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The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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French Socialism. What It Stands For. Class War and Communism

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--All sections of believers in Socialism in France have become united in view of the approaching general elections…

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Plea of Guilty. Ex-soldier Dealt With

The Australian Star · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 4

A young man named David M'Bean, an ex-soldier, pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions to-day to a charge of breaking and entering a warehouse at Paddington on the…

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War to the Knife

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 4

In the luridly picturesque language of Mr. Heaghney, the secretary of the Victorian Central Executive, the decision has been arrived at to…

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New Zealand. the Freight War. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 12

It is reported that the reduced freights to be adopted in connection with the shipping war will include wool [?]d per lb, flbre and tow 10s per ton…

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War Balloons. The Kaiser Obtains £50,000 for Experiments

The World's News · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 2

The Kaiser bas turned bis attention to aertal navigation with special reference to war. His Majesty has been sparred to this offert by the announcement that the French Government…

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Soldiers Eat Each Other. Fifty, Thensand Lives Lost During a Siege

The World's News · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 15

Mr. Leland Buxton, who has fust returned to Kngland from a tour of several moaths aleug the Permian Gulf, gives a terrible aeceuat of the effocts of the siege of the rebels of [?] by…

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Daring Robbery in the Caucasus. by Disguised Soldiers. London, April 27[?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 11

Six men disguised as soldiers gave the password at the Treasury at Dushet, Transcaucasia, and having thus secured an entrance they looted the vaults, obtaining…

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Sultan's Soldiers. Concentrating Near Damascus. More British Battalions Ready. Breakers Ahead in Egypt. London, Friday, 2.50 p.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 1

Turkish troops are concentrating south of Damascus, and are fortifying Akabah, where reinforcements are expected…

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Commonwealth Defence Act. Ex-soldier Proceeded Against. Alleged Non-payment of a Fine. Defendant Discharged

The Australian Star · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 7

Yesterday at the Water Summons Court before Mr. Macfarlane, S.M., Major Reginald Selwyn Smith, the officer commanding the Australian Army Service Corps…

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The War Cloud. Dispute With Turkey. England Making Preparations London, Saturday, 6.45 a.m

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 29 April 1906 · page 1

H.M.S Minerva has been ordered to proceed to the vicinity of El Arish to make inquiries with regard to the removal of boundary marks…

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The Trained Soldier v. the Armed Citizen

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 April 1906 · page 1

ROM the highest quarter in the Commonwealth the doctrine has been laid down that under modern…

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News by Cable. the War Cloud

Evening News · Monday 30 April 1906 · page 3

lONDON, Saturday.—Great Britain is determined that Turkish troops shall withdraw from Egyptian territory in the Sinai Peninsula with out delay…

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The Egyptian War-cloud

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 1128

The cloud that has arisen on the horizon of the world's peace conies once more out of Africa, much as it was in the habit of doing in the old Roman days which…

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Japanese War Veterans. Reviewed by the Mikado

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 9

LONDON, Tuesday.--The Mikado reviewed 55,000 veterans of the Russo-Japanese war in Tokio yesterday. There was a vast display of captured…

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May Day in Paris. Considerable Uneasiness. Railways Guarded by Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 9

LONDON, Monday.--In anticipation of disturbances in connection with the May Day ("Labor" Day) celebrations, the railways and bridges in Paris, and the cartridge factory…

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Disaffected Russian Soldiery. Revolutionary Prisoners Released

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 May 1906 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--It is reported from St. Petersburg that a disciplinary battalion at Sevastopol destroyed the military prison, and released 35 of the…

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British Shipping in War Time. London, May 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 7

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman will ap-' point a committee to investigate the question of a national guarantee for British shipping in war time. '…

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Twice Wounded

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 3

Twice has your name been shouted through the dark That broods above the river's sullen flow; Twice the stern Ferryman, with lifted oars,…

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The Aftermath of War. Workless Soldiers

The Mosman Mail · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 4

Many soldiers who were Invalided out of the Army after the Boer war are now on the tramp, the casual wards of the country’s workhouses being their…

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A Zulu War Dance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 14

The war dance is numbered among the decaying ceremonies of the South African natives. By the time the little, naked kaffirs, new playing round the brown kraals and on…

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