Ready for War. Imperial Position to Be Reviewed
LONDON, Friday. -- In the Mouse of Commons yesterday, the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), announced that the statement regarding the readiness of the navy in the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1909
1,195 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 60
Socialism and War. a Democratic Army. But Mot Conscription
There is a cricket bat standing near my desk; it was given to me by a great batsman, and has none yeoman service in more than one test match. As I looked at it just…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter [?]VIII.—Continued
The sergeant slowly raised the rough foraging cap which partly concealed his face, and the worn-out fugitive recognised the countenance of Francis Bailey,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →For Wesleyan Sailors and Soldiers
The D[?]s of A[?] visited Ports[?] recently [?] the foundation[?] of the new Wes[?] and Soldiers Home, which is to be erected on a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers and Sailors. Military and Naval Notes. "A power whose morning-drum beat, following the sun, circles the earth." Daniel Webster
A British army order has been issued raising the standard of height tor recruits for the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, and Scots Guards, boys excepted, to 6ft. 9in…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Vendetta of Soldiers' Alley
People still speak of Thermopylae, Marathon, Actium, Austerlitz. Waterloo. and other great battlefields as though they were place worthy of undying…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Civl War in Turkey
It can hardly be hoped that the heavy fighting when took place in Constantinople on Saturday between the troops supporting the Constitutionalists and the regiments…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Late Cable News. Received To-day. The Fighting in Constantinople. Situation on Sunday. Newspaper Correspondents Wounded. Conduct of Troops Perfect
LONDON, Sunday Evening.—On the refusal of the garrison of the Porte to surrender a sharp fusillade compelled it to hoist the white flag…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War in the Air. Vivid Picture of Aerial Battle. Britain's Exposed Ports
The lecture on the "Defence of Harbors against Naval Airships," given on March 10, by Colonel F. G. Stone, in the Royal United Service Institution, London, while severely…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Wheat War. Flight of the Leading "Bull." Denounced As a Coward. Favorable New Crop Prospects
LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The wheat speculator, Mr. Patten, has left Chicago. Many rained brokers are now denouncing the leading speculator as a coward…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bloodshed in Constantinople. Heavy Fighting in the Streets. Young Turks Win the Day. Sultan's Soldiers Routed. LONDON
Matters reached a climax in Constantinople yesterday, when heavy fighting occurred. For the last five days the Salonican troops had been drawing closer to the capital…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fratricidal Bloodshed. Narrow Escape of Austrian Embassy. Newspaper Correspondents Wounded
LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--On the refusal of the garrison of the Porte to surrender, a sharp fusillade compelled it to hoist the white flag…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Armour's War Office Contract
Thus the London Standard:—We learn from Mr. A. H. J. Baass, the English agent for an Australian meat preserving company, that he has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Canned Meat. War Office Contracts
The Premier has received from the Agent-General a further communication bearing on the disinclination of Australian meat packers to tender for the supply of canned meats for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Civil War in Turkey-- Fighting in Constantinople
Affairs in Turkey are just now in a very unsettled state, and open war between the Committee of Union and Progress and the Young Turks on one side, and the soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →War of Atoms. Effect of a Radium Bombardment
Professor Sir J. J. Thomson, lecturing at the Royal Institution, London, last month, made some remarkable statements about the energy developed by radium. Radium gave…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →Meat for the War Office. Restrictions Against Our Packers. New Contract on Better Lines
The ways of the war office authorities are sometimes difficult to understand. Here in Australia we have one of the greatest stock countries in the world, and the fact that it…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Persia's Civil War. the First Effect of Russian Intervention. Nationalists Surrender. Better the Shah Than the Czar
LONDON, Tuesday.--After an excited discussion on Saturday, the Persian Nationalists, who have been holding out against the Royalist troops at Tabriz, decided that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Self-sacrifice for Duty. Boy Soldiers Praised by the Prince of Wales
A stirring address on the value of the Cadet Corps movement was made at the Guildhall, last month by the Prince of Wales, in the course of his remarks the Prince…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →Mr. Reid on Defence. Starving the Soldiers
GRAFTON, Tuesday.--Mr. G. H. Reid delivered an address last night in aid of the local Dreadnought fund. He strongly advocated the presentation of a Dreadnought to Great…
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