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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
2,281 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 115
Nows has just reached London to the offect that General Woodford, the United States Minister to Spain, has taken his departure from Madrid…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The outbreak of war in any part of the world is generally pretty sure to attract volunteers from Australia. Whether the services are proffered from motives of patriotism, or of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night a "Herald" representative had an interview with Mr. F. B. Freehill, the Consul for Spain, on the present situation. Mr. Freehill entered very fully into the matter. He said he did not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reports from Key West, the headquariers of the American fleet, state, that twenty three fighting ships are anchored six miles from the shore,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Naval warfare then and now! What a contrast must there be between the coming wir and the great light of 93 years ago, when Nelson won uudying fame! Then, as now, Spain was one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One possibility of the coming war between Spain and the United States is causing considerable anxiety in Great Britain. As neither America nor Spain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colonel Bell, the American Consul in Sydney, has had a more than usually busy time during the last few weeks. Since the time when the outlook first assumed a decidedly threatening aspect,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The opening of the Cortes at Madrid yesterday by Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain, was a most brilliant and impressive ceremony. The galleries were thronged with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PRESIDENT M'Kinley has decided not to veto the resolutions of Congress concerning the independence of Cuba, but he gave the Spanish Government till Saturday to agree to withdraw from that island. If…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ADELAIDE, Saturday.—Sir Charles Todd, South Australian Postmaster-General, has arranged with the British postal authorities for telegraphic information instantly hostilities begin in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Friday, 3.18 p.m.--The Spanish Embassy at Paris is receiving large contributions to the war fund being raised on behalf of Spain…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The art of war has constantly felt the influence of the conditions of the age in which contentious have occurred. Primitive man killed his enemy with blows from a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Government has up to the present received no communication of any sort respecting the war. Mr. Young, the Minister for Works, when seen this morning, made…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A military correspondent sends the London "Daily Telegraph" a carious, not to say amusing, instance of War Office redtape, which hardly appears on the surface to be an inducement to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The quick mechanic pressed at last A little know of [?], And round the world, the round, round world…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Government and Congress of the United States have either been much divided in their opinion concerning the recognition of the independence of Cube, of else they…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →LONDON, April 19.—Notwithstanding the pressure brought to hear by president M'Kinley and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the House…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →As neither America nor Spain subscribed to the Declaration of Paris, they are entitled to seize the enemy's property under a neutral flag. This is causing great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All hope of peace is now abandoned. War is only a matter of days. Congress has ordered President M'Kinley to drive the Spaniards from Cuba. Spanish…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, April 22, 3.18 p.m.—One thousand mules which were at New Orleans, intended for shipment to Cuba, have been seized by the United States as contraband of war…
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