Sydney's Boy Soldiers at a Military Drama. Public School Cadets and Boy Scouts at a Performance of "An Englishman's Home" at the Theatre Royal
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 5 May 1909 · page 31
THERE was an inspiriting sight at the Theatre Royal on Friday afternoon, when 2000 of our boy soldiers, accepting the…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Soldier O'grady v. WHITTAKER
Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 5 May 1909 · page 6
Next Saturday night, at the Gaiety Club, Soldier O'Grady, who recently defeated Sandow, will be opposed to Whittaker, of North Shore, who has been having a lengthy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"All's Fair in War" Against Catholics
The Catholic Press · Thursday 6 May 1909 · page 13
The methods employed by the "Carrion Crows" to blacken the character of the Irish people, in which recourse was had to the manufacture of "faked photographs…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Conquest of the Air. British Aeroplane. Mysteriously Tested on Scottish Hills. New War Office Dirigible
Evening News · Thursday 6 May 1909 · page 4
LONDON, Wednesday Evening.—Captain J. W. Dunne, of the Royal Engineers, is the inventor of the aeroplane which has been mysteriously tested in the Scottish hills. One flight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thirty Thousand Killed. Soldiers Join Fanatics. Looting and Burning. London, May 5
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 May 1909 · page 7
Outrages are still reported from Southern Asia Minor. Further massacres have taken place at Adana. Four thousand soldiers, who should be restoring order, are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Armenian Horrors. Thirty Thousand Victims. Renewal of the Massacres. Soldiers Looting and Burning
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 May 1909 · page 7
LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--When the Adana massacres were renewed on April 25, soldiers and Bashi-Bazouks fired volleys into an Armenian schoolhouse where 2000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Bishop on War
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 May 1909 · page 8
In the course of his charge delivered at the Hobart Cathedral on April 25, the Bishop of Tasmania, in commenting upon the apparent antagonism between the demands of religion…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Aerial Navigation. the Dirigible As a War Machine
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 May 1909 · page 8
The announcement by the British Admiralty that the subject of aerial navigation is just now receiving their attention goes to show that the future possibilities of the airship ts a destructive instrument of war…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Chapter Xxvi. All Is Fair in Love and War
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 May 1909 · page 3
For the mon who has almost achieved success yet just failed at the last moment there must always be a particular bitterness. Since fortune and good luck bring him to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aerial Navigation. the War Office Experiments Accident to an Aeroplane
Evening News · Friday 7 May 1909 · page 6
LONDON, Thursday Evening.—Captain J. W. Dunne, of the Royal Engineers, the inventor of an aeroplane reported to have been mysteriously tested in the Scottish hills and to have made…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldiers in the Air. Another New Aeroplane. Fresh Type of Balloon. Important Advisory Committee
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 May 1909 · page 7
LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Captain J. W. Dunn, of the Royal Engineers, has invented an aeroplane, which he mysteriously tested in the Scottish hills, making…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Religious. Prayer and War
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 15
"Do Christians really believe in the efficacy of prayer?" asks the London Anglican "Guardian." "That, put quite baldly, is the question asked in our correspondence columns by a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Aeronautics. Aeroplane Disaster. War Office Experiments. London, May 6
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 13
Messrs. Wright Brothers have sailed from England for America. They return to England in the autumn. Lieutenant Calderara, a pupil of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Burglar's Tug of War. Amusing Tussle Between Police and Housebreaker
The World's News · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 2
A burglar who broke into a chemist's shop near the Paris Opera early one morning recently was the victim of a curious misadventure, which ended in his capture by the police, after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aerial Navigation. the War Office Experiments. an Accident in Rome
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 9
LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Captain Dunne, of the Royal Engineers, the inventor of a new aeroplane, disclaims the report that his machine made a flight of 12 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sedition in India. Close of Alipur Conspiracy Case. Two Death Sentences. Waging War Against the King
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 9
LONDON, Friday.--In connection with the Alipur conspiracy case, which has been proceeding for many mouths past, Baron Ghose, a brother of the well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter IXI.—Continued
Nepean Times · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 8
"What would they say to us in Harleyford if they could see us? Another such battle, and our debt to the Rcoshians will be pretty well paid."…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Soldiers Die of Thirst. Terrible Fate of a French Company
The World's News · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 9
The frightful report of the death from thirst of a company of French soldiers under the command of an officer in Mauretania is confirmed by official news that has just reached the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Soldiers and Sailors Military and Naval Notes. "A power whose morning-drum beat, following the sun, circles the earth." --Daniel Webster
The Star · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 12
Major-General Sir C. Ferguson, D.S.O., formerly of the Grenadier Guards, has been appointed to the new British posit of Inspector of In[?]antry, under the inspector-General of the Forces…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Life in London and Thereabout. (Chronicled by Henry W. LUCY.) The Naval Scare.—Mr. Balfour a Man of War. —The National Ledger.—"Show Sunday."— A Reputed "Wit." WESTMINSTER, April 2
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 7
Mr. Balfour and his supporters in the press continue to protest that there is nothing in the way of political partisanship in the engineering of the naval scare. Meanwhile…
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