The Lighter Side of War
Mr. Morton Ballyfrench has produced a very readable little book in "The Lighter Side of War" (Century Press). In the early part of 1901 the Militia Battalion, in which he held…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1910
1,240 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 62
A Memory of the War
The [?] men appeared to be asleep, for time was no movement noticeable amongst the skins which covered them other than the even rise and fall of human…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Relentless War Against the Fly
Now that it has been conclusively established that flics convey disease, le; the nation wage war against these repulsive insects and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Office Secretary. London, Friday, 4.40 p.m
It is possible that Mr. Charles E. Mallett, Liberal M.P. for Plymouth, will be appointed Financial Secretary to the War Office…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Army Estimates. an Increase of £325,000. Satisfactory Enlistment
LONDON, Friday.--The Army Estimates are £27,700,000. Mr. R. B. Haldane (Secretary of State for War) explained in the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Girl Twice Tries to Enlist in the Navy
Miss Adelaide Portwood, of Decatur, III., possessed of unusually good looks, large stature, and a full, deep contralto voice, dressed as a man, recently…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Our Defences. "Every soldier carries in his knapsack the baton of a field-marshal." Army and Navy Notes
The death has occurred of Mr. John Bibby, aged 93, of Chatham, who was a bluejacket of H.M.S. Moderate through the war with China in 1841-2. A. deserter from the French artillery was acquitted…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Young Soldier
The rifle meetings for junior cadets during the forthcoming year have been arranged. The second battalion of Senior Cadets will parade on Cootamundra on Friday, March 25…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →War Loan Redemption
The War Loan Redemption Bill for £21,339,603 for a loan of 1900 was read the third time in the House of Commons…
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LONDON, Sunday.--The third reading of the war Loan Redemption Bill was carried yesterday in the House of Commons…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →General News. War and Christianity
The Minister of Defence (Mr. Joseph Cook) addressed a congregation at the Lyceum Hall yesterday afternoon on the question. "Is the world growing better?" Before he began his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"In War Time." Mountain Home for Wounded Sailors. Sydney Citizens' Patriotism
"The power behind the Throne." is a phrase with which the world is familiar. As will be readily remembered, towards the end of the Russo Japanese War it was rumored that,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Houses at War. Olive Branch Shot From a Catapult. Arranging the Finances. Two Bills Through the Lords
LONDON, Tuesday.--In the House of Lords yesterday, on the second reading of the Temporary Borrowing Bill, Lord Lansdowne (leader of the Opposition in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Talk of War
In "Nash's Magazine" there is an article worth reading, which is not intended to be regarded us action, and which is headed. "The Terror on Europe's Threshold." it is by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Anti-religious War in France
The anti-religious war in Franco is conducted in the meanest way. The "People Francais" reports a case at Villers-sous-Chalamont. In a girls' primary school…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Talk of War
In "Nash's Magazine" there is an article, worth rending, which is not intended to he regarded as fiction, and which is headed, "The Terror oh Europe's Threshold." It is by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Navy War Council. Provided for in Programme
LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The naval programme includes the cost of establishing a Mobilisation Department and the new Navy War Council…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →British Soldiers. Emigration to Oversea Dominions. Limited in the Case of Reservists London, Friday, 4.53 p.m
Replying to a question in the House of Commons last night, Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that the emigration of reservists would be permitted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The No-more-war Prophets
The ground on which many British Radical oud Laberite M.'sP. base their claim that armaments should be reduced instead of being increased, and on which not a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Defences. "Every soldier carries in his knapsack the baton of a field-marshal." Army and Navy Notes
The A.A.S.C. will parade it the Victoria Barracks on Monday, the 21st inst. A voluntary church parade in the Paddington Method 1st Church will be held at 11 a.m. today…
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