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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
863 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 25 of 44
The Dowager Empress of China has directed the extermination of all foreign resident. The American warships Monadonek and Brooklyn have been ordered from the Pilippines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A runner from Tientsin reports that the foreign settlement in the city had been almost entirely destroyed. The Europeans were fighting hard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Rhodesian companies have offered the Australian Bushmen now forming part of Sir Frederick Carrington's force large farms in Rhodesia, on terms which are said to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Geo. C. Craig, author of "China War, 1860," writes—The anti-foreign rebellion in China, north and south, has broken out into a big war between the Dowager Ecuprese, all Europe, Japan, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Probably the youngest mounted soldier in the world, and certainly the youngest in Australia, is Roy Clayton Welch. Born at Maitland just seven years ago, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE FINE HITTING OF THE MAUSER. THERE is, I suppose, no small-bore bullet that can effect the shine perforations as this bullet can, I have here a specimen,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No troops will be withdrawn from South Africa until the close of the war. W. Burdett-Coutts, writing to the London TIMES, gives horrible details of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Lyne has telegraphed to the other colonies, suggesting that a uniform Australian medal be given to the troops from this colony taking part in the South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir William McCormac, in the outrent issue of the LANCET, tolls tho following story to illustrate the longhths to which things have gone as regards food during the siege of Ladyemith:—A shell full…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J, Sheldon, a war correspondent from South Africa, states that General Gatuere was a victim of circumstanees, and that his mishaps were not the result of incompetence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The talk o' the town to-day is the new development in relation to the China war. On Thursday a cable was received from Mr. Chamberlain asking the Governments…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE experience of the present war proves that victory is gained by using the best and most upto-date guns, and that the force which clings to old-fashioned weapons courts defeat. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Russian commander at Port Arthur reports that four companies of Russians, with an equal number of other foreigners, relieved Seymour's force on Monday night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The combined British movement to crush General De Wet has commenced. The British have already had several successes near Senekal and Roodewal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fifty tons of candy have (the Hongkong DAILY PRESS of April 13 says) been sent to the soldiers in the Philippine Islands by the commissars department of the army during the last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The second contingent of invalided soldiers arrived in Sydney on Thursday—Coronation Day. Their reception, though very warm, was hardly as enthusiastic as that which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tho latest from China states that Admiral Seymour's expedition has been relieved and has reached Tieutsin. Fifty thousand Chinese prevented Seymour's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No troops will bo withdrawn from South Africa until the close of tho war. Mr. Botha, a member of the Cape Colony Parliament and of the Africander Bond, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The vessels of the Australian squadron which have gone to China are the Mohawk (1770 tons), Wallaroo (2575 tons) and Lizard (715 tons). The Lizard (715 tons). The Lizard visited the Clarence at the time of Governor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WITH regard to shell wounds, I will say nothing except that we met with both common shell and shrapnel. Nothing is more magnificent than the…
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