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The wars & local soldiers, 1908

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Trouble in Morocco. a Holy War. London, Friday Afternoon

Sunday Times · Sunday 1 March 1908 · page 7

The French Press state that 6000 troops will reinforce General D'Amade in Morocco. The emissaries of Mulai Hand are…

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Australian Products War Office and Admiralty Supplies. London, Friday Afternoon

Sunday Times · Sunday 1 March 1908 · page 7

The War Office has approved of the samples of compressed fodder submitted by the Victorian Agricultural Department, and has asked for a…

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Shooting Affray at Pad-dington. Woman Seriously Wounded

Evening News · Monday 2 March 1908 · page 4

A sensational shooting affray took place on Saturday night at the corner of Jersey-road and Hargrave streets. Paddington, Mary Anne Williams, a married woman, being wounded in…

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Woman Shot at Paddington. Arrest of a Wounded Man

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 March 1908 · page 8

On Saturday night at about 7.30 a married woman named Mary Emma Williams, 32 years of age, was shot at by a man named Joseph Ros- sitter with the result that several bullets…

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The Trouble in Morocco. Breaching a Holy War

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 March 1908 · page 7

LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--French newspapers state that 6000 troops will reinforce General d'Amade in Morocco. Emissaries of Mulai Hand (who was proclaimed…

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The Frontier War. Reassuring Signs. London, Feb. 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 March 1908 · page 7

Many chiefs of the Zakka Khels, on the north-west frontier of India, have arrived at the camp of Major-General Willcocks. The fact is regarded as a hopeful sign of…

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Little War Ended. Zakka Khels Submit. an Easy Success London, March 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 March 1908 · page 7

The operations on the north- west frontier of India have ended with the submission of the Zakka Khels. Many headmen of the Tirah tribes…

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Death to the Rat a War of Extermination Campaign Started in England

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 March 1908 · page 7

The adjourned meeting of Die new association which is to wage a war of extermination against rats was held last month at the Whitehall Rooms of the Hotel Metropole,…

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Engines of War. an American Speed Vessel

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 4 March 1908 · page 634

Mr. Lewis Nixon, one of America's prominent [?] builders, claims to have completed a vessel capable of doing over 60 knots an hour. Mr. Nixon, when interviewed about his wonderful…

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Engines of War. a Sinister Weapon. London, March 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 March 1908 · page 9

A Swiss-American engineer named Bau[?]erter has offered to sell to the United States Government for a million sterling an automatic, noiseless, smokeless,…

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Youthful Soldiers-—-The Commonwealth Senior Cadets

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 4 March 1908 · page 25

One of the most thoughtful, and at the same time absolutely necessary, acts of recent years on the part of the Commonwealth military authorities…

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A Soldier of Fortune a Tale of the Crimea. CHAPTER XXII.—Continued)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1908 · page 1

Doubtless he had wrung them often in token, to use n diplomatic phrase, of his high, consideration. Even the Count respected him for his…

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North Queensland Diocese. New Church at Cooktown. the Bishops Welcome Home

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 March 1908 · page 11

The ceremony of opening and blessing the new church: of St. Mary's Cooktown (Q.), was performed by his Lordship Dr. Murray, on Sunday, 16th nit., in the presence of a…

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War Against Trusts. Amending Legislation. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1908 · page 5

When questioned recently as to what the Government was doing in regard to their intention to suppress trusts acting in contravention of the Australian industries…

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What Is Happening in Japan. the War Against Whites

The Catholic Press · Thursday 5 March 1908 · page 8

The train from Seoul to Fusan was five hours late. It had broken down twice. The locomotive, badly cleaned and badly handled, was scarce able to drag its load, and…

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War Correspondents. Some Famous Irishmen. Lecture by Mr. M. M'DONAGH

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 March 1908 · page 42

"Irish War Correspondents" was the interesting title of a lecture delivered by Mr. Michael M'Donagh on Saturday, January 18, to the members of the Irish Literary Society…

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The Sixty-Ninth New YorK Irish-america's Gallant Regiment. How It Fought in the Civil War

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 March 1908 · page 5

"Up Marye's heights, and my old canteen Stepped a rebe ball on its way. There were blossoms of blood on our sprigs of green…

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An Ancient Soldier

The Catholic Press · Thursday 5 March 1908 · page 15

Captain Paget John Bourke, of the Royal Body Guard, and formerly of the 11th Foot, died in London a few weeks ago, at the age of 87, and has his Requiem at the Church…

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Engines of War. Plans of an American Inventor

The World's News · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 7

AS the result of a conversation which the New York representative of the "Standard" had with Mr. Lewis Nixon, the shipbuilder, he is able to correct certain…

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Motor Boats for War. the Newest Craft in the British Navy

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 11

Encouraged by the success of the Russian torpedo motor boats, the British Admiralty has just added to the navy list the first of a now class of craft specially…

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