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The wars & local soldiers, 1908

1,272 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 64

A Hotel Keeper Wounded

Evening News · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 5

BATHURST. Thursday. —A sensation was caused to-day when it became known that Sufton How, licensee of the Great Western Family Hotel, had been found at an early hour this morning in a serious condition, suffering from…

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Pea-rifle Accident. Station Manager Wounded. Koorawatha

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 7

Mr. Campbell Jackson, manager of Kilkee, Koorawatha, was out on the station acoompanied by his wife. He was carrying a pea-rifle. He shot at a rabbit and wounded…

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Invention Has Only Made War Costly

The Australian Star · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 4

From Austria comes word that the invention of an application to nullify the impulses that make wireless telegraphy possible is under way. This is expected to he of service in war time in interfering with the…

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The Hero of the Civil War and Drink

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 11

Two grave, quiet-looking men stood on the steps of a big house in Washington some years ago. They were watching four bright children get into a cart and drive…

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War-worn Veterans. Appeal to the British Public. Royal Patronage for a National Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday.--Field-Marshal Lord Roberts recently issued an appeal to the nation to subscribe toWards a fund in order to rescue Crimean and Indian Mutiny…

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Soldier and Historian. Stories of Sir Evelyn Wood

Evening News · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 2

Sir Evelyn Wood, who has been appointed Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards, in place of Lord Wolseley, and who is to follow that distinguished officer as Gold Stick, is one of the…

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Jingo Declaration. America Wants a Pretext. for War with Japan. London, Jan. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 7

Captain R. P. Hobson, of the United States Navy, famous for his dash into Santiago Bay, Cuba, during the American-Spanish war, in the collier Merrimac…

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American Jingoism. "No Backwater From Japan." After the Fleet Arrives. Only a Pretext Wanted for War

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.--Captain Hobson, of Santiago Bay renown, has declared in the course of a lecture at Hartford, Connecticut, that "America has, in the past, been…

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Memorial to Fallen Soldiers. a Bathurst Movement

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 8

BATHURST, Thursday.--The agitation for the erection of a memorial to the Bathurst soldiers who fell during the Boer War has been revived. The proposal for a memorial was mooted, over…

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For Defence. Military Reconstruction Scheme. Citizen Soldiers' Difficulties' the Case of the Volunteers. Vi

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 7

When Major-General Sir Edward Hutton undertook the reorganisation and reconstruction of the military forces of the six States into a Commonwealth force, he was confronted not…

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Express Robbery. Armed Thieves' Daring Attack on Mail. Guards Wounded

The World's News · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 17

THREE passengers who were travelling in the first-class portion of the Orleans express, at dawn on the morning of November 22, when near Etampes, shot the two…

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The Russian Terrorists. Postal Van Blown Up and Robbed.officials Killed and Wounded

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 8

LONDON, Friday Evening.—A. bomb placed under a postal van at Sokoloff Station, on the Vistula railway, exploded, killing two soldiers belonging to the escort, and wounding the driver,…

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Literature. Some New Books. a Japanese Glimpse of War

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 4

Much has been said and written about the secretiveness of the Oriental nature and the difficulty of conjecturing what is in the Asiatic mind, and, while this is undoubtedly true in…

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Murder and Robbery Russian Terrorists Outrage Railway Van Blown Up and Looted Two Men Killed and Many Wounded London, Friday, 3.5 p.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 1

Russian Terrorists to whose daring there is no limit,perpetrated another murderous outrage yesterday at the Sokolo[?] station, on the Vistular railway…

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French and German Armies Soldier by Instinct and Soldier From Duty. French Artillery and Marching Superior

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 11

An American Press correspondent, having had the privilege of witnessing, at forty eight hours' interval, the grand manoeuvres of the French and German armies, makes the…

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Soldiers and Sailors Military and Naval Notes "A power whose morning-drum beat, following the sun, circles tho earth."--DANIEL WEBSTER

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 7

The institution of the Yeoman of the Guard dates back to October 30, 1485, in the time of Henry VIL Colonel H. B. Lassetter, C.B., has been…

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An Appeal to Our Soldiers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 4

A public appeal is being made in Melbourne by Mr. J. W. S. Leonard, a South African resident, to the members of the Australasian regiments who, when…

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A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale Oe the Crimes. Chapter III.—(Continued.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 6

"Absurd," said his father, addressing himself to his wife; "would you have the whole country cry shame upon [?] Can you not [?] even from his own…

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Remembering War Veterans

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1908 · page 12

Earl Roberts has appealed to the nation to subscribe funds to rescue Crimean ad Indian veterans from the workhouse. The King, who is patron of the fund, has…

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German Army Morals War Minister's Admission

The Australian Star · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 1

The scandals which led to the sensational Moitke-Harden case have been discussed in the German Reichstag with singular freedom--singular at least from the British point…

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