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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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General Sir Redvers Baller, criticising the conduct of the war in South Africa, says that generally speaking the subordinate commanders have lacked…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sixty thousand Boer refugees are now reported to be under British protection, Small bodies of Boers continue to enter Gape Coloby, appearing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Major Dobbin, an Australian, has bean entrusted with the command of the remount depot at Piquetaburg. He has secured 4000 of. the finest horses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Boer force, marching south has been repulsed by the British near Reddersburg, in Cape Colony. LONDON, Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonel De Lisle has occupied Calvini[?], in western Cape Colony, the Boers retiring on Kenhardt, Colone[?] Haigh is driving the Midland commando…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Kruger, it is announced, is still promising General Botha European intervention in the war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Standard's Pretoria correspondent telegraphs that great consternation exists among the Boer leaders on the confines of Swaziland, and that fear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LORD ROBERTS, our "Bob[?]"—we must call him that—came back to us yesterday (says the Daily Mail of January 3[?] one year and ten days after he went from us, vanishing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Major-General Pole-Carew, Mr. H. E. Duke, M.P., Mr. Ivor Guest, M.P., and Mr. J. W. Spear, M.P., were among the guests at the annual banquet of the Plymouth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Schermbrucker, a member of the Cape Legislative Assembly, is raising a corps of loyalist German farmers in the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenders for £11,000,000 worth of 3 per cent. Exchequer bonds, repayable in 1905, were opened yesterday. Over £25,000,000 was tendered, at an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE remarkable capacity of the B[?]ers for appearing and disappearing makes it extremely difficult to follow, from the brief cabled items, the progress of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts, in this official despatches on the war, specially mentioned the I following Australians as having distinguished themselves in the campaign:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Extensives thefts of military stores have been discovered in Natal. Six railway employees have been arrested, and a hotelkeeper and several storekeepers are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The opening of the Imperial Parliament yesterday by the King was full interesting features. The Royal princes and princesses were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lientenant-General French is reported to be driving a large force of the enemy in the direction of Pietrieff. He prevented the Boers breaking back, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Pott, who was Transvaal consul at Delagoa Bay until recently, returns to Pretoria by permission in his private capacity…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Despatches from South Africa chronicle a nnmber of small skirmishes. A force of 100 Boers, while engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Kitchener, in view of the heavy expenditure on the war in South Africa, asked the Government for financial assistance, and the Hon. St. John…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonel De Lisle, with the Australian mounted infantry, is now at Carnarvon, to the north of Calvinia…
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