A Soldier's Story
"The funniest thing I heard in South Africa, said a soldier recently invalided from the front, "was told me by the Boers while I was enjoying…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
314 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 16
The Boer War
THE committee appointed to inquire into the best means of settling reservists and discharged soldiers on the land in South Africa, a committee of which Mr. Arnold Forster, M.P., is the chief…
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MR. JULIAN RALPH, in giving us the history of "The Friend"--the paper run by the war correspondents at the front, has had to contend with several…
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LORD KITCHENER reports that an additional 41 Boers have been killed, 27 wounded, and 160 taken prisoners, in addition to 70 who surrendered last…
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Only the other day (wrote the Manila correspondent of Leslie's Weekly) the Kansas volunteers got under a fire so heavy that, after spreading out in line of skirmishers, the…
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DURING the hearing of an alleged slander action--C. M'Ivor v. Major Rennie--which ended in a farthing damages for the plaintiff, a curious side-light was thrown upon the…
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COMMANDANT MALAN, with 400 Boer raiders, attacked the town of Richmond, in Cape Colony, and demanded the surrender of the village. The…
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LORD Methuen engaged the Boers at Welgeboow Spruitt, in the Western Transvaal. Twenty-six Boors wore killed and some were taken prisoners. The British also captured large quantities of…
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THE sensational reports on the condition of the Boer refugee camps have been characterised by Mr. Adrian Hofmeyr as "highly colored." The refugees, adds Mr. Hofmeyr, who has visited the…
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COMMANDANT FOUCHES' forces have raided the native territory in the eastern portion of Cape Colony. They attacked a town named Maclean,…
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A BILL authorising a £60,000,000 war loan has been read a second time in the House of Commons, and carried by a majority of 180. It was alleged that…
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MR. ANDREAS DE WET, who claims to be a nephew of Commandant Christopher do Wet, is arousing an anti-British demonstration in Brussels and Ghent. He alleges that the British…
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IN the House of Commons last week the bill authorising the rising of a loan of £60,000,000 for the purposes of the war, as outlined by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his budget…
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KRUGER'S obstinacy is embarrassing the pro-Boer agitators. The "Daily News" declares the Boer fighters alone are entitled to be…
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GREAT BRITAIN declines all liability for debts contracted by the Transvaal since the war, but does not repudiate the loans issued previously…
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Lord Kitchener's despatches show that between March and May 6 the British captured 35 guns, including two Long Toms, ono 4-7, one Creuzot. In the last four months 7048 Boer belligerents…
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BY attacking the constabulary posted at Houtkop, north-west of Vereeniging (a railway station on the northern bank of the Vaal River) the Boers captured an old 7-pounder screw gun…
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A BRITISH column, under Major-General R. G. Broadwood, has surprised a Boer force at Reitz, in the north east of Orange River Colony, capturing the…
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Another batch of soldiers have returned—400 Bushmen headed by Colonel Mackay, The men, generally speaking, are in the pink of condition, and are just now being lionised by their friends…
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Two foreign officers plotted to seize the transport Armenian while couveying 900 Boer prisoners to Bermuda. A Boer informed the authorities in time…
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