Died of Soldier's Heart
When the sudden deaths of a great number of soldiers were being inquired into it was given in evidence that such men have fallen victims to a peculiar form of heart…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1904
3,985 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 200
The Latest Cable News. Peace Talk a Blind Korea Must Soon Hear the Clash of War. Russian Troops Massed on the Frontier. Fall of Stocks in London. Japanese Man-o'-war. Stops Russian Steamer. Fires Across Her Bows. Korea's Fate. Significant Russian Movement. Troops Masking for Attack. London, January 29
A Russian military party have crossed the Yalu River into Korean territory. The Russian authorities are projecting a telegraph line from the mouth of…
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Ever since last October, when Russia, according to her treaty obligation, should have evacuated Manchuria, the world has been kept in a stale of painful apprehension…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News by Cable. [Copyright.] The Impending War. Clearing the Siberian Railway. for Troops and Stores
LONDON, January 31, 2 p.m.—Merchandise traffic on the Trans-Siberian Railway will be suspended after February 2, in order to leave the line free for the transport of troops and military…
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The West Surrey Coroner held an inquest at Camberley on the body of Private William Benson, of the Royal Lancashire Regiment, and a native of Manchester, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The British War Office. Before the War
LONDON. February 1, 3.10 p.m.—The report of the select committee on War Office reform incidentally acquits the Government of remissness prior to the late war, declaring that it…
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Changes of a remarkable nature are to be effected in the War Office. By no stretch of imagination are they to be regarded as premature. No fact was brought out more…
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Startling changes are promised in the time-honored system, or want of system, in British military administration, by which Great Britain, by luck and pluck, has…
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In the event of war Yuan-shi-kal, the supreme commander of the Chinese forces, will place 40,000 troops on the borders of Manchuria…
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Merchandise traffic on the Trans-Siberian railway will be suspended after February 2, in order to leave the line free for the transport of troops and military…
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The commission that was appointed to inquire into the conduct of the war in South Africa incidentally, acquits the Governments of any remissness in its management of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News by Cable. [Copyright.] War Preparations. Large Purchases of Beef. 13,000,Ooolb. From America. a Japanese Demand. "Childish Simplicity of a Savag[?]natio"
LONDON, February 1. 3.10 p.m.—Altogether Japan has ordered 7,000,000lb of American mess corned beef and Russia 6,000,0001b. The Russian newspapers declare that Japan…
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LONDON, February 2, 2.40 p.m.—Military circles at home, in the United States, and on the Continent, comment favourably upon the scheme for the re-organisation of the War…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Army Reform. the Government and the War. Acquitted of Remissness
LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The War Office incidentally acquits the Government of remissness in the late war, declaring that it possessed no adequate means for…
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The concensus of messages which have been received from St. Petersburg, Tokio, and Port Arthur, is (hat the Russian reply to Japan's irreducible minimum, will be unsatisfactory to Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 58 →Army Beporm. South African War. Government Acquitted of Remissness. London, Feb. 1
The committee appointed to advise as to the creation of a Board for the administrative business of the War Office, and as to the consequential, changes thereby…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Far East. Japan's Alleged Demands. for War Compensation. Ridiculed by Russian Newspapers
LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Russian newspapers declare that Japan demands £7,200.000 compensation for war expenses. They ridicule this "childish simplicity of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →News by Cable. [Copyright.] The Balkans. Bulgaria Buying War Material. Macedonian Committees Active. Revolt in the Spring
LONDON, February 1, 2.40 p.m.—The Porte has informed Austria and Russia that Bulgaria has ordered from Paris 100,000,000 cartridges and much smokeless powder…
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There is nothing fresh to record this afternoon with regard to the situation in the Far East. The situation remains in statu quo. At the…
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The soldiers' memorial in the Parramatta Park is now nearing completion, and arrangements will shortly be made for the unveiling ceremony, which is to be performed by Lieutenant-Colonel Burns…
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