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The wars & local soldiers, 1907

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Returned Soldiers' Pay. the Commissioner's Findings

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 May 1907 · page 7

Mr. Wilshire, S.M., who was appointed a commissioner to inquire into the claims of certain members of the New South Wales contingents in South Africa, has now furnished his report…

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The Honors of War

Evening News · Thursday 23 May 1907 · page 4

During the proceedings at Tuesday's meeting of the Liverpool Municipal Council the Mayor and an alderman had a discussion which led to the former calling in the aid of a policeman,…

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Lynching Party Surprised. Fired on by Negroes. One Killed and Four Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 May 1907 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A lynching affray is reported from Georgia (U.S.A.). A negro named Flem. Padgett was suspected of having committed an…

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The Fruit Fly War. Mr. Froggatt May Investigate

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 May 1907 · page 13

Mr. Swinburne, Victorian minister fur agriculture, replying to a deputation ol fruit glowers who asked him to totally prohibit the importation of fruit…

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The Art of War. Lecture by General Gordon, C.b

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 May 1907 · page 3

Brigadier-General Gordon, C.B., lectured to a large gathering of officers at the United Service Institute last night, on "The Practical and Theoretical Instruction of Officers in the Art of…

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The Cost of, War

The Methodist · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 11

What a deadly foe sin is to the temporal happiness of mankind we all know, and yet know only imperfectly. If the cost of sin—measuring the cost only by the wrecked happiness and darkened lives…

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Dire Prophecy. Dr. Reich's Startling War Predictions

The World's News · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 2

According to Dr. Emil Reich, the eminent lecturer, author, and historian, the European outlook is of the very gloomiest description. In the course of a lecture at the Polytechnic…

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The Art of War. Lecture by General Gordon

Evening News · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 5

Brigadier-General Gordon. C.B., the State Commandant, delivered a lecture on Thursday, at United Service Institute, on "The Practical and Theoretical Instruction of Officers in the…

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The Art of War Lecture by General Gordon Suggestion by Colonel Foster

The Australian Star · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 8

Colonel Ranclaud presided at a meeting of the United Service institution of N.S.W. on Thursday night, at the rooms in Queen's square, when a lecture was delivered by…

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Soldiers and Sailors Military and Naval Notes a power whose morning-drum beat, following the sun, circles the earth." --Daniel Webster

The Australian Star · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 11

For the future the work of preparing the histories of naval and military operations will be taken out of the hands of the Admiralty and War Office and placed under the…

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SOLDIERS v. POLITICIANS

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 May 1907 · page 11

Australia has proportionately the biggest army of professional politicians and the smallest army of professional soldiers of any country in the world. Yet…

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Returned Soldiers' Pay. Commissioner's Report

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 May 1907 · page 12

The report of Mr. Wilshire, S.M., who was appointed a Royal Commissioner to inquire into the claims of certain members of the New South Wales contingents in South Africa, deals with 353…

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Peasant War in Koumania

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 May 1907 · page 8

Details reaching Sofia of the oncounter between the peasant army and the troops at Galatz (says a Router message in a London contemporary), show that the fighting…

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Mr. Bent's Address to Children. the Horrors of War. London, May 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 May 1907 · page 7

Addressing 4000 scholars at Ealing on Empire Day, Mr. T. Bent, Premier of Victoria, in referring to the enthusiastic demonstration in General Botha's honour…

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Mail Train Mystery. Wounded Passenger Found by the Line

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 May 1907 · page 5

ALBURY, Monday.--On the arrival of the express from Sydney this morning, Mr. Henry Batty, a first-class passenger, was reported to be missing, and on search being made, was…

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Late Cable News. Received This Morning. An Injured Nihilist. Wounded by His Own Bomb. Intended for Russian Grand Dukes

Evening News · Tuesday 28 May 1907 · page 4

LONDON, Monday Evening.—Petroff, a Russian Nihilist, entered a Paris hospital to be treated for wounds caused by a bomb explosion…

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A Trophy of War. Part 1

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 29 May 1907 · page 1387

The guns that swept the long, straight stretch of the Capuan Road had all been silenced, their gunners having failed to weather a whirlwind of Chasseurs a Cheval. The…

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"A Righteous War."

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 30 May 1907 · page 19

The celebration of the Feast of St. Jingo brought forth to light a number of those absurd persons who some years ago used to assort so vehemently their belief in the…

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Kaiser's Hand in a War

Evening News · Thursday 30 May 1907 · page 5

An interesting sidelight on the Russo-Japanese War was recently thrown by a Nice correspondent. The Kaiser Wilhelm, when the Germans…

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British Soldiers From Tntita

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 May 1907 · page 4

In view of the proposal made by the Queensland Government at the Premiers' Conference regarding the establishment of an agency in India to supply information to time-expired…

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