War Office Reform
LONDON, Thursday.--The War Office Reorganisation Committee has held its two first meetings at Portsmouth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1904
3,985 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 200
New Zealand. Extraordinary Shooting Case. Two Men Wounded. Auckland
To-day Walter Bracewell, an ex-engine-driver, came out of the Britomart Hotel and fired a revolver at Scaulan, an elderly man, who was standing on the footpath, shooting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Office Reorganisation. London, Dec. 31
The first two meetings of the War Office Reorganisation Committee (Lord Esher Admiral Sir J. A. Fisher, and Colonel Sir G. S. Clarke) have been held at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sinews of War. Financial Position of Japan
japan has so recently sprung into the front rank of nations that detailed statements of her financial position have not yet found their way into the standard statistical works, but from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another War Cloud. on the American Horizon
LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Owing to Colombia placing troops within striking distance of Panama, the United States forces on the coast have been ordered to prepare for service…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russia Preparing for War. Manchurian Reinforcements. London, Dec. 30
Russia is pushing forward her Field Medical columns. The Russian troops in Manchuria are continually being reinforced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fiscal Reform. The Late Lord Salisbury. Favoured Fiscal War
The Hon. Evelyn Cecil writes to the London, "Daily Telegraph," under date November 23, on the question of fiscal reform, and the views held by the late Lord Salisbury on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Russian Naval Authority. Averse to War at Present. London, Dec. 30
The Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, who is a high naval authority, has hastened from the Crimea to St. Petersburg. It is understood that he is averse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Cloud. Mobilisation of Japanese Troops. the Prelude to an Ultimatum. Russian Cruisers Re-called. London
Japan's mobilisation of her troops is interpreted on the Continent as a prelude to the issue of an ultimatum to Russia if the latter rejects the minimum demands submitted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Cloud. in the Far East. Japan Must Fight. If Demands Not Accepted. Enforcing Diplomacy. London, Dec. 31
The "Lokal Anzeiger," of Berlin, announces that Japan has informed the Powers that the present situation in regard to her relations with Russia cannot be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Children's Page. Old Soldier
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Continued on Trove, page 24 →War Office "Quackery."
"Never in all my experience," says-Admiral J. O. R. Colomb in a letter to "The Times," "have I known professional jealousies and personal ambitipns to poison the atmosphere of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The War of Freights. London, Jan. 1
The mail steamers have reduced the freights to Australia to 35s per ton fine and to 50s per ton rough measurement A telegram from Armidale, published in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Christmas Day Aboard a Man-0'-war
ELL, old chap, how did yon spend your Christmas?" "Just all right I…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Table Talk of War. Lighter Side of Lord Wolseley's Book
Tremendous interest is being taken in "The Story of a Soldier's Life," by Lord Wolseley. Apart from his criticism of the British War. Office and its general unreadiness, the i book has…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, January 2, 1904. the War—and After
Whilst it may be that the despatch of those 5000 Japanese troops to Korea, of which our cables this morning inform us, has really decided, the question of peace…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Cloud. Russian Reinforcements. En Route for Port Arthur. a Report Contradicted London
The report that the Russian cruiser Kazana had been recalled owing to the fear that she might be captured is contradicted. The vessel has passed through the Suez…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Real Soldiers
A provincial theatrical manager, during the "shearsal of a military drama, entered the theatre one day and saw his stage-manager directing the "supers"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Soldier From South Africa. The following amusing story is told by Mr. Alfred, S. Freeman in a recent issue of the "Regiment":—
Upon one occasion our column was encamped upon the banks of the Vaal River, Schoeman's Drift, and the day being- oppressively warm, a number of the men of our battery…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Soldiers' Memorial
A meeting of the Committee of the Soldiers' Memorial effort was held in the Council Chamber on Monday evening. Present: Mr. W. W. Bodenham (chair…
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