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The wars & local soldiers, 1903

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Race War Results in America. General Attack on Negroes

The World's News · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 19

According to a telegraphic despatch from Thebes, Illinois, of April 26, an unknown negro, aged 17, was lynched there by an angry mob that afternoon for attempting to assault the…

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What Diplomatists Say. Civil War Unlikely. Probable Solution of the Situation

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Diplomatists in London do not anticipate that the revolution will be followed by civil war. They point out that King Alexander had…

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Escaping From a Boer Prison. By an Ex-Prisoner of War

The Australian Star · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 4

[?]LL the New Zealanders were in the secret, and there were a score of them in…

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From South Africa. British Soldiers Under Fire

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 7

Already the Pom-pom is trotting out of the farmhouse enclosure and the squadron of Dragoons extending on the plain beyond. The face of…

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The Servian Cabinet. a Regime of Force. Under a Devoted Soldier

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 9

During the past six months the personnel of the Servian Cabinet has been changed several times. In October, M. Velimirovitch, leader of the Neutrals, formed a Cabinet, but a…

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Bismarck's Lost War Letters

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 June 1903 · page 5

The letters which Prince Bismarck wrote to his wife during the France—German War, and which were believed to have been lost, have at last, the Berlin correspondent of…

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Russia and Japan. War Minister and Mikado. LONDON, Saturday, 4.55 a.m

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 14 June 1903 · page 1

General Karopatkin, Russian Minister for War, has arrived at Tok[?]o, Japan, where he is the guest of the Mikad[?]…

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Servia's Blood Blot Latest Cable Despatches. Murdered King and Queen Buried with Marks of Ignominy. the Bodies of Murdered Relatives and Statesmen Thrown on Top of Them. Austrian War Vessels Watching Belgrade. London, June 12

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 June 1903 · page 5

Messages received from Belgrade to-day give gruesome particulars of the burial of the victims of the Servian revolution…

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Russian War Minister. Visit to the Mikado. London, June 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 June 1903 · page 7

Lieutenant-General Kuropatkine, the Russian Minister for War, who is making a tour of the Far East, is now at Tokio, where he is the guest of the Mikado of…

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The Death of the Sovereigns. Bodies Riddled with Bullets. Thrown to the Soldiers. London, June 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 June 1903 · page 7

An autopsy of the remains of King Alexander and Queen Draga showed that the body of the former contained 30 shot wounds, and that Queen Draga received numerous shot and…

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War Contribution

The Australian Star · Tuesday 16 June 1903 · page 3

The Legislative Council, Orange River Colony, has passed the second reading of an ordinance providing for a war contribution of £5,000,000 should the future mineral…

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Orange River Colony. the War Contribution

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 June 1903 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--An ordinance providing for a war contribution of £5,000,000, to be derived from the future mineral resources of the colony, has been read a second time in the Bloemfontein…

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The Orange River Colony. the Contribution to the War

Evening News · Tuesday 16 June 1903 · page 6

LONDON. .Tune 15.—An ordinance providing for a war contribution of £5,000,000 by the Orange River Colony, should the future mineral resources of the colony justify the…

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The Orange River Colony. Provisional Contribution to the War. London, June 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 June 1903 · page 5

An ordinance providing for a war contribution of £5,000,000 by the Orange River Colony, should the future mineral resources of the colony justify the expenditure, has…

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Klng Alexander's Gift to Queen Draga. Supplied From the National War Fund. London, June 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 June 1903 · page 5

According to Servian newspapers it has now been discovered that the gift of 2,000,000 francs (£80,000) made by King Alexander to Queen Draga at the moment of their marriage…

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Address in the Assembly. Declaration of War. Charges Against the Government. Evasive Attitude on Reduction of Members. Mismanagement of Public Affairs. Motion of Censure Proposed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 June 1903 · page 8

Some preliminary business was transacted when the Assembly re-assembled at 4.30. The SPEAKER having read the Address, Mr. QUINN moved that a Select Committee be…

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A Curious Case at Darlinghurst. the Chilian Man-o'-war's Man and the Chinaman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 June 1903 · page 3

While the Chilian gunboat General Baquedan[?] was in Sydney Harbour last March, one of the sailor belonging to it named Ricardo Charia went ashore on leave of absence and became intoxicate. While in George-street North…

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South African War Medals

Evening News · Friday 19 June 1903 · page 4

Some time ago the Minister for Defence suggested to the War Office that the war medals should be issued to the later Commonwealth Horse Battalions, which did not land in South…

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Candidates for War Medals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 June 1903 · page 5

The British Secretary for War has informed Sir John Forrest that he is unable to fall in with the suggestion that Australian soldiers who landed in South Africa after May 1, 1902, should receive the…

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MR. B. R. Wise. a Burning Question. the Newspaper War. Press versus Government

The Australian Star · Friday 19 June 1903 · page 3

The Hon. B. R, Wise, State Attorney-General, last night delivered an address in the Colonnade Hall, Johnston-street, Annandale, under the auspices of the Petersham,…

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