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2,046 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 103
To-day our cables tell us that the Japanese are closing in on Kuropatkin from south, east, and west, and they threaten to get across his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →From latest accounts we learn that the issue of the great battle now proceeding in Manchuria is still in doubt, but the cable is wholly wrong in stating that Russia's only…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Peuter's correspondent at Moukden telegraphs that the Japanese continue their encircling movement. One of their divisions is extended further in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Tuesday.--All traffic on the Trans-Baikal line--the eastern section of the Trans-Siberian--has been suspended for three days. The railway strike at Chita,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reports from Japanese sources state that General Kuropatkin has commenced to retreat, and that his position is critical. St…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Published cables on the war say:—There is every indication that the enveloping movement of the Japanese will be a success. It is reported that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday's cables seem to indicate that the scales Of victory in the Far East, which have been trembling in the balance for the last few days, have at last definitely tipped over to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A few further particulars regarding the signal victory scored by the Japanese over the Russians are embodied in the following…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The losses of London underwriters on Vladivostock war risks amount to £1,360,000. The war insurances on the Eidsvold,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For the next few days the war maps -- so far as they purport, to show the exact positions of the opposing armies in Manchuria -- will require very frequent revision. New that General…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Natural curiosity and a sort of universal sporting instinct prompt men to speculate on the unknown and thus account for the average prediction. The future, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two well-known swordsmen, Mr Georges Breittmayer and M. Ar[?] Lusclez, fought a duel of an unusually serious character on December 81st. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following cable messages were received yesterday by Mr. Iwasaki, Acting-Counsul-General for Japan from Baron Komuar, the Japanese Foreign Minister: --…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Friday. -- Marshal Oyama reports that the whole district westward of the railway and southward of the Hun-ho is in Japanese hands…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →What is said to be the true story of Lord Fitzwrilliam's treasure-bunting expedition to Cocos Island, from which the earl has just returned to England, is told in a telegram from…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Russian laborers are in this picture shown at work after the slaughter of Red Sunday erecting a barricade in one of the streets in Vassili Ostroff,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The following cable was also received:- "The following report was received from Field-Marshal Oyama on the morning of the 9th inst:—…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The following cable was yesterday received by Mr. K. Iwasaki, Consul-General for Japan, in Sydney:—"The following report was received on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Russian retreat by way of the main road from Mukden to Tieling is barred, and the only road open to General Kaulbars and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The same writer gives the following account of a meeting between the French officers and a company of block damsels whose escorts had, for the time, left them…
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