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The wars & local soldiers, 1910

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Niearaguan War. American Adventurers

Evening News · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 8

We have had much mention of, late in our special telegrams of tie execution of a couple of United States adventurers in Nicaragua, by ex-President Zelaya. Particulars from…

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Food Supply in War. Alarmist Picture of Britain's Position

The Star · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 15

Mr. Douglas Owen, at a meeting at the Royal United Service Institution in London last month, drew an alarmist picture of what might happen to Great Britain…

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On the War Path. Red Indian Warfare at Its Worst

The World's News · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 21

THERE are very few men living who can tell a first-hand story of Red Indian warfare at its worst, when white people were done to death without mercy. In…

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The Improbability of War. Why Has It Not Taken Place? a New Point of View

The Star · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 6

I have for a [?]ng time harbored a dark suspicion that [?] probability of war between any of the great Powers is becoming more and m[?]e remote…

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The Man Who Ended War. (Published by special arrangement with Nott and Ramay, Publishers' Agents.) Chapter Xx

The World's News · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 22

"YOU don't mean that literally," exclaimed Tom. Regnier nodded quietly. "I mean that I believe my memory was deliberately…

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Tragedy of Love. Ex-soldier's Dramatic Confession

The Star · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 1

A dramatic story of a love tragedy was told at the Liverpool Assizes on November 22, when Benjamin Scholey was charged with murdering a young married woman…

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War Strength of the Sea Powers

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 January 1910 · page 5

The Office of Naval Intelligence of the United States has compiled and issued tables of statistics, from one of which it appears that the present total warship…

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Here and There a Minister for War on Boy Scouts

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 January 1910 · page 5

Mr. Haldane Minister for War, recently remarked: "The training of Boy Scouts is one of the most valuable movements now going on in the country for the…

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The Jew As an Australian Soldier

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 January 1910 · page 10

In modern times the Hebrew race, whatever its ancient prowess. has been credited with a particular dislike to military service—much trouble has, indeed, arisen…

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South African Soldiers' Association

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 January 1910 · page 3

R. P. Chatfield, hon. sec., states that a general meeting of the Association will be held at room 5. Protestant Hall, on Tuesday, January 4, at 8 p.m., to make final arrangements for the paride…

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Our Defences. "Every soldier carries in his knapsack the baton of a field-marshal." Army and Navy Notes

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 2 January 1910 · page 15

The death has occurred in his residence in Sanquhar 'Scotland) of Thomas Allison, a Crimean veteran, in his 52nd year, for the last 20 years he had been blind, Rear- Admiral Ernest Alfred Simons has been selected…

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The Young Soldier

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 2 January 1910 · page 15

Nothing of interest is moving in cadet circles this week. School holidays being on, parades are off, and cadets accordingly are, to all intents and purposes, on…

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"K. of K." Great Reception at Brisbane. the Man As He Is. a Difference in Peace and War. New Impressions of the Stern Soldier

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1910 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Lord Kitchener arrived in Brisbane yesterday afternoon, and was enthusiastically received. If the cheers, lacked in volume those which, prompted by national…

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South African Soldiers. Reception in Each State

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1910 · page 6

Lord Kitchener will see before the Lord Mayor's dinner, on Wednesday night in Sydney, the men who served in South Africa. They should be at the Town Hall half an hour…

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The War Lord's Visit. Field-marshal at Brisbane. Speech at a State Dinner

Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 6

Lord Kitchener was entertained at dinner in Parliament House, Brisbane, by tie Queensland Government on Monday night, in the presence of a large company of representative citizens…

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South African Soldiers. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 6

Colonel Legge to-day received the following telegram from Commander Pethebridge, acting secretary to the Defence Department: "Lord Kitchener will see South African…

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South African Soldiers. to Parade Before Lord Kitchener

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Colonel Legge, member of the Military Board on duty at the barracks, received the following wire from the Acting-Secretary for Defence, who is with the…

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Lord Kitchener and South African Soldiers. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 8

Sir,—It is reported in your columns that a number of the men who fought in South Africa have, in Brisbane, had an opportunity, of parading before Lord Kitchener…

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Small Soldiers' Grievances

The Star · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 4

"They have been trying to knock us out, you know, and let the Boy Scouts have all the fun," said a diminutive color-sergeant on the tram this morning…

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South African Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 9

The members of the South African Soldiers' Association, and also a large contingent of those who served in the late war in South Africa, at a meeting held in the…

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