Tallest Soldier. 6 Feet 8¼ and Still Growing
Private H. Barter, who has joined the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, is only 18 years of age, but stands 6ft. 8¼in. in his stockings, and is still growing. He is said…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1911
2,185 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 110
The Camp-fire Girls. America's Lady Soldiers. May Have to Get Their Hair Cut. Harem Skirts or Walking Breeches. New York
The United States is following in the footstops of Australia in the formation of a corps of girl aids. Plans are in course of preparation here…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →U S a and Japan. "War Is Certain," Says Millionaire American
Mr. "Vance Thompson, special correspondent of the "New York American cabled recently from Paris:—Charles Michael Schwab, the big steel manufacturer, who is…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →War Against the World. What Japan Might Attempt French Statesman's Views. Vancouver
Discussing the possibility of war between the United States and Japan, Baron D'Estournelles, the well-known French advocate of peace, who is at present in Seattle, says…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Autobiography of General Butler: A Great Soldier's Thrilling Career The Truth about South Africa
No one could have written Sir William Butler's life [?] fittingly as himself, says an Irish reviewer after reading the great soldier's autobiography, which hand just been…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →The Tallest Soldier
[?]H. Barter, who has lately in England joined the 1st Battalion G. [?] Guards, is only eighteen years of age, but stands [?] again in his stockings, and is still groning. He is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War against Pests
Rabbits are reported to be increasing all over the Gundagai district, N.S.W. The dry spell in the N.S.W. west is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Cause of War. Mont[?]nagre's Sympathy with Albania. Vienna
It is currently reported to-day that Turkey has delivered an ultimatum to Montenegro warning King Nicholas that unless the Montenegrins cease to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Camp-fire Girls. America's Lady Soldiers, Their self-Denying Ordinances. New York
Plans are in course at preparation here to bring into bring a temporary organisation, to be called "The Camp Fire Girls of America," and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wounded at the Railway Station. Pea-rifle Explodes
A lad was shot with a pea-rifle at the Central Railway Station yesterday morning. The rifle exploded, and the bullet entered the lad's arm. Herbert Williams, the victim, is 16 years old,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Pigeons As War Correspondents
For more than 2000 years carrier-pigeons have been used to carry messages when no other means sufficed, and during the siege of Paris, when 363 birds were sent out from the doomed city, one of the birds performed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mexican Revolt. Rebels Capture Aguaprieta. Battle Watched by Americans. General Spectators Wounded. El Paso (Texas), April 14
The rebels attacked Agunprieta, near the United States frontier, on Thursday night, and captured the town after a fierce battle…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Latest Cables. China Preparing for War. Russian Paper's Story. 120,000 Troops on the Move. Vancouver
An alarmist story that China is preparing for war is published by a Russian paper in Harbin. Manchuria. According to this journal a Chinese army…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aeroplane in War
In a United States Army biplane Mr. Parmalee, with Lieutenant Foulois as a passenger, flew for 116 miles without stopping along the Texas-Mexico frontier. The airmen were…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Tyne's Largest War Vessel
The keel was laid at Palmer's Shipyard, Yarrow, of the largest war vessel over built on the Tyne—the armored cruiser ordered in December last, which, it is understood, will be named…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Sir William F. Butler's Autobiography. His Part in the South African War
Sir William Francis Butler's Autobiography" (Constable), "as edited and arranged by his daughter, has many points of interest," writes Mr. W. L. Courtney in the London…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →The War of Armaments. France to Build Two More Battleships. ("Sunday Times" Special Message.) Paris, Friday Afternoon
The Senate has adopted a Bill to begin two battleships in 1911…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →State Ironworks. Is the Proposition Good? Private Enterprise and Labor Trouble. Our Danger Should the War Cloud Break
The launch of the Warrogo from the New South Wales Government Shipyard at Cockatoo Island, and the placing of an order for a small fleet of other defenders of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Sydney. Soldiers at Sentry Go, the Gallows, and the Stocks
Now, it would be interesting to my [?]ders if I described to them the condition of Sydney in those days, and compare the same and imagine the contrast between…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fatally Wounded. Sad Death of Bank Manager's Wife
THARGOMINDAH (Q.), Saturday.--Mrs. J. L. Godfrey, wife of the manager of the Commercial Bank here, was to-day accidentally shot in the breast with a revolver. She subsequently…
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