Is the War Over?
There is some humor in going to war after all. It is not all 'storms of bullets' etc, and the experiences of 'A' Battery are pathetically told by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1900
863 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 26 of 44
The War. London
LORD ROBERTS has ordered all civilians returning to Johannesburg to retire to Bloemfontein. General Coke shelled 2000 Boers who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A War for a Stool
THE surface fact about tire "little war" in which Britain is engaged with the Ashantis is that the belligerents are fighting to decide which shall have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Moral from the War
The experience of the present war proves that victory is gained by using the best and most up-to-date guns, and that the force which clings to old-fashioned weapons courts defeat. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Boer War. Sydney
A COMBINED British movement to crush De Wet has commenced. The British have already had several small successes near Senekal and Roodeval…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. General Coleville Ordered Home. Civilians Ordered Back to Bloemfontein. Capture of Komati Poort. London
LORD ROBERTS has ordered all civilians returning to Johannesburg to retire to Bloemfontein. [?]ing to General Coke shelled 2000 Boors who occupied a strong position at Amersfort, near Liang's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in China. German Ambassador Killed. Reported Change of Dynasty. German Emperor's Statement. Peril of the Ambassadors. London
When Admiral Seymour on his expedition to-wards Pekin reached the Chinese armoury near Tientsin on June 23 friendly advances were first made towards the international force by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. London
Lord Roberts has ordered all civilians returning to Johannesburg to retire to Bloemfontein. Major-General Coke shelled 2000 Boers who occupied a strong position at Amersfoort,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Course of the War. Lord Roberts Angry. Inactivity of Colvile. a Series of Crushing Movements. Sydney, Wednesday, 3 P.m
As an Empire we must not subordinate tue issue of the Boer war to that in China, delicate, dangerous and mysterious as the situation in Pekin may be. A period of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Soldiers As South African Settlers
Major Ricarde-Seaver, the picturesque friend of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, is responsible for a considerable controversy in the colonies just now, and which side to take in the dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unhappy India. Soldier's Picture of the Distress Among the Natives
Nothing could accentuate more forcibly the cry of India's suffering millions than the following letter from a non-commissioned officer in the Royal Fusiliers to his parents at home…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Boer War London
THE Boers made a desperate attempt to regain Ficksburg, but were repulsed after an hour's fierce fighting. General Clery and General Hart's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Notes
During the American Civil War the Confederate cavalry used up their horses at the rate of eleven per man in twelve months. It is estimated that our mounted forces in South Africa will need four…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Moral from the War
THE experience of the present war proves that victory is gained by using the best and most up-to-dato guns, and that the force which clings to old-fashioned weapons courts defeat. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. London
Mr. Balfour states that the Salisbury Government's South African policy will not be modified owing to Eastern developments. Mr. Steyn has fled to the mountains…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Romance of the "Spoils of War."
Although there is as much glory as ever to be won on the fields of battle, even the least mercenary of our soldiers must sometimes sigh…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Mr. Chamberlain on the " Terms of Settlement."
Addressing the Grand Council of the Liberal Unionist Association at the Birmingham Town Hall, Mr. Chamberlain delivered a great oration on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Prisoners Liberated. General Duller in Pretoria. Boers Capture General Rundle. London
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH states that the total number of deaths at Bloomfontein from enteric fever up to the 3rd instant is 949. LONDON, FRIDAY…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence Boys at the Front. Letter from Trooper James Maher. The First Colonial Soldier in Kroonstadt
TROOPER James Maher. son of Mr. Richard Maher, of Harwood Island, writes as follows to his mother: —Gordon's Siding, five miles beyond Kroonstadt, Orange Free State, May 18th, 1900. Dear Mother,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War in China. Christians to Be Exterminated. Reported Massacre Of the Ambassadors. Allies Defeat the Chinese. Emperor and Empress Dowager Poisoned. Wholesale Massacre of Europeans. Tientsin Hard Pressed. London
The Emperor of Germany declares the Powers have no idea of partitioning China, but wished to reestablish a powerful Chinese Government. The Empress-Dowager (who was reported a…
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