The War in China. London
Major-General J. T. Cummins, with a force of 1100 men, and two guns, is protecting the railway at Yanstsun. The reported burning of the Roman…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
314 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 16
The Boer War
THE rapidity with which Lord Kitchener has moved the troops to combat the invasion of Capo Colony, the announcement that reinforcements are on their way, and the proclamation of martial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War in China. London
The American Minister at Pekin confirms the reported acceptance by the Chinese Emperor of the Foreign Ministers' demands. The German troops in China captured…
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THE military authorities have taken over all the supplies in Kimberley, which was recently reported to be short of food. A consignment for the Boors from Capetown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir Redvers Buller on the War
At a municipal function in Southhampton where the freedom of the city was conferred upon him, Sir Redvers. Buller said: The British…
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Router's correspondent states that the Empress Dowager executed Yu Hsien, exGovernor of Sbansl. Thirty-thousand Chinese troops are at…
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AT a conference of Premiers in Sydney on Monday it was unanimously agreed chat another Australian contingent should be sent to South Africa. On tho suggestion of Sir William Lyne…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Verestchagin on War
I weld remember talking of war with Verestchagin, the great war painter, who has taken part in the wars he has painted. "War" said Verestchagin, "makes beasts…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →South African War. London
THE farmers in the district of Clanwilliam refuse to sell their horses to the Imperial troops, and dare the British to take them…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Indian Soldiers in Sydney
The Indian Contingent at present in the metropolis are the objects of great curiosity, and a rope enclosure has bean put up to keep the crowd of visitors back. Some of the customs observed at the camp…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Young Soldier
PROBABLY the youngest mounted soldier in the world, and certainly the youngest in Australia, is Roy Clayton Welch, aged 7 years, an interesting visitor to the recent Tweed show. Roy is the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in China. London
The Dowager-Empress has telegraphed for the Yunnan force of 15,000 men, armed with modern weapons, from the valley of the Yang-tse northwards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South African War. London
GENERAL BOTHA and Commandant Viljoen whenever pressed retire north to recruit. General Lyttleton at Belfast was…
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The Central Peace Committee formed at Kroonstadt, in the Orange River Colony, in its manifesto to the burghers, says:—"Mr. Kruger and the late Transvaal Government wore twice…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Queen's War Relics
IT is a little known fact that the Queen possesses relics of every war in which her soldiers have been engaged since the beginning of her reign. In ages to come this Royal collection will be of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in China. London
The Emperor and the Dowager-Empress of China have instructed the well-known prcforeign Yang-tse Viceroys, Liu-kun-yi and Chang-chi-tung, to proceed to Pekin or meet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thanks for the Soldiers
Without the soldiers in the Commonwealth celebrations the affair would have been like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. In recognition of that, and because our "boys"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Welcome Home
CONSIDERING the unfavourable weather conditions which prevailed on Friday evening, there was a fair attendance at the Town Hall to welcome home the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Boer War. London
The Basutes report that several commandants, tired of his ceaseless movements, have quitted Commandant de Wet, and have resolved to conduct their operations independently of him…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South African War. Guerilla Tactics. London
ON Saturday, the 12th inst., a Boer force of 1400 men attacked the British posts at Zuurfontein and Kaalfontein, on the Johannesburg-Pretoria main trunk line,…
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