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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
211 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 11
THE root of all thee trouble is the Transvaal is the treatment of the Uitlanders by the Boers. This was ackinowledge by sympathisers with the dominant oligarchy even before the mischevious Jamieson…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, FRIDAY.—Thousands of Boers crossed the Tugela River, on the Natal border, took possession of the railway, and cut the telegraph wires…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GREAT BRITAIN has replied to the Boer ultimatum issued on Monday last. The reply states it is impossible to discuss so peremptory a document. A strong British force has left Mafeking, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWS has been received of a desperate engagement in connection with an armoured train. It occurred at a place called Kraalpan. There were 15 British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Boers and 400 Hollanders have occupied Newcastle. Heavy fighting is reported at Spytsfontein, near Kimberley, where the British were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The engagement of the British with the Boers when the ammunition train was attacked near Mafeking was a revere one. The fire of the Boers was concentrated upon the engine of the armoured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boers are rapidly advancing on positions held in force by British troops. Free Staters hold the railway in the vicinity of Kimberley…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The war between the Boers and Orange Free State on the one band and Great Britain on the other has now begun properly, after long expectation. As war changes the fate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COUNCILS of war, they say, never fight-- that is why Napoleon and the Iron Duke rarely, or never, summoned them. But there is reason to believe that the council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A great battle is raging at Glencoe. It is rumored the British captured the Boers' position, and also five guns. The Boers are shelling the British troops from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The war that has broken out between British and Boers in South Africa will be a benefit to our producers in the colonies. Large quantities of grain, forage, meat and horses will be required for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE politics of the next hundred years were going to be tariffs and nothing else. They were not going to war for the amusement of Royal families as in the past, but they meant practical…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This sounds rather historical in our ears, but though we have a treacherous foe to deal with there will be brilliant fighting, but no contemptible slaughter in "this dark valley."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE South of Africa was originally colonised by Dutchmen, and when the colony was annexed by the British in the war with the Netherlands. These people, dissatisfied with British rule,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Falcon" writes: To repeat, it looks as if the big fighting in connection with the Transvaal were to be done on the western frontier. Here, then, is a map which will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Boers admit losing 70 men killed and wounded during the attack at Mafeking. A battle is imminent in Natal, about 15 miles from Ladysmith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The debate in the Assembly on the despatch of an Australian contingent to South Africa was distinguished in one or two instances by the expression of several extraordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TELEGRAMS daily received by THE Sun give the progress of the war, but it is said that owing to a censorship of news by the Cape authorities details of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHAT a sad reflection it is, that all the boasted intellectual and moral improvement of this enlightened century, with its alleged wonderful progress in science, education, sense of justice and recognition…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As instancing the difficulties of the British position, the war correspondent of the Herald, writing from Maritzburg, before the war started, says:--The principle way of egress from the…
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