South African War. Botha Offers to Surrender London
THE "Daily News" says that General Botha has offered to surrender conditionally. Lord Kitchener is at Middleberg…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
314 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 16
The Boer War
In tho House of Commons last week Mr. Brodrick the Secretary of State for War, stated that courts of inquiries had been held into 20 cases of British surrenders in South Africa. The…
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It is in no carping spirit that I write to suggest that the War Office promptly cables the Government of each of the Australian colonies to purchase horses by the thousand…
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It was that field of dread memory— Magersfontein. From dawn—when the belching hill front of fire had mowed in swathes the ranks of the Black…
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One of the "Daily Mail" (London) special correspondents, who has recently returned from Pekin, writes:…
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LATER particulars of the recent pursuit of De Wet state that Brigadier General Plumer over-took Commandant de Wet on February 17 at the depot westward of the railway near…
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A recent cable message stated the American Senate had discussed in secret the matter of a new gun which was able to penetrate any armour. The following brief account of…
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COLONEL BABINGTON unearthed a Krupp gun, a pom-pom, and some ammunition at Zandfontein. Private A. E. Benson, of the N.S.W…
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COMMANDANT KRENTZINGER captured 60 rifles and 2000 cartridges at Pearston. Mr. Balfour confirms the statement…
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FURTHER particulars have been received of the gallant manner in which Captain J. C. Markes, of the Coldstream Guards, and Privates Sheehan, O'Brien, and Greeu, of the Victorian Mounted…
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In the German army attendance at religious service is almost compulsory, yet no Government is more tolerant of the religious convictions of its soldiers…
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THE Pretoria correspondent of the TIMES in a telegram bearing Wednesday's date reports that the negotiations between General Lord Kitchener and General Louis Botah at…
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FIFTY Boers, under Commandant Trichardt, hoping to capture provisions, undermined the railway at Heidelberg and shot the Kaffirs in their kraal to prevent the plan…
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O God, to whom our fothers bowed In strennous years of storm and cloud, Grant us the guerdon of Thy grace— Show us Thy face!…
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No higher authority on things relating to South Africa is to be found than Mr. Rider Haggard, the eminent novelist. Considering his acknowlegedly close acquaintance with the Boers and Boer…
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COLONEL DE LISLE'S plan to hem the Boers in the fork of two rivers failed by Kruitzinger forcing a passage at Leeuwdrift…
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CAPTAIN A. Fitzpatrick, of the New South Wales Artillery, Staff Officer with the forces in Natal, has been invalided and has proceeded to England. Lieutenant G. H. Legge, of the…
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One dreamy, drowsy afternoon toward the end of June, having nothing particular to do, I sauntered in the direction of the Chelsea College…
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Once, when I was military attache in Paris, I was holding a conversation with Gambetta, and he said to me. "In those days there are only two things…
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IN the House of Lords last week Viscount Wolseley, the late Commander-in-Chief, moved for the production of all papers connected with the advice which he had given to the…
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