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The wars & local soldiers, 1907

968 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 49

Gossip War Against the Trusts

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 3

This is just about the giddiest old world that ever existed. It couldn't be much funnier and continue to exist! The people in this world are so…

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Adventure in a War-balloon Engineer Officers Missing

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 13

LONDON, Friday. -- A war-balloon, containing Lieutenants W. T. M'Cliutock Caulfeild and C. H. Leak, of the Royal Engineers, both of whom are skilled aeronauts,…

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War Disaster Echo. Lieutenant Whose Life Was Saved by Burnaby

The World's News · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 17

Nottingham Corporation has in its employ in a lowly capacity a man who was once a lieutenant. Mr. William John Lee Baker 20 years ago was Lieutenant John Lee, serving…

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First Battle Between Modern Battleships a Reminiscence of the Russo- Japanese War

The Australian Star · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 1

The Tsarevitch, one of the Russian warships which put into Portsmouth last month, and took part in the first battle between modern [?]s and the romance and…

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

The Australian Star · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 11

Soldiers in Mary Hill Barracks, Glasgow, are to be given a series of demonstrations [?] the mechanism of motor-cars. Mr. R. B. Haldane's speeches on army…

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Public Servants As Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 12

Frequently during the last two years notice has been taken of the difficulty experienced by members of the Public Service in attending military training. In connection with the last…

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Returned Soldiers' Claims

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 12

No action has yet been taken with reference to Mr. Wilshire's report regarding payments to returned soldiers. The Acting Premier, Mr. Wade, says the matter will have to await the…

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Cost of War in Blood. Imperial Casualty List During Six Years

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 June 1907 · page 12

The cost in the blood of our soldiers and sailors of six years of Imperial wars, mostly very minor affairs, is given in a return which Mr. Haldane has just had…

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Germany's Queer "Nerves." War Scare Postpones Exposition in Berlin. Strange Alarms. Berlin, April 24

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 June 1907 · page 12

The prospect of a European war has caused the project of a world's fair for Berlin in 1913 to be abandoned. This alarming announcement, emanating…

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The Jordan Lectures. Evolution and War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1907 · page 4

The largest attendance yet recorded for the Jordan lectures filled the great hall of the University last night when Professor David Starr Jordan spoke on…

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The Human Harvest. Effect of War. Professor Jordan's Lectures

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 June 1907 · page 7

Prefacing his lecture at the Sydney, University inst night with a few remarks on the subject of "Evolution,'' Professor Jordan observed that we did not know absolutely that…

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Fighting in Morocco the Pretender's Troops on Top Sultan's Soldiers Have a Bad Time London, Monday, 3.15 p.m

The Australian Star · Tuesday 4 June 1907 · page 1

According to Paris newspapers, there has been some heavy fighting in Morocco between the forces of the forces and those of the Pretender…

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Famous War Horses

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 5 June 1907 · page 1467

Relative to a couple of the most famous war horses the world has known—famous from the fact of their being identified with Wellington and Napoleon at a most critical period of the world's history—General…

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A Trophy of War. Part Vi

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 5 June 1907 · page 1451

Marcel Rey stood in the convent parlour, a martial and incongruous figure. Five minutes' waiting inside those whitewashed walls had turned his impatience into fury, which…

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The Russo-japanese War

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 June 1907 · page 6

In his lecture on Japan last night. Dr. Jordan threw some strilkng sidelights on the methods adopted by Japan to prepare herself for the war with Russia. Of late years every nation…

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The Next War. When America Strikes Japan? the Coming Struggle

The Catholic Press · Thursday 6 June 1907 · page 6

Is Japan preparing, for a war with the United States? This startling question forms the subject of an article published in an influential…

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Marksmanship in Battle Is It Valueless? a Reply to Colonel Foster. Eminent Soldiers Say "No." N.r.a. Takes Action

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 June 1907 · page 7

The council of the National Riffe Association is not disposed to remain silent with regard to the nrticle recently published by Colonel Foster depreeinting the battle value…

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War Office Tenders

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 17

The British War Office is inviting tenders until September 16 for 300,000 1lb. tins of preserved beef and mutton, and 150,000 2lb. tins…

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To Revolutionise War. Torpedoes Fired by Hertzian Waves

The World's News · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 2

Experiments, with reported satisfactory results, were made at Cartagena with the explosion of fixed torpedoes at a distance by means of Hertzian waves. The apparatus is the…

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An Amusing Breach of Promise Case. Soldier and Actress

The World's News · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 16

MISS ROSA PHILIP KEYS, a pretty actress, whose stage name is Rosa Sullivan, was…

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