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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
1,097 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 55
Some graphic details are to hand of the fighting with the Zulus which took place during Colonel Mackenzie's operations in Signandi's country, and in which the situation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The "Daily Telegraph" states that the Admiralty and the War Office stipulate that in future contracts for tinned meats will only be accepted from the British…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Thursday, 3.5 p.m.—Russian seamen on strike at Odessa threaten, in the event of seamen and firemen being imported from the Baltic, to blow up the foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting was held at the Australia Hotel on Friday afternoon, June 1st, to make arrangements to give a fitting reception to Miss Marie Narelle on her return to her native…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →BELLINGEN, Friday.--A serious accident occurred on Wednesday to Thomas Cordwell. He was ringbarking, when his axe caught in a vine and inflicted a fearful gash on his neck, which…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →When Spain went into her hopeless struggle with the United States, British sympathy at once ranged itself on the side of the Republic. Not that there is any national enmity between…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →There are signs of a big storm brewing in Victoria against the more glaring of the social evils. The moral sense of the community has been aroused during the past few…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →According to several Russian papers, the following anecdote, of which the hero is a well-known Cossack officer (E.), is perfectly true. During the Russo-Japanese war E. engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Most of our readers will remember the terrible riots in connection with the miners' strike in the vicinity of Lens, during the latter end of April and beginning of May, and the fact that…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →LONDON, Monday.--Colonel Mackenzie and Colonel Barker attempted to envelop 20 companies of Bambaata's and Mehlokazulu's impis in the vicinity of Mome…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A band of Terrorists at Seiziee, in Poland, attacked a burgomaster and two officials in the street. A desperate encounter ensued, during which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Monday, 2.50 p.m.—The troops encamped at Salisbury refused to ear tinned beef, and emptied the cans on Salisbury Plain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Commonwealth Minister of Defence, Senator Playford, has been reading with appreciation and admiration the lucid speech delivered by Mr. Haidane, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.--Details relating to the recent severe lighting in Natal show that the attempt, made by Colonel Mackenzie and Lieutenant-Colonel Barker to envelop the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two soldiers, whilst on patrol duty at Warsaw, Poland, were shot dead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Monday Afternoon. --The troops in garrison at Salisbury (England) refused to eat tinned beef, and emptied the cans on Salisbury' Plain…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Premature publication of war news may disclose the whole plan of campaign to an enemy. Every patriotic pressman-- as well as the ordinary man-- would welcome any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An anonymous writer in the "Fortnightly Review" has a well-reasoned article on German aggression and alms, and the consequent duty of England…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The yearly meeting of the Society of Friends passed a minute expressing an earnest wish that some substantial reduction of military and naval expenditure…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Wednesday, 3.5p.m.—The men of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) stationed at Parkhurst, refused to eat American tinned…
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