The Canadian Minister for Militia (the Hon. F. W. Borden) proposed in the Dominion House of Commons to-day that the militia force be increased to 100,000, such ...
Article : 44 wordsGeneral Smith in the course of his evidence before the Phil[?]pine Islands Commission admitted that we ordered the [?] Rican troops to fire on a body 300. ...
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Article : 76 wordsMr. Arthur Lynch, the Nationalist member of the House of Commons, for whose arrest a warrant has been issued charging him with treason, is still absent from ...
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Article : 26 wordsThe Swedish socialists have decided upon a general strike with the object of enforcing the granting of universal suffrage. ...
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Article : 27 wordsThe Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons have approved of a scheme for systematic research with regard to cancer. The scheme provides for ...
Article : 48 wordsThe section of the Rhodesia railway between Buluwayo and Zambed will be opened next year. At Victoria Falls a railways bridge 500 ft. hight is being built ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Landsthing the Danish Upper House has passed a resolution to sanction the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States until a plebiscite of ...
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Article : 77 wordsThere has been a heavy decline in the shipment of beef from the United States to England LONDON, April 15. ...
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The Capricornian (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1875 - 1929), Sat 19 Apr 1902, Page 21
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