South African War
Mr. E. Haffenden has received from Roodipoorb a letter from Trooper J. Johnson (a one-time resident of Ulmarra) dated Dec. 2, 1900. He writes:—"On the trip from Sydney…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
314 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 16
A War Trophy for Sydney
Sydney is to han official Boer War trophy. This is a gun, a 12-poundcr Krupp, which was captured by the Now Soath Wales Rifles on November 6th. It is not much, so far, but it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Guerilla. War in South Africa
Mr. John Stuart has an interesting and highly instructive article in the Morning Post on the guerilla phase of the war. Mr. Stuart has had a long and varied experience…
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A SYSTEMATIC collection by Boer families of their stock into convenient centres is proceeding. The refugees are mostly acquiescing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Prince of Schemers. How Muravieff Prepared for War Through peace
Tragedy dogs the footsteps of the Foreign Ministers of Czar Nicholas II. His first Foreign Minister, Prince Lobanoff, died of an instant from…
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LIEUTENANT-General C. Tucker, commanding the 7th Division, has been appointed Governor of Bloemfontein, vice Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter, who has been invalided. Major General…
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A CABLE from South Africa announces that Troopers Finnegan and Milville were both killed, and Sergeant-Major Weir severely wounded. Corporal Spier is dangerously ill…
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ANOTHER of England's gallants, Peter Mackay, formerly of the 93rd Highlanders, shuffled off unobtrusively in a poor-house at Invercargill (N.Z.) lately. He served in the Crimea, India,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Man of the War. Dr. Leyds, Intriguer and Organiser. "At Home" at the Transvaal Legation
Writes a Brussels correspondent—"If the 'drastic and dramatic mensures' of our friends the enemy are only exasperating enough to keep our marauding bands' in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Returned Soldiers. Entertained by the Scottish Rifles
ON Friday evening a complimentary smoke concert was tendered by the Maclean Company of Scottish Rifles to Troopers H. D. See and James Maher, of the First Australian Horse, who recently returned…
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MR. Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent of the DAILY TELEGRAM, states that the majority of the members of the Afrikander Bond have commissioned Mr. J. X. Merriman to counsel…
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THE commandant of the Rand threatens to prove that hundreds of Dutch colonists invited the Boers to invade the Cape,and then refused to join them…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£155,000,000 Waiting For War
A SOURCE of amazement to Continental politicians in the facility with which Great Britain obtains the money to carry on the South African campaign. Even our severest critics acknowledge…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Jacko at the War
Every regiment nowadays goes in for a pet. That of the Imperial Volunteers was a monkey. He went out with them to the war, and was present at every engagement, looking on at the turmoil…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in China. London
H. M.S. Plover was sent to the Elliot and Blonde Islands to the cast of the Liac Tong Peninsula, to suppress Chinese pirates, and succeeded in capturing a number of junks. Admiral Alcxleff, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South African War. De Wet Escapes Once More. Kitchener's Declaration. London
ACTIVE field operations on a large, scale are imminent in South Africa. Large numbers of mounted men employed as infantry are being moved by means of…
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FOUR hundred Boers on Wednesday attacked 120 New Zealanders and Queenslanders commanded by Major Turnbridge. The colonial force was engaged in patrolling the railway near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Troops in South Africa. Superior to the British Soldiers
Mr. Frank Wilkinson, special war correspondent of "The Daily Telegraph," returned to Australia by the steamer Wilcannia, after an absence of 16 months, Mr. Wilkinson saw more than the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The War Not Ended
MR. HENRY LUCY writes to the S.M. Herald from London on December 21:— The amazing muddle of Ministers in South Africa threatens even to outlast the war. Soon…
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FEARING a raid, the Portuguese placed all ammunition which the Boers surrendered at Konatipoort on board lighters in Delagoa Bay…
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