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The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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A Soldier's Wife. Petition in Divorce. Her Husband in South Africa

The Australian Star · Tuesday 24 July 1906 · page 5

Mr. Justice Simpson, in the Divorce Court to-day, delivered judgment in the suit Naughten v. Naughten. The petitioner, Amy Charlotte Naughten, a…

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War a Curse

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 25 July 1906 · page 59

A woman once married stood with her second husband beside the grave of her first. "Here," she murmured, "a hero lies. You would not be my husband to-day, Jack, had…

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New Zealand Freight War

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 25 July 1906 · page 9

The cut freights in connection with New Zealand shipping, have attracted a good deal of attention for some time past, and there has been much…

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The War[?]ha, for Calcutta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 July 1906 · page 10

The British India S.N. Company s steamer Wardha, which arrived here yesterday from Newcastle via Melbourne, will be despatched at 10 o'clock to-morrow merning by messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co., Ltd., from…

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The Future of Japan. Another War with Russia Expected

Evening News · Wednesday 25 July 1906 · page 5

FREMANTLE, Wednesday.—Captain C. Ward Jackson, late 11th Hussars, who has been travelling with Lord Ronaldshay through Japan, was interviewed at Fremantle respecting…

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The Douma's Reply. to the Czar's Manifesto. the Inflexible Will of the People. Steadfast in Refusal. Not One Kopeck to the Throne. Not a Soldier to the Army

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 July 1906 · page 9

LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Two hundred members of the Russian Douma, principally belonging to the Labor Party and Poles, met at Viborg (Finland) on Sunday,…

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Soldiers at School. N.S.W. Instructional Staff Annual Course

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 25 July 1906 · page 19

Members of the Instructional Staff of the New South Wales military forces are at present undergong a special course of instruction at Victoria Barracks, Sydney. It is very…

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Abolition of Military Canteens. Strong Expressions at the Barracks. Robbing the Soldier of His Home

Evening News · Friday 27 July 1906 · page 3

The Bill providing for the abolition of liquor [?] in barracks throughout the Common-wealth is being discussed very freely in military circles, from the latest-joined recruit of…

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Transvaal War History

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 4

The fourth valumne of "The Times" History of the War in South Africa has now been published, and while the events that it narrates are not of so much military interest as those in…

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Current Literature. the South African War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 4

The fourth volume of the "Times History of the War in South Africa, 1809-1902" (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.), has to do with all that happened between Lord Roberts'…

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A War Story

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 July 1906 · page 1

During the South African War, when the Transvaal and Orange Free State railways, were under military control, a certain commanding officer, possessed of an…

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German Soldiers Mutiny in Africa

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 July 1906 · page 5

The Socialist organ, "Vorwarts," of Berlin, states that, according to a number of letters from soldiers in German South-West Africa, which have been placed at its…

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Murder Trial. Loud Cheers for a Soldier's Acquittal. Victim a Blackmailer. London, June 22

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 July 1906 · page 10

Extraordinary scenes were witnessed at the close of the trial, which ended in an acquittal, at Northampton yesterday of Samuel Steele, a young private in the 7th…

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Echoes of War

Evening News · Monday 30 July 1906 · page 2

The following paragraphs taken from the London "Observer', of May, 1806, bring back memories of the great struggle with France. The "carcasses" referred to in the first paragraph were…

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Playing with a Revolver. a Boy Wounded

Evening News · Tuesday 31 July 1906 · page 4

Roy Rasmussen, a l3-year-old son of Herr Rasmussen, herbalist, of George-street and Elizabeth -street, met with a painful accident on Monday evening. It appeared he picked up a…

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South African War Medals

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 July 1906 · page 5
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Yesterday's "District Orders" contain the following notification from the officer commanding the Discharge Depot at Capetown, with reference to applications for the King's South…

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Australian Mail Contract. a War of Rates Probable

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 July 1906 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The "Standard"''states that the prospect of a rate cutting war among the steamship companies is being discussed, owing to the Australian…

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Japanese Man-of-war Scandal. One Officer Attacks Another

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 July 1906 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Captain Ishikawa of the Japanese cruiser Itsukushima, While at Singapore returning from the Australian cruise of the squadron, was…

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Spare the Wounded Horse

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 1 August 1906 · page 6

An American paper says many a frond horse is done away with before it is certain how far it may be injured in an accident. Shade On, a great…

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