Some War Notettes
Russia, whenever she wants anything and thinks she can get it, is like the wolf and the fable. Wolf: What doryou mean by dirtying the stream? Lamb: I didn't, sir; the water is…
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 34 of 44
What England Pays for War Horses
It is difficult to estimate the enormous expenses incurred by the English Government for the transportation to South Africa of the necessary war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War in China. Prospects of Peace. America Wants to Retire. London
The U.S. Government has intimated its readiness to withdraw American troops from Pekin and to permit the Imperial Court to return and open negotiations with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in South Africa Kruger's Further Flight. Commandant De Wet Reported Dead. London
The Boers have released all the British prisoners (2778 men and 50 officers) whom they were holding at Nooitgedacht. President Kruger and all his officials have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer War. Battle Near Machadorp. Further Particulars. British Pushing Eastward. Reported Death of De Wet. London
LORD ROBERTS reports that the Boers' resistance near Machadodorp was finally broken. The enemy retreated on hearing that all the Johannesburg police had been killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Invalided Soldiers
Returned invalided soldiers do not excite the same interest as formerly. This is the result of familiarity—it breeds indifference, even where it doesn't contempt. Another (yet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War in China. Peking Looted. Prize Fund of £1,000,000. Foreigners Killed at Shensi. American Overtures for Peace. London
THE allied troops marched through the Imperial Palace at Peking, and established sentries in various places. Other parts of tho city were looted with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cost of the Transvaal War
IN an article on the cost of the Transvaal War the SATURDAY REVIEW says:—During the last year of its existence in 1899 the Boer Government took from the mining industry, in round…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War in China. Suicide Epidemic in Peking. the Question of Withdrawal. International Complications. London
Russia has regained the whole of the Manchurian railway. There is an epidemic of suicides in Poking. Whole families are hanging themselves…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Boer War Ladybrand Besieged. Kruger and Steyn Living in a Railway Carriage. Further Defeat of the Boers. the British Advance on Lydenberg. London
FOUR commandoes, under Grobelaar, Fouries, Lemmer, and Sasebrack, are beseiging Ladybrand. The situation is desperate, General Hunter is hastening to the relief of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boer War. Transvaal Annexed. Boers Capture Trains.plumer Defeats Pretorius. Ladybrand Hard Pressed. Boer Defeats. General Buller Checked. Botha in a Strong Position. London
LORD ROBERTS has issued a proclamation formally annexing the Transvaal. The Boers cut the railway at Klip River, stopped and burned a British supply train, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War in South Africa London
Lord Roberts has formally annexed the Transvaal to Great Britain. Commandant Theron's scouts have cut the railway at Klip River, and burned a supply…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War in China. London
The opinion expressed in Chinese ports is that the withdrawal of the allied troops from Pekin must inevitably mean the beginning of the partition of China…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Returned Australian Soldier Cowardly Officers. Treatment in the Hospitals
Private Cotter, who went from Sydney with the Mounted Infantry to South Africa, and who has returned home invalided, is at present in Maitland on a visit to friends,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Boer War Boers Retreating From Lady Brand. Great Ovation to Baden Powell. London
GENERAL HAMILTON is making a wide turning movement, and threatening Lydenberg from the south-west. The Boers are removing the stores…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Letter from South Africa. Trooper Oakes in a Tight Corner. the Privations of Soldiering
WRITING from Rhenoster River, Vredefort, on 31st July, 1900, Trooper W. E. Oakes says:--When we left Pretoria we all thought we were going to march straight to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Invalided Soldiers. Sydney
The steamer Wilcannia arrived at Adelaide yesterday from Capetown with thirty invalided soldiers on board…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Soldier's Life. Trooper Oakes' Experiences
IN a lengthy letter to the editor of this journal Trooper Wally Oakes moralises thus on the beauties of campaigning in South Africa. In company with 50 other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa London
The incessant attempts made by the enemy to derail trains and dynamite the railway lines near Johannesburg were promptly stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War in China. Russia's Proposals. London
The American Charge d'Affaires at Berlin reports that Germany considers it necessary to retain her troops at Pekin. Other accounts state that the Kaiser proposes…
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