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The wars & local soldiers, 1910

1,240 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 62

Race Por Armaments. Sir George Reid's Views. a State of War. London, April 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 April 1910 · page 7

Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, speaking at the dinner of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, said that the manufacture of rifles for…

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Frost and Snow. America's Misfortune. Cotton and Fruit Crops Ruined. "Worst-set-back Since Civil War."

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 April 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--According to Router's correspondent at Atlanta (Georgia), the destruction wrought to the cotton belt in the State of Georgia by the…

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The World at War. Britain and Her Enemies. Peril of Vast, Armaments. Australia's Right to Prepare

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 April 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, who is on a visit to Birmingham, speaking at the banquet tendered him by the…

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The New British War Office

Evening News · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 8

LONDON, Thursday Evening.-Mr. L. V. Harcourt, First Commissioner of Works, states that the new War Office at Whitehall cost £1,229,123…

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War Services. Transvaal Burghers Rewarded. London, April 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 7

The Transvaal Parliament has allocated £123,000 for the benefit of burghers disabled in war…

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On Thought Of War. Japan and America. Vancouver, Thursday, 2.40 p.m

The Star · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 5

Prince Tokugawa Tyesate, the head of a family that once ruled Japan, arrived at Victoria (B.C.) to-day, on route to the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition in London…

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Cigarettes and Shooting. Soldiers Affected

Evening News · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 8

LONDON, Thursday Evening.-Lieutenant-General Sir H. L. Smith-Dorrien. Commanding-in-Chief at Aldershot, has stopped soldiers in the command smoking cigarettes when under arms…

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Gallant Soldier's Downfall. Pleads Guilty to Fraud

Evening News · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday Evenings-At the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, to-day. Captain James Henry Holford, D.S.O., pleaded guilty to having fraudulently converted to his…

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Fight in an Express. Crazy Passenger; Several Killed and Wounded

The World's News · Saturday 30 April 1910 · page 19

A pitched battle on an express train, not in the wild and woolly West, but in the Eastern State of Delaware, U.S., is the latest story of American railway adventure…

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The New War Office. London, April 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 April 1910 · page 13

Mr. Lowis Harcourt, First Commissioner of Works, states that the new War Office will cost £1,229,129…

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Imperial Defence. New British War Office. to Cost Over a Million. V Kitchener's New Command

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 April 1910 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Mr. L. V. Harcourt, First Commissioner for Works, states that the new War Office which it is proposed to build at Whitehall will cost…

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A Soldier's Downfall. the Holford Case. London, April 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 April 1910 · page 13

Captain James Henry Holford, D.S.O., pleaded guilty at the Criminal Sessions today to having fraudulently converted to his own use valuable jewellery…

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Soldiers and Cigarettes. Action at Aldershot. Shooting Affected. London, April 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 April 1910 · page 13

Lieut-General Sir H. L. Smith-Dorrien, G.O.C. at Aldershot, has issued orders to stop the smoking of cigarettes by soldiers there while under arms or on fatigue duty,…

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A Book to Read. Told by an Old Soldier

The Star · Saturday 30 April 1910 · page 7

The stirring scenes and incidents in the stories of old British battles are missed from the accounts of later wars in which this country has been engaged (remarks…

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A Soldier's Fraud. Larceny As a Bailee. £4000 Worth of Jewelery

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 April 1910 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Captain James Henry Edward Holford, D.S.O., of Mount Pleasa[?], Old Warden, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, was brought up at the Old…

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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 1 May 1910 · page 15

Winter clothing will be taken into wear from May 1. Major J. Lamrock, V.D. O.C. 3rd A.I.R., has passed for the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. The Irish Rifle Regiment will carry out their annual…

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The Young Soldier

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 1 May 1910 · page 15

Captain W. Radford, formerly O.C. 1st battalion cadets, has been transferred to the unattached list. Owing to the schools' demonstration, on Empire Day, the cadets will have to give their display later on…

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War Against Dingoes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 May 1910 · page 4

COOLAH.—At a meeting of farmers in the "dog country" around Cooiah, the following motions were carried:—That a levy of 10s per 1000 sheep up to 5000 and 5s per 1000 over that…

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Amateurs at War. The League Laughs at Last

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 4 May 1910 · page 4

WHEN the footballers of his Sate were in the throes of was over the question of Union v. League, it will be remembers the "Sportsman" amrmed there was more than…

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Ex-soldier's Suicide. Found Dead in His Bed

The Star · Wednesday 4 May 1910 · page 3

When Mr. John Guest returned to his home 18 Lillie Queen-street, Newtown, at 8 o'clock this, morning, he was surprised to find the placed locked up Borrowing a knife from…

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