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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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A well-attended meeting of returned soldiers representing the Second Contingent, First Australian Horse, and Citizens' Bushmen was held at the Crystal Palace Hotel last night to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, December 5.--General de Wet commences his ho[?]k "Three Years' War" by dedicating it to "My Fellow Subjects of the British Empire," and concludes it thus:--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Viscount de Kerguezec and M. Provost de Launay, a member of the French Senate, fought a duel with swords near Paris. The viscount was slightly wounded in the forearm. An article…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The new hot-air war balloon, upon the perfecting of which Mr. Bacon and his co-worker, Mr. Maskelyne, have lately been engaged, is capable (says the "World") of being inflated and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THUS a correspondent to the London "Daily Chronicle:" Shocked, and not a little sobered, the Parliamentary return issued…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →As one of the men whose reputations were made in the Boer war, Commandant de Wet is entitled to a respectful hearing, and this is accentuated by the fact that his account of what he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"I am forced to declare that the mortality in the French army is nearly four times greater than that in the German army; the number of deaths in the French army is, on an average,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--Representatives of the firm which the War Office complained against as having forwarded short-weight jam under its contract to supply the troops in South Africa,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. H. Copeland, the Agent-General for New South Wales, has written to the War Office stating that Mr. St. John Brodrick will be pleased to learn that the department's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Speaking at the Pretoria banquet, Mr. Chamberlain in said it was not intended to unduly increase taxation or to hamper a prompt and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The United States grand Jury at Omaha, Nebraska, is investigating a remarkable conspiracy by which the Government has been defrauded of enormous areas of public lands. The conspiracy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The United States Government, according to the "New York Herald," are…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →‘When campaigning,’ said an old cavalryman to the writer, ‘a man who has a trade at his fingers’ ends can make a nice thing out of his skill…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,—I am a Scotch Roman Catholic, and neither ashmed or afraid to own up to it; on the contrary, rather proud of the fact, notwithstanding that that noble and couragcous reverend [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The number of ships which will be actually ready for war in March next is as follows:— England. France. Russia. Germany. Japan. Modern Battleships......... 46 29 23 19 6…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Saturday. -- The Sheikhs, and others, left by the Turks in the Aden Hinterland are claiming the disputed territory. It is expected that Great Britain will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Replying to the comments of the "Times." upon the article in the Melbourne "Age," which expressed distrust of the proposed new naval agreement…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One of the Samoan agents of the London Missionary Society, the Rev. Walter Huckett, is at present on a visit to Sydney on a mid-term furlough. During the course of an interview yesterday with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hitherto the British have had a practical monopoly of the South African war-book production except for a fey books by American correspondents like Hillegas or Davis and by European…
Continued on Trove, page 70 →We are continually hearing of the comparatively small losses in modern war; but only now the complete returns from South Africa are available can we make any comparison between the…
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