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The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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The War Against Irish Landlordism. LONDON, Friday.Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Monday 17 June 1901 · page 1

Mr. Cooper, an [?]opnlar landlord in Sligo, connty, Ireland, has been awarded £1400 as, compensation for the malioious burning of timber on his…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages.] the Netherlands Railways. German Holders of Sorip. a Question of Terms. London

Barrier Miner · Monday 17 June 1901 · page 2

Germany, it is announced, is endeavoring to secure fair terms from Great Britain for the expropriation of German holders of Netherlands railway certificates,…

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The War. South Australian Losses. A Black List. Eight Killed; Six Wounded. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 June 1901 · page 1

The Governor (Lord Tennyson)to-day received a cable message from Cape Town reporting the following casualties to members of the fifth and sixth South Australian…

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Awful War Disaster. a Body of Victorians Surprised. Sixty Men Killed and Wounded. Over One Hundred Prisoners. Two Guns Captured. [Reuter's Messages.] London, Sunday Night

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 June 1901 · page 2

Lord Kitchener cables to the War Office particulars of an awful disaster to a body of Victorions. Two hundred and fifty Victorian…

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The War. Reuter's Messages.] Fight at Pienaars River. a Delayed Report. Heavy Boer Losses. London

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 June 1901 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at Durban (Natal) cables hat Kitchener's Sconts and the Bush Veldt Carbineers on May 30 surprised a Boer laager at Pienaars…

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The South Australians. Killed and Wounded

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 June 1901 · page 2

Lance-corporal Richard [?]rick [?] [?] 19 [?] old, son of Mr. W. A Ha[?] F[?]n, applied to go with the [?] contingent but only left with the [?]…

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War Honors. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 June 1901 · page 2

The local military authorities have received notification regarding war honors for South Africa, that further distinctions will be…

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[?] Wednesday, June 19, 1901. It Is War!

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 June 1901 · page 2

THE [?]g disasters which have befallen the South Australian and Victorian [?]gents during the past few days and which the whole Empire…

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The War. The S[?]kool Spruit D[?]. Aaxiety is Victoria. MELBOURNE, Tuesday Afternoo

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 June 1901 · page 1

Great anxiety is [?] regarding the [?] of the men of the Victorian troops reported to have been killed and wounder at S[?]kool Spruit. The news of the disaster…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages.] a Patrol Attacked. Boers Near Warm Baths. London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 June 1901 · page 2

Commandant Maritz, with 150 men, surrounded a British patrol. Two of the patrol were killed, two wounded, and 20 captured. A British column is…

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The War. The Steenkool Spruit Disaster. The Fallen Victorians. Killed and Wounded. Official List of Names. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 June 1901 · page 1

The Premier (Mr. A. J. Peacock) this afternoon received a cable from Cape Town giving the names of the men of the Victorian fifth contingent who fell in the disaster at…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages.] the Steenkool Spruit Surprise. London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 June 1901 · page 2

So far the only particulars which have reached here regarding the Steenkool Spruit affair relate to the officers. Surgeon-Lieute[?]nt Palmer, of the…

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General Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] Russia and the States at War. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 June 1901 · page 2

Owing to America imposing an import tax on Russian petroleum Russia has now decided to tax American resin ned bicycles…

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The War. The British Prisoners. Total Nearly 20,000. The Skeenkool Spruit Disaster. [Reuter's Messages. London, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 June 1901 · page 4

The Boers now in the hands of the British as prisoners of war number 19,242. Major-General Elliott's Boer prisoners,…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages.] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 21 June 1901 · page 2

The steamer Lagos sailed from Cape Town on June 13 with the fourth and fifth New Zealand contingents, comprising 638 officers and men. The…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages.] London, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 8

G[?] De Wet and Mr. Steyn have [?] trying to cross the railway line between Sta[?]derton and Heidelberg, in the Transvaal…

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Liberals and the War. the Alleged Barbarities. London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 4

Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at the Conservative Association's lunch[?]on in London, said that the "meanest…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages.] in the Concentration Camps. London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 4

There are now 12 Boer refugee camps in Orange River Colony, besides nine specially for natives, requiring the weekly importation of 88 tons of…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages] Sentences of the Treason Court. London

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 June 1901 · page 2

The Treason Court sitting at Burghersdorp has sentenced seven members of the Venterstad Committee to terms of imprisonment varying from…

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2nd Editi0n Miner Office, 3 P.M. the War. [Reuter's Messages.] London, Sunday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 June 1901 · page 4

Messrs. Merriman and Saner, the Boer delegates to England, have sailed for South Africa. General De Wet is reported to be at…

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