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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
1,195 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 60
General von Eiaem, Minister for War. replying to-day in the Reichstag to various attacks by Social Democratic speakers on the army estimates. pointed out that in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At Clontarf yesterday Captain Penfold, the Australian acronaut, made a balloon ascent in the presence of about 6000 spectators, this being his sixth conseentive aseent within the past few weeks. To mark the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The dressmakers of New York have raised the red flag of revolt, and the authority they rebel against is the claim of Paris to dictate fashions to the world. The New York sartorial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The experiment conducted by the War Office last month, assisted by the Automobile Association, for the purpose of testing the utility of the motor-vehicle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The King's African Rifles, which consist of five battalions, are black troops with the exception of one-half battalion, which is recruited in India among the Sikhs. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, Tuesday.--The Federal Committee of French Postal Employees have placarded Paris Willi an appeal to Parliament to dismiss M. Simyan, permanent…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →One of the best attendances (for a Saturday night) seen for some time tricked into the Gaiety on Saturday night. Jack Texas 10st, and Ben Palmer 10st, comprised the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Wednesday.--After the French Chamber of Deputies hail adjourned the Postal debate yesterday, 10,000 postal employees held a meeting, at which they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.--Apropos of the cable from Calcutta about colonial arms being smuggled across the Pathan frontier, the Defence Stores Department states that the last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Replying in the House of Commons to Mr. W. Ashley (Conservative, Blackpool), regarding the Hying of the Union Jack on Empire Day, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BROKEN HILL, Thursday.—The Combined Unions committee last night read several telegrams from Port Pirie stating that Mr. Delpart, manager of the Proprietary Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday Evening.—Tea will henceforth be the staple drink of the German army, supplanting beer and coffee…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The fact that the Inspector-General of the military forces of the Commonwealth has notified his intention of inspecting the metropolitan and other cadets attending the rifle shooting…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →It is stated that Germany has acquired the patents of the Heilbron engineer Schleier for an armored automobile which will carry machine guns, move at a tremendous speed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The steamer Moresby just arrived in Sydney from the South Seas reports severe inter tribal wars among the Solomon Islanders. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A WAR like nothing that has yet been known—a war of flying battleships, of skyward-pointed artillery, and of blaz- ing battlefields—was depicted by Colonel F. G…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE first description of a trip of the Zeppelin airship yet made public was given by Prince Henry of Prussia, the Emperor's brother, at a lecture delivered at the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →We were going steadily ahead--a long, straggling, clumsy, slow procession. Forty of the fifty miles had been covered, and already, from the hills around Klerksdorp,…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →He gave a peculiar whistle, which, when out tracking the sables or hunting the bears or wolves in Siberia, had served as a signal between them, giving Jack…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lieutenant-General Deshon, one of the survivors of the battle of Hyderabad, fought on March 24, 1843, passed the anniversary quietly at his house at Bathampton (England)…
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