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The wars & local soldiers, 1914

8,444 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 250

Martial Law. Probable Proclamation. African Labor War. Government's Drastic Methods. Dynamiters to Be Shot on Sight. London, Tuesday Morning

The Sun · Tuesday 13 January 1914 · page 5

The full service of trains will be resumed in Pretoria today. In order fo safeguard safe running certain districts in the Transvaal and the Orange…

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Soldiers of France. the Black Legions

The Sun · Tuesday 13 January 1914 · page 4

An amusing feature of the eternal squabbles that are going on between France and Germany lies in the fact that the Berlin Government eyes with deep resentment the…

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Death of Colonel Goodlet a Modest Philanthropist. Good Citizen; Good Soldier

The Sun · Tuesday 13 January 1914 · page 7

Colonel John Hay Goodlet died at his late residence, Canterbury street, Ashfield, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. By his death, Sydney has lost an,…

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Bulgarian Assurance. No New War Contemplated. London

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 8

Speaking, yesterday at the reopening, of the Bulgarian Parliament, the Premier energetically repudiated the rumor that the Government, in the spring, or at any other time,…

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Labor War. in South Africa. Railways at a Standstill. Leaders Arrested for Sedition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 55

The men employed in the railways in the Transvaal, Orange River, Natal, and the Cape provinces have gone out on strike to enforce demands for an increase of wages to a minimum…

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Country Aflame. Martial Law Proclaimed. Industrial War in South Africa. Crisis Rapidly Approaching. Capetown, Tuesday Evening

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 1

The [?] of Trades has proclaimed a general strike throughout South Africa. [?] proclaimed here to-night by the Government…

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A Soldier and a Cook

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 8

Quietly and without suspicion the Common-wealth Government has inaugurated a mighty revolution. On the defence Estimates appeared a sum of £600 for military cooking schools…

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Japanese Defence. More Sailors, Less Soldiers. New Naval Programme. LONDON,Wednesday Morning

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 7

The Japanese Budget provides for a new naval programme. The naval appropriation for the. current year has been increased by £3,500,000, while…

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Fugitive Mexicans. Six Generals, 3,000 Soldiers. Action by the States

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 9

PRESIDIO, Texas, Tuesday. -- The United States Government is interning six Mexican Federal generals and 3000 fugltive soldiers from the battle at OJinaga, at Marfa, Texas, until…

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The Soldiers' Burden

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 8

Following upon the recent encampments some complaint was made as to the unnecessary burden thrown upon the troops by obliging them to march with the full equipment. The…

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Embryo Soldier. Cadet's Complaint Sifted. "The Conscientious Objector."

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Towards the end of last session Mr. Higgs (Q.) created a stir in the House of Representatives by reading a letter from a cadet, then undergoing detention…

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Death of Mr. J. H. Goodlet. Philanthropist, Business Man, and Soldier

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 11

A leading spirit in the philanthropic circles of the State and a well-known identity in commercial life, Mr. J. H. Goodlet, died at his residence, Canterbury House, Ashfield, yesterday…

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Killed in Action

The Sun · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 6

Holford Gordon Roderick, aged 28, a boilermaker, was working on H.M.A.S. Brisbane at Cockatoo. Island yesterday week, when he lost his footing on a ladder and fa[?]…

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Science's Part in War

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 7

The current enterprise of scientific expe[?]mentei's is developing into a romance—[?]thing far more sensational than any melodramatic novel or tragedy (says Further Hull…

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War, Veterans Ready. Mobile Column Organised

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 7

JOHANNESBURG. Tuesday Afternoon.--The Government has formed a mobile column, composed of 200 war veterans, for emergency service at any point…

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United States Army. Preparedness for War

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 7

WASHINGTON, Wednesday.--General Wood has proposed to place the United States Army in a reasonable state of preparedness for war, suggesting the establishment of a trained…

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Effect of Tripoli War. Unemployment in Italy

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 7

ROME, Tuesday Evening.--The official statistics show that, as a result of the Tripoli war, there has been an alarming increase of unemployment. In many towns from 25 to…

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Civil War. Colonisation Failure. South African Industrial Industrial Trouble

Co-operator · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 4

Close upon the recent revolt of Indian workers on the Rand mines there follows a most extensive industrial upheavel upon the State…

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Waste of War. Human Toll in the Balkans. Revelations of a Census. Vienna

The Sun · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 8

A striking illustration of the terrible human waste of war is furnished by a census that has been taken of the new territories acquired by Bulgaria as its share of the…

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"We are not Going to be Frightened by the Menace of Civil War" Mr. Asquith's Great Speech at Leeds LONDON, November 25

The Catholic Press · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 14

The Prime Minister visited Leeds last, night to address the concluding meeting of the National Liberal Federation which has been in conference. Exceptional interest…

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