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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
2,046 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 103
Some time ago we published a letter from an Englishman in Manchuria who was engaged in business at the scene of the fighting, and who saw the commencement of hostilities. Another…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The premiums at Lloyd's are equivalent to 2 to 1 against the war terminating by May…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The war news is so scrappy and unsatisfactory that a coherent account of any one battle should be welcome. One of the best descriptions of the great encounter at…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →LONDON, January 6,3.15 p.m.—The premiums charged on insurances at Lloyd's are equivalent to odds of 2 to 1 against the war terminating by May…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Times" publishes an interesting telegram from its Vienna correspondent. The message is to the effect that on the eve of the war the Kaiser urged the Tsar to reflect before finally rejecting the terms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fifty years ago a siege was attracting as much attention in Great Britain ana Australia as that of port Arthur is to-day. Bat in 1855 the besiegers, not the besieged, were Russians…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Another shipment of copies of secret Russian Army circulars has just reached London. Some of them throw an even stronger light upon the peculiar and drastic methods which are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The fighting north of Yental started eleven days ago, and as I write, I can hear the big guns still sullenly growling at each other away west. Already you have gather…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The "Daily Telegraph" learns from its St. Petersburg correspondent that at a meeting of the Council of the Empire, presided over by the Czar, it was decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Russian Chief of Police has been fatally wounded near Warsaw. Rioters at Kharkoff fired the prisons. Six Baku strikers and a Cossack…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following translation of a letter (dated November 26), from a lady of high standing at St. Petersburg, gives a pathetic picture of life in St. Petersburg at the present…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The defence department has received a notification from the War Office disapproving of the adoption of a special pattern of pistol which was recommended by General…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Premiums at Lioyd's are equivalent to 2 to 1 against the war terminating by May…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A French account of the Japanese entry into Newchwang says: "Japanese reconnoitring parties entered at 5 in the evening. The men, little, square-built, well seated in their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Vienna correspondent of the London "Times," in a message to that journal, says that the Kaiser, on the eve of the war, urged the Czar to reflect…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After a desperate engagement with a thousand Hereros, who are in revolt in German Southwest Africa, Major Meister, at the head of a German force, captured Grossnabar. The losses…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Council of Ministers at St. Petersburg has decided that it would be inconsistent with Russia's dignity, to make peace overtures to Japan. The war must go on. That is a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The council of Ministers sitting at St. Petersburg has decided that any suggestions of peace with Japan at present would be incompatible with Russia's dignity…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday Afternoon. -- The Vienna correspondent of "The Times" says that the German Emperor on the eve of the war urged the Czar to reflect before rejecting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Vienna correspondent of the "Times" says that the German Emperor on the eve of the war urged the Czar to reflect before rejecting the terms of…
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