The First War Baloon
A cable in our columns yesterday brings the news of another fatal from a balloon in England, and the latest files report yet another balloon accident, through not a very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1907
968 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 49
Stuttgart Coneerence Socialist and Mountebank. Should Soldiers Desert? What War Might Mean in France
LONDON, Tuesday.--A violent scene took place yesterday at the Socialist Conference at Stuttgart, the principal characters being Herr Bebel (leader of the Socialist Party in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The War Against Trusts. an American Failure
LONDON, Tuesday.-- Speaking yesterday at Columbus, Ohio, Mr. W. H. Taft (United States Secretary for War, who is about to start on a tour of the world) declared that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Socialists at War. Sundered by Anti-militarism. Bitter Words at the Congress. London, Aug. 20
A violent scene between Herr Bebel, leader of the German socialists, and M. Herve, leader of the anti-militarist agitation in France, created a great sensation…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The War upon the Graziers
Covetousness is one of the besotting sins of the United Irish League. It is a very dangerous sin, for it often leads men to steal what they covet, or to compel the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Protestant in War Paint to the Editor
Sir,—Allow me to express my indignation at the unwarranted attack on your valuable paper and the principles it tries to inculcate, by the Rev. S. Varcoe Cock, at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man of War's Fast Steaming. H.m.s. Challenger Makes a Record
A remarkable steaming feat was accomplished by H.M.S. Challenger, one of the Australian cruisers, on Heads at 19.20…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Premier Defies Duties. Uncustomed Goods Seized by Force. Raid on Darling Island. Act of War or Act of Smuggling? Labour Members Enraged. Demand Mr. Carruthers's Arrest
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Carruthers in a dramatic manner asserted State rights. A quantity of wire netting had come from England by the Federal-Houlder-Shire liner Kent, and was unloaded and placed on the wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Returned Soldiers Pay. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir.—Seeing "Fair Play's" letter in your correspondence columns of to-day, re South African Imperial pay, I would be much obliged if you could find room to publish my…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Japan's War De[?]t
The heavy price which Japan has had to pay for her war with Russia is to be seen is the extraordinary growth of her national debt set out to the "Financial and Econ[?] Annual"…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →More Russian Men-of-war. Ordered From English Builders
LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The "Daily Chronicle" states that Russia has placed large orders in England for battleships, cruisers, and gunboats, and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Trying War Ball[?] at Aldershet. What Plucky Officers Will Do
EACH war ballo[?] has attached to it, on very special occasions, a parachute of the patters ordinarily used by public performers, and, as illustrating the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →British Airship May Come. War Office "Very Much Alive." a Question of Money
"Up to the present the Lebaudy airship is the only practical one we really know of for certain," said Major Baden-Powell, the president of the Aeronautical Society, when interviewed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →British Labor and Foreign Strikes. the Foreign Enlistment Act
LONDON, Friday Evening.—Mr. W. Crooks (Labor, Woolwich) has introduced into the House of Commons a Bill applying the penalties of the Foreign Enlistment Act…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Typhoid Inoculation. Successful Experiments Among British Soldiers in India
A recent number of the "Royal Army Medical Corps" contains an important article on protective inoculation agajnst typhoid fever, by Licutenant E. J. G. Luxmoore. The article…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers and Sailors Military and Naval Notes "A power whose morning drum beat, following the sun, circles the earth."--DANIEL WEBSTER
The cost of an ironclad is about £80 a ton; this includes guns and all equipments."Patriolism" in the mouths of the advocates of military drill simply means war, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Foreign Enlistment Act and Labor. London, Friday Afternoon
Mr. W. Crooks, who represents Woolwich in the Labor interests in the House of Commons, has introduced a Bill which seeks to apply the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pay Politicians or Pay Soldiers?
The assemblage or the knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter—old, gouty, fat, and feeble—is said to be a melancholy disenchantment to romantic…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Foreign Enlistment" London, Friday, 2.55 p.m
A bill has been introduced in the House of Commons under which the penalties provided by the Foreign Enlistment Act will be applied to Britishers taking the places of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Industrial War the Demand for Better Conditions Drivers, Dockers, and Telegraphists London, Sunday, 2 p.m
Another strike is reported from New York. It is the drivers in the wholesale meat trade that are "out" now, twelve hundred of them having struck work in support of a demand…
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