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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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Lord Kitchener reports to the War Office that several small parties of raiders are returning north to the Orange River. Some of the Cape rebels who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE dog seems destined to play an important part in future warfare. The German army is now provided with a large number of four-footed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the course of an interview, Mr. Kruger said he approved of General De Wet's action in shooting the Peace Envoys in the Orange River colony as a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ten thousand men have now been enrolled in the Cape Town town and suburban guards. Commandant Beyers, with 1200 men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In consequence of the determined, advance of the Boer commandos into Gape Colony. Lord Kitchener has rapidly transfered 20.000 of his troops…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Systematic collection's of Boer families and stock are being made in convenient centres. Voluntary refugees are given advantages over those families whose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A [?] Victorian contingent is to be [?] to south Africa. There is quite a rush for delation in it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The announcement of the disarmament of all civilians of the Cape has come as a thunderbolt to the disloyalists. The penalty for a contravention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A sixth Victorian contingent is to be sent to South Africa. There is quite a rush for inclusion in it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eleven farmers have been arrested and taken to Cradock, charged with drilling and inviting the invaders to their district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In a fight at Bushman's Kranz on the 16th instant the British casualties [?]alled 16, chiefly among the First Battalion of the Rifle Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Major-General Babington has expelled the Boers from Makors Kraal. Piquetberg, 70 miles north of Cape Town, is crowded with Dutchmen,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Private Finnigan, of the New South Wales Bushmen, has been killed [?]Vlakfontein. The Royal Commission appointed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In a fight at Bushman's Kranz on tha 16th instant the British casualties totalled 16, chiefly among the First [?]ttalion of the Rifle Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Executive Council yesterday afternoon agreed to the following appointments as lieutenants in the fifth South Australian contingent:âRoland Herbert Cudmore,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following officers have been appointed to the command of the Federal Contingent for New'South Wales —c[?]onel L[?]etter, to [?]ommand; C[?]ptain An[?]ll, second in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It has been decided that the fifth South Australian Contingent shall consist of 23 officers and 296 men. Thia ia the second contingent in I[?]perial pay which the State…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Engineering solves this problem. Any opaque substance will act as [?] reflector for electric waves, such a[?] a wet duster, or the surface of water,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The New Zealand contingen[?] for South Africa departed by the steamer Cor[?]wall on Saturday. A great crowd assembled, but there was no demonstration. A ru[?] is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The southward march of the Boer commandoes operating in the neighborhood Calvinia, in Cape Colony, has been checked, and Major-General Settle,…
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