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The wars & local soldiers, 1905

2,046 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 103

Military Dinner. Speech by Minister for Defence. the Day of Parsimony Over. Citizen Soldiery Must Be Encouraged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 6

Colonel James Burns, Brigadier of the 1st Mounted Brigade, gave a dinner last evening, at Baumann's Cafe, Pitt-street, to BrigadierGeneral J. M. Gordon, C.B., the State…

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Russia. Soldiers Conspire. Against Active Service. London, March 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 5

Five soldiers, who were leaders in a military conspiracy in Russia to avoid going to the front in Manchuria, have been executed in the Government of Grodno…

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The War. Capture of Tie-ltng. Japan's Rapid Movements, Wide Flanking Movement. Peace Prospects. France's Monetary Pressure. London, March 16,11.5 a.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 5

Beuter's correspondent at Tokio reports that the Japanese at midnight on Wednesday occupied Tie-ling, upon which the Russians had…

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Japan's Wonderful War Successes

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 6

Port Arthur victories by the attacking Japs, are being daily repeated in the interior against Russia's main army under K…

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Russia's Internal Troubles. Horrible Cossack Atrocities. Wounded Thrown Into Furnaces

Evening News · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 4

LONDON, Friday, 2.45 p.m.—Seventeen workmen at the Katherine Works at Sasnovitch were killed and wounded by volleys fired by the military…

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"War Practically Over." London, Friday, 4.40 a.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 11

The highest Russian officials in Poland consider that the war is practically over. It is pointed out that Russia is without leaders, generals, guns, or money, while it…

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Literature. Some New Books. Mr. Frederic Villiers on the War

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 4

Mr. Frederic Villiers is a war-artist and a war correspondent afterwards. His name is well Known to the newspaper-reading public, for he has witnessed most ol the wars of the world…

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A Sensational Article. by a Russian Prince. "Hopeless to Continue the War."

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 9

LONDON, Friday. -- Prince Mestchorski has contributed a remarkable article to the "Grashdanin" (the "Citizen"), a St. Petersburg weekly paper, insisting that "since it…

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War Practically Over. Russian Officials' Declaration. No Generals, No Guns, No Money

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 11

Prince Mestchorski has contributed a remarkable article to "Grazhdanin" ("The Citizen"), a weekly newspaper, of St. Petersburg. In this article Prince…

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Naval and Military Sports. Ascent of a War Balloon. Fierce Miniature Rattle

Auburn News and Granville Electorate Gazetteer · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 1

A most attractive programme drew enormus crowds to the Agricultural Grounds on the 7th and 8th January and also on the 12th, when…

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A Remarkable Article. "Hopeless to Continue the War." LONDON, Friday, 4.40 a.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 11

Prince Mestchorski has written a remarkable article, in which he insists that since it is hopeless to continue the war successfully, it will be better to conclude it, thereby…

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Germany and the War. Charge Against Rozhjestvenski. the Chancellor in Exp[?]anation. No Intention of Interfering

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 9

LONDON, Friday. -- Count von Bulow, the German, Imperial Chancellor, speaking in the Reichstag, said he was unaware that Admiral Rozhjestvenski, in charge of the…

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British Piety. Apropos of an incident in the Russo-Japanese war, a writer in a London journal says:—

The World's News · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 2

The only parallel Instance of British piety I can recall at the moment is that of a gunner whom the lieutenant of the Revenge, just before the Battle of Trafalgar, found on his knees…

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The Story of the Blacks, The Aboriginals of Australia Chapter Xvii. the War of Extermination in Van Diemen's Land

Nepean Times · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 8

Well had it been for the Tasmanian trib[?] if the Europeans with whom they came in contact subsequently, or even a small proportion of them, had been possessed of the…

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A Boer War Scandal. Jam Sent for the Troops. Alleged to Have Been, Short-weight. Contracts Made in Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 9

LONDON, Friday. -- Mr. T. J. Macnamara, Liberal member for Camberwell North, asked, in the House of Commons yesterday, the names of the contractors who supplied…

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Soldiers Who First Fired on the Strikers

The World's News · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 21

A squadron of the 7th Uhlans, the favorite regiment of the Czar. The Uhlans formed part of the large number of troops who were drawn up to oppose the march of the demonstrators to the Winter Palace, and they were the first troops to fire on the strikers on the day of the St. Petersburg massacre, January 22, or Red Sunday…

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Australian Jam for Soldiers. Alleged Short Weight. London, March 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 11

Mr. J. T. Macnamara (Liberal), in the House of Commons last night, asked the Secretary of State for War the names of contractors who, during the war in South…

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Military Affairs. Encouraging the Citizen Soldier

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 1

When the Federal Minister for Defence it down that the citizen soldiers must be encouraged he presumably had in his mind reservists, as well as the other…

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The War. Recall of Kuropatkin. Linievitch Succeeds. Flight From Tie-ling. Japanese in Hot Pursuit. Czar's Armies Leaderless. London, March 17, 12.45 p.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 11

General Kuropatkin, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian troops in Manchuria, has been recalled to St. Petersburg. General…

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"Times' Morrison's War."

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 March 1905 · page 11

One of the inevitable string of Port Arthur siege books is entitled "A Secret Agent In Port Arthur," the writer being Mr. Wm. Greener, a man having a wide acquaintance…

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