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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
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CRONJE'S force is confined to the river bed, in a space two miles long, 150 feet wide and 50 feet deep. He has abundant food supplies, but his ammunition 18 failing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2000 Boers still hover round the British position north of General Cronje's laagar. The shelling was continued on Thursday. The cordon was drawn tighter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is said that our patriotic action in sending troops to South Africa to help the mother country in her war against the Boers will have the effect of booming our butter trade in England. Out of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The news from the Transvaal this week is of a satisfactory nature to those whose sympathies are with the British. Early in the week came the not altogether unexpected news of the surrender of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In South Africa the tide has turned at last, and the plan of campaign as devised by Lord Roberts, now well supplied with cavalry, has brought signa[?] victories to the British arms.While the ranks of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The last ten days have been that of daily combat in compelling General Cronje — the brave yet savage Boer hero—to surrender; and also in daily fighting by Sir Redvers Buller for the double…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Details of the efforts to relieve Ladysmith show that the Fusiliers, Connaught Rangers, and Inniskillings led in several desperate efforts to capture the heigh's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir Redvers Buller fought on action at the Tugela River on December 15 last. His dispatch announcing his reverse was published in the "Glasgow Herald " on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After six days' hard fighting the British established themselves on the lower spurs of Pieter's Hill, about six miles north of Colenso, and ten miles from Ladysmith…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Germans who arrived in West Australia three weeks ago, applied for admission into the Bushmen's Contingent, and were informed that their applications were too late…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Details of the efforts to relieve Ladyemith state that the Fusiliers, Connaught Rangers and Inniskillings led in several desperate efforts to capture the heights north of the Tugela, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The past two weeks have been the greatest and most eventful in British martial history since the days of Waterloo and the Indian Mutiny. The two weeks are tragic, dramatic, romantic and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Several children were found in the trenches at Pieter's Hill after the fighting was over. One baby was wrapped up in a blanket. Sir William McCormac, the eminent surgeon. who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A correspondent from Ladysmith writes:—On Christmas Day the boers sent to Intembicamp to ask for the loan of whisky, but festive season though it was, the request bad to be refused. The Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In your issue of 2nd March, there appears an effusion under the above heading, over the signature of " Britisher," and whatever so-called sedition there may be in the letter signed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Boers are eager to obtain copies of Lord Roberts' proclamation, casting the responsibility of the invasion of Natal upon President Steyn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE War Office officially announces that Ladysmith has been relieved. The British troops have occupied Morefontien, Knilfontien and Rensburg,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Joubert is concentrating his forces at Abraham's Kraal. British scouts report there are now no Boors within 30 miles of Ladysmith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →President Kruger has left P[?]oria to confer with President Steyn. It is believed conference is preliminary to making peace overtur[?]s…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a speech in the House of Commons, said that the Imperial Government proposed to borrow thirty-five millions, including…
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