Transvaal War. the Boers Demoralised. London
The recent drive demoralised the Boers, who hid in the grass, and the beds of the rivers, many shooting their horses. The country is being systematically searched,…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1902
250 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 13
Australian Soldiery
Mr. Kipling's story, " A Sahib's War," in the "Windsor Magazine" for December, gives an estimate of the Australian…
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LOUD MILNER has created Pretoria a municipality, and has appointed ten councillors. Seventy Europeans recently joined General Louis Botha. They travelled through Zululand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer War. a Fierce Engagement. London
LORD KITCHENER reports that while reconnoitring along the Zuikerbosch Rand, in the South Transvaal, on the 12th inst., a battalion of the Malta…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Transvaal War. a British Column Entrapped. London
Lord Kitchener reports that while reconnoitring along the Zuikerbosch Rand, a battalion of the Malta Mounted Infantry were engaged by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer War. London
LOUIS BOTHA and Boer Acting-President Yrying have arranged to meet for consultation in the Eastern Transvaal. A message from Commandant…
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LORD Kitchener's last weekly statement reports 17 Boers killed, 5 wounded, 107 prisoners, 138 surrenders, and 4500 cattle captured. It is officially announced that Pretoria will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transvaal War. Attempt to Break Through London
Commandant Grobelaar, with 150 men, made repeated unsuccessful attempts to traverse the lines held by Colonel Garrett's force, and then filed…
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A SPECIAL, gaol constructed for the accommodation of 1200 ordinary prisoners at Antigua, in the West Indies, will be ready in the middle of April…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer War. London
GENERAL RUNDLE is returning to England from the South African war. 600 Boers, driving a herd of cattle, rushed a British cutpost at Pothasberg…
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British columns operating in the Drakenberg I Mountains are pushing the main body of the Orange River Boers towards Harrismith. Commandant Malan and a following of 200…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Credit
THE gigantic debt entries against the nation under the heading of "The War" are a fruitful subject of comment, and are certainly alarming…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boer War. London
THE combined sweeping movement continuos in South Africa. De Wet is still within the toils of the British columns…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Transvaal War. London
On February 27,600 Boers were captured or killed. General De Wet's son and secretary were among the prisoners. Commandant Manie Botha was killed. The British drove…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boer War. Important British Successes
THE House of Lords, after a warm debate, negatived by 88 rotes to 25 a motion for the appointment of a Joint Committee to inquire into all contracts for the outfit, the supply, and the…
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LORD KITCHENER Rays that the successful completion last Thursday of the sweeping movement on the Boers was appropriate to Majuba Day, which 13 also the anniversary of the battle of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer War. London
LORD KITCHENER'S weekly report shows the Boer losses were 80 killed or wounded, whilst over a thousand were captured or surrendered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Death-cry of War. Zola Thinks This War Will Be the Last
Is it a dream to believe that we are witnessing war's last agony? Do not a thousand symptoms indicate the fact? May not the furore caused by the question of military…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transvaal War. London
On February 23rd the Boers rushed with a great mass of stock the position held by the New Zealanders, overwhelming the pickets. The New Zealanders made a splendid defence, but were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer War. America Refuses to Intervene. London
KRUGER is bitterly disappointed at the declaration of President Roosevelt to the Boer delegates that America would not intervene in the war…
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