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The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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The Killing of Wounded Men. What Lord Kitchener Says. London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

The Hon. St. John Brodrick, Secretary for War, [?] in the Commons last night that Lord Kitchener had advised that it was useless to [?]…

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Insurance Policies and War. London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

Ten of the Tr[?] mining companies [?] the Alliance Marine and General Assurance Company in the English law courts for £22[?],750, the…

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

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 4

By making a sudden feint, Colonel dobell, with the three other columns under Colonels Crewe, Wyndh[?]m, and Doran, converged on Camdeboo and…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages.] the Australian Troops. London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

Lieutenant–Colonel Williams, C.B., P. M. O. of the New South Wales military [?], has sailed from London for Sydney…

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The War. [Reuter's Me[?].] Mounted [?].Unmounted. Daily Mail Wrong Again. London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 July 1901 · page 2

The Hon, St. John Brodrick, Secretary of War, says that the Daily Mail's description of Lord Kitchener's intentions in South Africa are unfounded…

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The War. the Killing of British Wounded. Mr. Bennett Burleigh's Report. Not Well Authenticated. London

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 July 1901 · page 2

Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, says that the reported killing of British [?]ed at Viskfontein is not well…

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The War. a Brighter Outlook. Speech by the Cape Premier. [Reuter's Messages] London, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 July 1901 · page 4

Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, Premier of [?] C[?], addressing the Vigilance C[?] at Cape Town, stated that the [?] at the Cape was brighter…

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

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 July 1901 · page 8

Major Featherstonehaugh has rescued, in the Western Transvaal, 13 Boers whom the British had released on parole and the Boers held as prisoners for…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages.] Mr. Steyn's Letters. Trust in "God and Foreign Intervention." the Boers' Desire for Finality. London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 July 1901 · page 4

A number of important letters were found among Mr. Steyn's baggage, captured at Reitz. Writing to Mr. Steyn on May 10, the…

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The War. Enlisting Boer Boys. [Reuter's Messages.] London, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 July 1901 · page 1

General Schalk[?]rger, ActingPresident of the Transv[?]l, has ordered the enlistment of all Boers over 14 years of age…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages.] the Cape Local Troops. Limiting Their Operations. London

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 July 1901 · page 2

Orders hare been issued in South Africa under which the Cape local troops will in future operate exclusively within the boundaries of Cape Colony,…

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Killing Wounded Soldiers. Further Confirmation. General Botha and the Boers' Degeneracy. London

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 July 1901 · page 2

Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the Daily Telegraph correspondent, whose previous telegrams were very guarded, now.cables that further inquiry confirms the reported…

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The War. [Reuter's Message] London, Sunday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 July 1901 · page 1

The members of the Government of the late Orange Free State captured at Reitz are said to belong to the most fanatical section of the Boer party…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 3 P.M. the War. [?] [?]

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 July 1901 · page 4

The [?] have captured 17 men of the South African [?] near Potrusberg. Out of a total population of 75,000 in…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages.] a Series Op Fights. Boer Officers Killed and Captured. More Captures of Stock. Londan[?]

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 July 1901 · page 2

Major Pine-Coffin, in command of the Fifteenth Mounted Infantry and Essex Volunteers, the other night surprised General Celliers' commando near Honing…

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The War Mast Continue

Western Grazier · Wednesday 24 July 1901 · page 1

Mr Kruger has informed the Boer [?] in South Africa that the war must [?] Every opportunity was lately [?] General Boths and his friends…

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How to End the War

Western Grazier · Wednesday 24 July 1901 · page 1

"An Englishman." writing under this title in the "National Review," recommends that our generals in South Africa should adopt the policy pursued by…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 3 P.M. the War. [Reuter's Messages.] in Cape Colony

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 July 1901 · page 4

[?]r r[?] for two days made a [?]mined attack [?] the town of A[?]n, in Cape Colony. Eventually [?] detachment of Australians with a…

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The War. [Reuter's Messages.] the Death of Mrs. Kruger. Its Effect on Mr. Kruger. a Fresh Trial of Faith

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 July 1901 · page 2

The Morning Post's correspondent, referring to the death of Mrs. Krug[?]r, states that Mr. Kruger is inconsolable. He is too grief-stricken to attend to…

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[?] Thursday, July 25, 1901. Women and War

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 July 1901 · page 2

I[?] nothing else wi[?] do it, the improvement in man's regard for woman will p[?]rhaps some day make war impossible. It has been said that the South African…

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