Field-Marshal Viscount Wolseley, a cable message from London announced yesterday, died on Tuesday in his 80th year. The family of the Wolseleys has been for ...
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Article : 411 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons yesterday Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) referred to the localisation of the Balkan war, and said that the ...
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Article : 59 wordsHis Excellency the Governor and Lady Barron propose to hold an afternoon reception at Government House on or about April 10. ...
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Article : 154 wordsYesterday a German aviator, named Scherf, surveyed from an aeroplane the whole of the Bulgarian positions at Chataldja, and supplied the Ottoman commanders ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the Chamber of Deputies yesterday the new Premier (M. Barthou) outlined his Government's programme and upheld the Bill providing for compulsory military service ...
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Article : 44 wordsSome of the newspapers here protest against Austria's pretension to protect the Albanian Catholics, an undertaking in which Italy might claim equal rights. They ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 27 Mar 1913, Page 7
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