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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
863 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 28 of 44
PRINCE TUAN denies participating in the bloodshed at Peking. He says he did his utmost to protect the Legations, and attributes the outrages to the fury of the Boxers at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fear has been expressed that a considerable proportion of the New South Wales soldiers in service in South Africa will remain in the country after the war is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All the members of President Steyn's late Government have surrendered, persuading Steyn that it was useless to continue the struggle. Commandant De Wet has solemnly sworn that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FURTHER particulars with regard to the Nitral Nek mishap states that the Scots Greys' guns were in advance of the main body when the Boers opened…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENERAL DORINE defeated the Beers with heavy loss at Krugersdorp. Buller has dispersed the enemy from the Paardekraal railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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 2 →[?]E is reported that Commandant Do Wet has imprisoned President Stoyn, owing to the latter's desire to surrender. The Boers evacuated the kopjes to the north…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OFFICIAL figures were submitted at Washington recently which showed that the cost of the American soldier per annum was 1502 dollars. This individual sum, it is worth noting, is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Europeans in the Poking Legations made a gallant resistance, but finding the position hopeless they made a sortie, killing 200 Chinese. The latter then bombarded and demolished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE reactionaries in China have resolved on a ruthless extermination of foreigners throughout the Empire, and to make China a sealed book to other nations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is reported that De Wet imprisoned Steyn owing to his desire to surrender. The Boers evacuated the kopjes north and north-west of Pretoria without firing a shot,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →That night the men of Saint Aubin, of Nueil, and of Aubiers were assembled at the cross-road in the wood. Foret called the names and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The fate of the Foreign Ambassadors at Pekin is still uncertain. The Viceroys of Nankin and Waucbang and other officials deny the truth of the massacre, and they…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We are making a frantic effort down here to hold the Governor-General—our "G.G." as a a sporting wit has put it. Why the idea did not prevail at the start goodness only knows,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further particulars of the massacre state that at the British Legation, where all the European people at Pekin apparently made their last stand, provisions were scarce; but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A BOER has been arrested at Hatherley at whose residence bar gold was found. Wolmarans, one of the recent peace delegates, on his return home to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captain H. C. Hamilton, of the Queensland Bushmen, has died of dysentry at Marrandellas, Rhodesia. It is propesed to form a defence force reserve of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts has ordered the Boers' wives and children at Pretoria to rejoin the men fighting at Pioneer's Poort, thus lessening pressure on the food supply…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, MONDAY.—During the absence of a selector named Mawbey, who resides near Gilgandra, in the Coonamble district, several blacks broke into the homestead, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Major-General French, Commandant of the New South Wales Defence Forces, has written to " The Times," outlining a scheme for the…
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