War to be Waged in the Air. French Government Active
The French Government has secured the deadliest engine of war in the world. It is an airship. With it the French can wage a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1907
968 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 49
Russo-japanese War. Kuropatkin's History. Amazing Revelations. London, Feb. 15
General Kuropatkin's history of the Russo-Japanese war was published in December, but the Russian Government immediately suppressed it…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Great Soldier a Pauper. Lord Wolseley Becomes Insolvent
Field Marshall Viscount Wolseley, the hero of Tel-ol-Kebir and a hundred other rights, whom a grateful country rewarded with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Eyes of Terror. a Story of an American Soldier in the Cuban Jungle
BARTH disappeared after the battle of San Juan-hill. He was posted as missing, as his body was not found among those who either twisted…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Soldiers and Sailors Military and Naval Notes "A power whose morning-drum beat, following the sun, circles the earth." --Daniel Webster
The quick-firing gun practice report for 1990 shows great improvement. The War Office is considering an improved pattern of float in crossing rivers, and its…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Famous War Correspondent Dead
The death is announced of Sir William Russell, LL.D., the famous "Times" war correspondent, in the [?]th year of his age. He first went to the Danish War in 1850, and then was through the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Kuropatkin's History of the War
General Kuropatkin's history of the Russo-Japanese war was published in December but the Russian Government immediately suppressed it. The history contains amazing revelations of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Thirty-fourth Year of a Dutch War. the Hague, December 31
The War in the Dutch East Indies, enters on its thirty-fourth year to-morrow. Telegrams from Celebes announce that the Rajah of Goa, one of the most active…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Making of Soldiers
It must have been the exigencies of politics which caused our new Minister of Defence to try to explain away his assertion that "Australian citizen…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Electric Train Disaster. Fifty Killed and Many Wounded High Speed and Spreading Rails
LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--An electric train on the New York Central line fell over an embankment at Bronx Park. The wrecked cars caught fire, and there were 50…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reciprosity in Soldiers
The War Office favors a system of Imperial reciprocity in soldiers, but Australia apparently does not. About 150 men of the recently-disbanded 3rd Battalion of the Manchester…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers' Pay. to the Editor
Sir,--When is this farce going to end? Mr. .Wilshire, we are told, is to sit shortly to try the claims of those unfortunate members of the Second Contingent who have not yet been paid the money which has been the subject…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →That Welcome Home. The Missing Ventura
Up to the last moment on Monday, preparations went on in Parramatta for the continental which it was intended to hold as a welcome to the returning parish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Invention
Lieut. Medway, of the Tasmanian Defence Forces, has left for England with a telephonic invention which he will take to the War Office. It is said to be a simple and portable…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War on Rats Deputation to the Premier a Representative Gathering
As an outcome of a public meeting held in the Town Hall last Thursday, the Lord Mayor (Ald. Hughes) yesterday introduced to the Premier a deputation on the subject…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On the Land. Farm and Station. Settlement in Queensland. War Between Agents
A few months ago comment appeared in these columns on Queensland's policy of settling her Crown lands through the medium of agents. The dangers and weaknesses of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Returned Soldiers. to the Editor
Sir,--The returned soldiers should be very grateful to you for keeping them well posted in regard to the back pay due to them, and for the interest you have displayed in having the money paid…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →"League of Sportsmen." Its Aims and Objects. Waging War with the Wowsers. Speeches at the Atheneum. a Rousing Meeting. the Victorian Movement
Had the same life been infused into the anti-wowser movement, few months ago, as pervaded the inaugural meeting of the Victorian League of Sportsmen on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strange Weapons. Military Engines of the Middle Ages. the Dogs of War
In the process of evolution from the stone and club of our prehistoric ancestors to the modern rifle, an enormous number of contrivances have been invented by the fertile…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Returned Soldiers' Pay
The inquiry to be conducted by Mr. Wilshire, S.M., with regard to claims by certain members of the South African contingents, will start on Monday next at the Public Works Department…
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