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The wars & local soldiers, 1912

2,867 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 144

Latest Cables. Seizure of Steamers. the Manouba's Passengers. Surgeons, Not Soldiers. Paris

The Sun · Thursday 25 January 1912 · page 7

Prance is ready to recall her Ambassador from Rome unless the Italian Government gives a quick answer, to the demand for the release of the Turkish doctors, and nurses…

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The Spy: the Man of the Hour In Peace and War. He Has a Bad Name, But He May Be a Hero

The Catholic Press · Thursday 25 January 1912 · page 43

It is only very recently that the general public has come to understand the reality of the work of the official spy. The type had long been familiar, but it seemed to live…

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Sinews of War

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 7

The move made by dairymen on the North Coast in the direction of contributing to a general fund for the purpose of meeting die expenses of…

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War on the Pigeon

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 2

The common pigeon has been proclaimed a noxious animal with in the Municipality of Ballina…

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The War Against Pests Breeding Up

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 3

The impressions made on the rabbits by the operations of the Wyndham (N.S.W.) Canning factory has been more than counter-balanced by the…

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Turko-italian War. a Way Out. Suggestion From Vienna. Vienna, Jan. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 7

The "Reichspost" suggests that Italy should offer Turkey the bulk of bar East African possessions in exchange for Tripoli and Cyrenaica, in order to enable Turkey to…

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News from the Four Quarters Foreign Cables the Chinese Revolution. War to the Last

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 2

It is reported that the Dowager Empress of China has decided against the Emperor's abdication. She is said to have declared that war to the death is…

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Chemist, Yachtsman, and Soldier. the Late Mr. J. S. Abraham

Evening News · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 8

By the death of Mr. J. S. Abraham, at his residence, "The Terraces," overlooking Lavender Bay, on Thursday morning. New South Wales loses one of its [?] chemists. He…

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Accidentally Wounded His Mother

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 13

MUDGEE, Friday.--Mrs. R. Robinson was doing some work in the vegetable garden near her home when her son a boys of 10 years, accidentally fired off a pea-riffe. The bullet struck…

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War Office Tricked. a Double Soldier

The Sun · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 6

The ingenious method by which a sweep has tricked the War. Office for five years, and which was only discovered by the merest accident, was described at Nottingham,…

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Callous Young Murderers Soldiers Kill an Old Woman Who Has Entertained Them

The Arrow · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 2

Sentence of death was passed on two young Trench soldiers named Tisscau and No[?] who murdered an old woman for the sake of 14/. They called at her house and asked for…

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The Lovers. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter I. in Which a Man of God and a Man of War Lament the Times and Stand Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 4

The road flung itself out naked and free, mile after rolling mile, along the moor. It climbed the hills, fell into the valleys, crossed the rivers by bridges or fords, climbed again,…

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Life in London and Thereabout. (Chronicled by Henry Lucy.) The King in India.—Royal Literary Fund.— An Expert on the Boer War.—Territorials.—Rare Bibles. WESTMINSTER, Dec. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 7

Very little has appeared in print recording, even hinting at, the profound anxiety with which the visit of his Majesty to India is regarded in high official circles at home…

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Turco-italian War

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 January 1912 · page 13

Three battalions of Italian infantry and a small body of cavalry were heavily defeated while endeavouring to recapture Sensur, to the westward of Tripoli. The Arabs pursued the Italians, right to the outskirts of…

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British Labor. General Strike Advocated to Avert War. Dramatic Scenes. London, Friday Night

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 January 1912 · page 7

The British Labor Conference sitting at Birmingham passed a resolution demanding an amendment of the National Insurance Bill on the ground that the contributions are unjustly…

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Strike Riot at Luxemburg. Three Killed, Six Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 10

BERLIN, Sunday.--Five hundred Italian foundry men at Luxemburg, who had struck owing to the masters deducting the men's contributions for invalidity assurance, stormed…

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The Civil War in China

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 8

One of the most remarkable features of the present civil war in China is the absence of intervention from outside. Ten or fifteen years ago such a conflict would,…

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War Stores From Germany. St. Petersburg, Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 9

Twenty thousand rifles and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition sent from Germany have traversed Russia for Peking…

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A Peace Vote. Recent German Elections. War Taxation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 8

Under the British system of party government Ministers stand or fall as the will of the people is declared through the ballot box. In Germany, however, though policy may be…

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Soldier and Sailor Too. Prince of Wales an Hussar

Evening News · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 8

CAPETOWN, Sunday Evening.—It is reported that the Prince of Wales has been given a commission in the Tenth Hussars, and will accompany the regiment to Potcheistroom…

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