The War in Abyssinia
General Baldissera, the newly-appointed commander-in-chief of the Italian army in Abyssinia, reports that the late of 7000 Italian troops at Adowa is unknown…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1896
54 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 3
The War in Abyssinia. London, March 11
Fourteen hundred of the survivors of the Italian garrison at Adowa have reached Asmara. Colonel Sir Richard E. R. Martin, K.C.M.G., British Consul in Swaziland, has been appointed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cable News. the War in Abyssinia. London, March 12
Advices received from Abyssinia report that King Mcnelik is willing to permit Italy to retain the River Mareb as the Italian frontier. A strong detachment of troops has left Rome to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cable News. the Upper Nile. a Holy War Proclaimed. London, March 22
The Khalifa, whose stronghold is at Khartoum, and whose forces are held to threaten the Egyptian frontier, has proclaimed a holy war. Several Arab tribes have volunteered to join the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Departure of Dr. Fiaschi for Abyssinia. His Intention to Volunteer As a Soldier for Italy
The " S. M Herald" of Tuesday says :-- As a result of the .disasters in Abyssinia which have recently been experienced by the Italian forces, Dr. Fiaschi, one of Sydney's most trusted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →America and Great Britain. a Fratricidal War [?] Peace with Honor
The possibility of war about the boundary line between Venezuela and British Guiana naturally caused a furore. The President of the United States sent a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →America and Great Britain. a Fratricidal War Averted, Peace with Honor
THE possibility of war about the boundary line between Venezuela and Gritish Guiana naturally caused a furore. The President of the United States sent a despatch to the English Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →America and Great Britain. a Fratricidal War Averted. Peace with Honour
THE possibility of war about the boundary line between Venezuela and British Guiana naturally caused a furore. The President of the United States sent a despatch to the English Premier asking…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Soudan War. London, April 7
Reports received from Cairo state that the Khalifa has abandoned the attack on Kassala, and is about to mobilise the Dervishes at Berber and Murad Wells…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Soudan War. London, April 8
The Khalifa has suspended the pilgrimage to Mecca and is levying a war tax on the natives inhabiting that portion of the Soudan within Khalifa's influence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cable News. the Soudan War. London, April 10
News from the Soudan reports that the dervishes who retired to Tucruf after their defeat by the Italians at Kassala have withdrawn to Osobri. They abandoned their wounded and also a large…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Soudan War. London, April 16
News has been received from Wady Halfa, in the vicinity of the Second Cataract on the River Nile, to the effect that five tribes who are friendly to the British are patrolling both sides of the river in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in the Soudan. London, April 16
Later news from the Upper Nile states that the friendly Arabs are rapidly acquiring discipline under British organisation, and that they have taken entire control of the east bank of the Nile against the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Soudan War. London, April 20
News from the Upper Nile states that there is great unrest at Omdurman, opposite to Khartoum, on the River Nile. The Khalifa's body guard quarrelled among…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Soudan War. London, April 22
The dervishes, before they were defeated by the force under Major H. H. Sidney, entangled a party of scouts who were reconnoitring under the command of Lieutenant M. A. Fenwick…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Abyssinian War. London, April 20
The Russian Red Cross Society has been ordered to Abyssinia to assist in attending to the, natives who have been wounded in conflicts with the Italian troops…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Soudan War. London, April 21
Reports from the Upper Nile state that the unrest at Omdurman, opposite Khartoum, on the Nile, continues, and that there has been further fighting among the Khalifa's body-guard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cable Intelligence. the Transvaal. German Soldiers En Route
London, April 20. -- A detachment of Germans, who recently arrived at Dclagoa Lay were found by the Portuguese officials to have passports for Pretoria, signed by President Kruger, aud…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Soudan War. London, May 2
An engagement has taken place between some of the British forces and a body of dervishes near Akashea, on the right bank of the Nile south of Wady Halfa…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal.—preparing for War. London, May 12
M. C. Van Boeschoten, the Transvaal Under-Secretary of State, who is now in Europe, is making large purchases on the Continent of arms and heavy ordnance…
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