The War SYDNEY
Latest cables state that the Boers shelled Ladysmith with 40-pounders. The British force, under General White, returned the fire and quickly silenced the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1899
891 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 23 of 45
The War Balloon. Worshipped by Kaffirs. Consternation of the Boers. London
upon the British sending up a war balloon in order to discover the disposition of the Boer forces in the neighborhood of Ladysmith, the Kaffirs who saw the aerial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Effects of the War. Demand for Coal. Freight Market Excited. Sydney
Private cables received to-day notify that bunkering charges at Cape Town and Durban are advancing very vatidly. The temporary closing of the Natal coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War! In the Transvaal. Another Fight Near Elandslaagte. The Boers Repulsed. The Naval Contingent. Silence the Enemy's Big Guns. Losses on Both Sides. LONDON
Yesterday two brigade divisions of the Royal Artillery and the first infantry battalion of Major- General Denton French's cavalry were Bent to attack the Boer position…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transvaal War. Battle at Ladysmith. Reverse for the British. Two Regiments Capitulate. the Irish Fusiliers and Gloucestershires. After Heavy Loss. Serious Fight Near Elandslaagte. Ladysmith Attacked. Boers Shell the Town. the British Silence Them. a Hot Conflict. London, Monday afternoon
Early to-day the Beers shelled Ladysmith. The fire was an extremely heavy one, the enemy utilising forty-pounders…
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Special arrangements have been made, in connection with the "National Advocate," for giving the Bathurst public news…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Treatment of the Wounded by the Boers. London
The Boers treated the British wounded with great humanity…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Balloon. Worshipped by Kaffirs. London
Upon the British Bending np a war balloon in older to discover the disposition of the Boer forces in the neighborhood of Ladysmith, the Kaffire who saw…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. In the Transvaal. Engagement near Ladysmith. Later Details. the Reason for Capitulation. Both Battalions Surrounded. Positions Mistaken in the . Darkness. Critios on the Situation. Sir George White Must Assume the Defensive. London
The latest intelligence regarding the British disaster near Ladysmith states that the first battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the first battalion of the Gloucestershire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transvaal War. Battle of Ladysmith. Big Armies Engaged, the British Surrender. Over Fifteen Hundred Capitulate. General White Takes the Blame. a Blow to Native and Dutch Loyalty. Battle of Ladysmith. Boers in Superior Numbers. British Troops Total 12,000. Hot Fighting. LONDON
Farmer details of the engagement near Ladysmith are to band. A brigade of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, supported by four batteries, under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News
The following were issued as extraordinaries on the days named. TUESDAY. A force of eighteen thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →War at Cassilis
The other night there was war at [?] The opening engagement which was brought about by a week's wrangling, took place on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Patriotic Fund. to Assist Our Wounded. Sydney
A large meeting was held at the Town Hall this afternoon to consider the question of establishing a patriotic fund. Sir Matthew Harris was in the chair…
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Major general Symons is dead. Schled school admit that the accuracy at the British ar are at Elandsgte was registices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. London
Farther details of the co[?]ganest Dear Ladysmith mrs to hard & brigads of the Kings Royal Rife corps supported by fore batteries, m[?]der the ce[?]d of coional…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Relic of the War
Many old soldiers now feel the effects of the hard service they endured during the war. Mr. George S. Anderson, of Rossville, York county, Penn., who saw the hardest kind of service at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australia's War sang. Conquer or Die
Hark! be[?] the harts is couading A war rate trees over the sea ! Haste [?]ard in ser[?] a[?]nding, To natarnard the rights of the tree!…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. Advertiser Special Wires
An armoured train at Lobatsi, north of Mafeking, came into collision with a party of Boer. During the fight eight of the latter were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Lord Rosebery on the War. London
Lord Rosebery made a brilliant defence of the Imperial Government's South African policy in the course of a speech at Bath on Friday. He asked that the man at the holm of the ship of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Ballooning. a Boer Trick. London
"The Times" states that the balloon used on Sunday to reconnoitre the Boer positions showed these letter very plainly. But the Boers shitted their positions…
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