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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
863 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 44
Colonel Baden-Powell reported that Mafeking was all well on the 13th instant. The Boer cordon had been greatly relaxed, enabling the garrison to mako a sortie and capture '20 head of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Skirmishes have occurred near Elandslaagte between outposts. General Buller is pushing forward fresh troops…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Archibald Forbes, the famous war correspondent, is dead…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENERAL JOUBERT died suddenly at Pretoria. Kruger takes full command. General Joubert died unexpectedly from an internal complaint on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Joubert has a nephew who is engaged in the shipping trade of the port of Sydney, Michael Davitt, ex-M.P. for Mayo South, has arrived at Delagoa Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Roberts' advance on Kroonstadt is expected to occupy a week. He will not start for some days yet. President Kruger has convinced the Boers that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The British Ministry has long been represented at the South African war by relatives. Now a Minister himself proposes to go. This is the Duke of Norfolk, Postmaster-General, who will resign…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →August Fischer was a citizen of the world. Though incidentally a native of Australia, his ancestry was too…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Joubert, Commander-in-Chief of the Boer forces, died unexpectedly from an internal complaint on Tuesday night. General White, speaking at Capetown, paid adunt Joubort's vomains aro lying in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—H. Rider Haggard, who spent six years in South Africa, and had exceptionally favourable op-portunities of studying the question, gives a fearful account of the cruelty of the Boers to the natives,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Now is the time,' says the Nowra Leader, 'when the war fever is upon us, to interview soldiers.' So being aware that Mr. J. Collins, of this town…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Newtown (Sydney) Presbyterian Church was crowded recently, a sermon on the war in South African being delivered by the Rev. W.T.Dunn, who took…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the battle of Karee on Friday last the British numbered 10,000 men, with of 42 guns. The Boers had 3000 men, with several guns. The British losses were 19…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PRESIDENT KRUGER has had the British mines on the Rand undermined, also the British buildings in Johannes berg…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The reports sent of the disaster to the British convoy at Kornspruit are generally correct. The scouts, artillery and waggons entered the Spruit without…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE are various reports of the Doonspruit disaster, but the following are generally correct. The scouts, artillery, and waggons entered the spruit without suspicion, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further particulars of the battle of karees on Friday last state that the Boer force was largely comprised of Johannesburg police. The enemy's defeat is ascribed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is certainly a crumb of comfort to a man about to fight for his country to know that in battle not more than one in every thousand projectiles of all descriptions and weight take effect…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Frank Wilkinson sends the following interesting letter to the Daily Telegraph. After ten days of hard fighting Cronje has surrendered to Lord " Bobs," and weave now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →They were camped at a little back blocks township in the Never Never, unknown to geographers, but marked on the survey map of the shire as…
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