The Boer War. London
THE amended casualty list shows the British losses at Brakenlaagte were 86 killed and 216 wounded. General Kitchener has ordered the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
314 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 16
The Boer War. London
PATROLS of district mounted volunteers have been worsted in Cape Colony by insignificant Boer forces, suggesting, treachery…
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The amended casualty list shows the British losees at Brakenlaagte were 86 killed and 216 wounded. General Kitchener's weekly report of the Boer…
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Here is an illustration of one of the ways they prepare for war in times of peace on the exercising ground of the Russian Army. On the top of an embankment a number of…
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GENERAL KITCHENER has ordered the shooting of all khaki-clad Boers. The October output of the Band mines was 33,393ozs…
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A BOER column is still operating in Cape Colony, but has been hard pressed by the British for some time past. Mre. Steyn, the wife of the…
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Watch those hussars—light lean fellows with hairless faces, riding grey horses; each man carried a lance, from which flaunted a black pennon…
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AT the recent encounter at Heilbron the Boers made desperate efforts to recover 15,000 cattle. After four hours' fighting the British scouts fixed…
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It is stated that by the middle of January the columns of Lord Kitchener will be thoroughly freshened. The army will also have an abundance of remounts…
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A BOER woman who is violently anti-British and who is an tomato of the refugee camp near Pietermaritzburg writes to a friend stating that these who complain must lie. Another inmate…
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MOST of the German newspapers publish contradictions of the stories of the British war atrocities which previously appeared in their colums…
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MR. HENRY W. LUCY, writing to the S.M. HERALD on October 11, says:— Tuesday was the second anniversary of the outbreak of war in South Africa, and on…
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THE Boer raider Commandant Fouche shot two privates belonging to the Connaught Rangers whom he captured at Dordrecht. The reason for his…
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THIRTY-FIVE minors on tho Band, have been put over the border for going on strike for full pay. The minors were allowed to return to the Rand on condition that they worked for 5s per…
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On October ll the Boers invade British territory and began the war. The British troops upon the spot, weak in number, were hard put to…
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PRIVATE William Wood, of the 3rd New South Wales Mounted Infantry, died of enteric fever at Standerton. Private C. J. Gosper was accidentally drowned in the Vaal River…
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GENERAL FRENCH reports that the forces of Commandants Myburg and Fouche have been scattered with heavy loss…
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EARL SELBOURNE says that for every month the burghers are prepared to continue the struggle England was prepared a year…
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A HINT from an unexpected quarter that one or two powers would be glad if the war in South Africa was protracted in order to keep Great Britain occupied has astonished and alarmed the…
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THE SITUATION at the front seems to be rather worse than was generally imagined, until recent disquieting rumors got into circulation…
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