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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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Lord Roberts has commenced a great enveloping movement, with 18,000 troops. The mounted forces are sweeping the whole of the enemy's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three British divisions, respectively tinder Lieutenant- General Tucker, Major-General Pole-Carew, and MajorGeneral Hutton (who commands the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New South Wales Patriotic Fund has reached £37,665 and the Bushmen's Fund £31,879…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Rosebery, in a speech delivered in Edinburgh on April 3, said:—"Although the prospects of the war in South Africa are righter, we must remember that we have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New Zealand Mounted Infantry serving with Major-General Hutton were the first of the British to enter Brandfort…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New South Wales Patriotic Fund has now reached £33,386 and the Bushmen's Fund (including a proportion of the sum donated by London subscription) £35,714…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The committee which secured the horses for the Imperial Bushmen's Contingent reports to the Chief Secretary that in all 269 troop horses were obtained at an avenge cost,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Major-General Hutton, who led the British advance on the Vet River, found the enemy, with two long-range and four other guns, strongly holding a passage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence has been discovered showing that friction existed between President Steyne and Commandant Botha. Steyn protests that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New South Wales Patriotic Fund has now reached £38,363…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In response to a request made by Lord Roberts, many Imperial and colonial officers are applying for positions as district commissioners in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"We have to-day," he continued. "been eye witnesses of what our good friend and brother General Joubert has done to secure for us the re-possession of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lord Roberts' decision to burn all oath-breakers farms has impressed the burghers with the necessity of remsining at home…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commandant Lukas Meyer was in command of the Boers in the fight at the Vet River. The enemy's losses are reported to include 40 killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Information has reached the War Office that when Major-General Ian Hamilton succeeded in driving the Boers out of Winburg he captured a Beer big…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Henry Lucy writes in his weekly London letter:—"A strong desire is felt at headquarters that at the close of the war in South Africa General Roberts should for some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Major-General Hutton's Mounted Brigade is at Welgelegen, close to the railway line, north of Winburg Road. A body of Royal Engineers are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lieutenant Marchison, of the Mafeking garrison, who shot and killed Mr. Parslow, a London war correspondent, has been courtmartialled. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a meeting yesterday of the executive committee of the Tasmanian Contingent Fund the action of the Mayor, as treasurer of the fund, in refusing to sign a cheque for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Roberts reports that the railway between Brandfort and Smaldeel has been seriously damaged by the Boers. The bridge over the Vet River, he…
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