notes

The Australian Workman · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 2

Greece decides to continue the straggle. The Greeks have gained one victory over the Turks on land since last issue. It is said that the Greeks, where the…

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The War News

Evening News · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 4

Remarking on the war situation on May 4 we said, "The fact that the Greeks are in line of battle, not only at Pharsala, but at the strong mountain position at Domoko, ten miles…

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The War in Europe

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 9
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal, Australian Town and Country Journal

According to the latest cablegrams the Athena correspondent of the Times stater, that the Greek. Government, notwithstanding reverses, after consulting with Ministers sent to Phersala,…

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War with the Transvaal

Evening News · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 2

IT is with deep regret that we notice the ef­forts of ascertain sec­tion of the English…

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The War Cloud in Europe

The Methodist · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 7

The war now raging between Greece and Turkey is in every way to be deplored, and undoubtedly might have been averted had Greece listened to the…

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Stokers on Men-of-war

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 4

There are some severe remarks in "Truth" this week on the death of a stoker from heat apoplexy aboard H.M.S. Flora whilst in the Red Sea on her voyage to Australia. The catastrophe, it…

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The War—Map Showing Sites of the Principal Batties

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 25

THE DOTTED FRONTIER LINE SHOWS THE FRONTIER AS IT WAS UP TO 1881; THE THICK BLACK LINE EXTENDING FROM PREVESA ON THE WEST TO MT. OLYMPUS ON THE EAST SHOWS THE FRONTIER AS IT IS NOW…

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Situation in South Africa. War Material Shipped Prom London. London, May 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 9

Large quantities of shells and 1,000,000 cartridges have been shipped to Capetown…

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The Australian Town and Country Journal "Past, present, future." Saturday, May 8, 1897. The War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 18

The war between Greece and Turkey goes on, and, as far as it has gone, the Turks have been having decidedly the best of the battling. It seems to be only a question of…

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Cable Messages. South Africa. the Cape and the Transvaal. War Preparations at Pretoria. Lieutenant Elope Promoted

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 12

LONDON, April 27, 6.55 p.m.—The debate in the Cape House of Assembly on the motion submitted by Mr. P. J. Du Toit, the President of the Africander Bund,…

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Lord Salisbury on the War. Action of the Powers. a Triumph for Diplomacy. London, May 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 9

Speaking at a meeting of the Primrose League last night, Lord Salisbury, the Premier, referred to the war between Greece and Turkey, and to the action of…

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