War News by Flashlight
Members of the Land's End Club, who spend their week-ends on the cliffs all the year round, have just added to their numerous amusements by signalling to the Wolf and Longships…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1905
2,046 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 103
A Year of the War
A retrospect of the principal features of the Russo-Japanese War, which, on Tuesday next, will have lasted one year, is published in this issue, together with a map showing the country…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Long Forgotten War. Campaign in Tasmania
The history of Australasia has not in the main been a drum and trumpet one. Our conflicts have chiefly been with the drought and the wilderness, the dingo and the rabbit, and floods…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The War. Kuropatkin "Misled." Russian Generals at Variance
LONDON, February 3, 2.50 p.m.—Chinese statements that the Japanese were not prepared to resist misled the Russians in their recent attack upon General Oku's forces…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Two Navies. Japan. Russia. at the Beginning of the War
AT THE PRESENT TIME. In this sketch is shown the strength of the two navies in the Far East at the beginning of the war, and their present condition. When the war began the Russians had an advantage of one in battleships -- seven as against six -- but Japan's numerical strength in cruisers gave her the advantage in tonnage. The difference in the respective tonnages speaks for itself. The loss to the Russian Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The War. Hun-ho Fighting. Bussians' Strategical Loss. Regiments Annihilated. London, Feb. 3
Field-Marshal Oyama reports that the Japanses casualties in the recent fighting in the region of the Hun-ho were seven thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Profits of War. Krupps Make a Tremendous Sum on Their Year's Work
The first balance-sheet of the firm of Friedrich Krupp, Limited, shows a gross profit on the year's working of just a million pounds sterling. Rather more than half this sum goes to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Revolt in Russia. Strikers Deported. Maxim Gorki Released. Important Reforms Outlined. Disturbances in Poland. Hundreds Killed and Wounded. Another Students Demonstration. Interview with Tolsto[?]
LONDON, Friday. -- General Trepoff, the new Dictator in St. Petersburg, is compelling 1500 of the Putiloff strikers to tramp in groups to distant villages for refusing to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The War. the Japanese Success. Upsets Russian Plans. Russian Regiments Annihilated. Marshal Oyama's Report. Seven Thousand Japanese Casualties
LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- The capture by the Japanese of important outposts on General Kuropatkin's right renders it necessary to alter the entire dispositions of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cigarettes Spoil Soldiers
Excessive cigarette smoking led to the rejection of a number of young soldiers at a medical inspection at the Western Heights Barracks, Dover, recently…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Family of Soldiers
Some highly interesting records of military service are published by an English exchange. One record, is worthy of more than passing note. The father is W. Chapman,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Year of War. the Russo-japanese Conflict. Japan's Gains. -- Russia's Losses. the Position at a Glance. "A Nine Days' Wonder."
Tuesday will be the anniversary of the firing of the first shot in the tremendous struggle raging in the Far East between Russia and Japan. A retrospect is all in favor of Japan -- indeed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tug-of-war
There was a good, attendance to witness the tug-of-war at the Hotel Millchorpe on Saturday, the final being very exciting. The winners turned, up in Dan Minchan and P. McEnroe, who beat two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Manchuria. Russian Barbarity. Wounded Japanese Mutilated. London, Saturday, 4.55 a.m
Field-Marshal Oyama reports that a picket of 29 men was surrounded at Huanglashatzu on January 26. The picket surrendered after the majority…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Latest Cable News Revolt in Russia. Czar and the Workers. Audience Regarded with Utmost Contempt. Imprisoned Soldiers Escape—Sailors Sentenced to Death—Rioting and Railway Wrecking. LONDON, Friday Afternoon
The St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Daily News" says that educated Liberals regard the Czar's audience with the workers of St. Petersburg with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Week's Miscellany: a Compilation of the News of the World. Russo-jap War. Great Battle on the Hun-ho. Terrible Losses on Both Sides—Russian Casualties about 40,000, Japs 7000—Kuropatkin Injured
GREAT BATTLE ON THE HUN-HO—TREMENDOUS LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES. Severe fighting took place along the line of the Hun-ho on Saturday, Saturday night, and Sunday between the armies of General Kuronatkin and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Russian Barbarity. Wounded Soldiers Mutilated
LONDON, Saturday.--Marshal Oyama reports that a Japanese picket numbering 29 was surrounded at Huang-la-sha-tsu on January 26, and surrendered after the majority…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Seat of War[?]
Hoi-kou-tai, the scene of one of the mest sanguinary battles of the campaign, is about eight miles north-north-west of Liao-yang. This important town is 40 miles from Mukden, and the principal fighting took place a little over 30 miles from that centre. The Japanese have extended their left well out to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The War. Matters in Manchuria. Blowing Up the Railway
LONDON, February 5, 2 p.m.—General Kuropatkin reports that a Russian patrol has blown up the railway five miles south of Liao-yang…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lion and Bear. "Anxiety, but Not Fear." England Ready for War. a Significant Statement. LONDON, Sunday, 2.40 p.m
Mr. Arthur H. Lee, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at Eastleigh yesterday, declared that Great Britain was compelled to look upon the North Sea affair with more…
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