Turco-italian War. Cairo, March 30
The Sheik el Senussl declines to organise a general movement against the Italians It is stated that the Turks and Arabs in Tripoli have ample food, but they are short of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1912
2,867 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 144
Dangerous Deals. How to Stop War. Norman Angell's Recipe
You know the story of the Coffin Trust is the chinese [?] at a time of plague: when at the outbreak the Viceroy began to apply sanitary measures he and the whole Provincial…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Young Guard. an Example for Empire. 19,000 Boy Soldiers. Review by Lord Denman. Mud-bespattered Army
Lord Denman, Governor-General, came cantering down the slope in Centennial Park, followed by a gay and glittering staff of officers and aildes. Nearing the saluting base his…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Strikers and Soldiers at Play. London
The good feeling that prevails between the soldiers and the strikers was evidenced yesterday by their joining in a football match at Cannock, Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Riots at Nanking. Soldiers Taking Part. Pekin
Serious outbreaks have occurred in Nanking. Looting and brigandage are going on to an alarming extent. Many of the soldiers are taking part…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Outbreak at Nankin. Soldiers Looting the City
PEKIN, Friday Evening.--A serious outbreak has occurred at Nankin, where soldiers are looting extensively in the city…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The War against Pests
Gundagai P.P. Board on last scalp day paid away over £60 for crows' heads. The present year has so far been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Inciting Soldiers to Mutiny. Sentences Reduced
The sentence of six mont'[?] imprisonment, which was passed on Benjamin Bucks for publishing matter in the "Syndicalist," inciting soldiers to mutiny, has been reduced to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Boys, Don't Do It." Appeal to Soldiers Not to Shoot. "Act the Man, Brother Human Being."
From one of a number of handbills distributed in the barracks at South Camp, Aldershot, by one Frederick Crowsley, the following extracts were read in the local police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welcome Home
The Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Club welcomed its three Kangaroos"— Messrs. J. Quinlan (manager), R. Williams, and D. Prawley— at a social at the Paddington Town Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →From a War Correspondent
Mr. Edgar Wallace, the famous war correspondent, tells some very amusing ancedotes about the humorous side of campaigning. During the Beer War there arrived in a town…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Tale of the Beer War
Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the war correspondent, tells an amusing story of the Boer war.—Whilst at Nq'Mell Mountain, is miles east of Vryheld, part of General…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Turco-italian War. Rome, April 2
Three thousand Turks attacked at various points, the new forts that are being constructed at Tobruk, but the Italian artillery compelled them to retire…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →In Victoria: Politics and "War." The Political Situation
THE Liberal party is beginning work early in order to leave no stone unturned to reverse, or at any rate, modify the vote of April, 1910, at next year's Federal elections. Organisation is being pushed…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Late Cable News. Received To-day, Tureo-Italian War. Further Fighting. British Steamed Seized
PERIM. Tuesday Evening.— The Italians have notified that a blockade has commenced of Lopeia and Kamaran, which lie twenty miles apart, on the West Coast of Arabia…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Late Cable News. Received To-day. Britain's Little Wars. Teaching a Tribe a Lesson. Native Soldiers Killed
CAIRO, Tuesday Evening .—The expedition led by Major C.H. Leveson ([?]b Hussars) against the Anuska for raiding the Nuer tribe had a severe fight with the enemy in thick bush at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Obituary. Japanese War Minister. Tokio, April 3
The death is announced of General Baron Ishimoto, Minister for War…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Turko-italian War. Blockade in Red Sea. Perim, April 2
The Italians have notified that a blockade has commenced of Lo[?]a (a seaport of Arabia on the Red Sea coast of Yemen) and Kamaran (a small island in the Red Sea on the Arabian…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tug-of-war. Challenge From New Zealand. Accepted by Local Team
A revival of tug-of-war competitions worthy of the name is a possibility of the immediate future. A team of New Zealand professionals, inspired by a succession of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Flying Year. Aeroplanes in War. New Epoch in History. Great Military Weapon
Although common black gunpowder was known In China more than a thousand years ago. It wu never used as propellant of projectlies until it was re-invonted in Europa…
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