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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1899

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War in Sight. British Terms Refused. Boers Uncompromising. a Decision Inevitable. London

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 20 September 1899 · page 3

The reply of the Transvaal Government to the ultimatum of Great Britain has been handed to Mr. Conyngham Greene, the British Agent in Pretoria. All reports agree that in the reply the…

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38,000 Troops for the War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 September 1899 · page 2

WITH the departure from England during the last few days of four battalions of infantry, three regiments of cavalry, and additional artillery and the Army Service Corps from India of 10,000…

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The Transvaal. War Feeling in Pretoria. Ladies' Nursing Corps Formed. Boers Fortifying the Frontier. the British Cabinet Again Summoned. London, Sept. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 September 1899 · page 2

Sir Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner in South Africa, has issued a proclamation threatening penalties for inciting the native races of South Africa to rebel…

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Reported Conciliatory Despatch From Kruger. British Troops Ordered to the Natal Frontier. British War Supplies. London, Sep. 19

The Yass Courier · Friday 22 September 1899 · page 2

It is persistently rumoured at Capetown that President Kruger has sent to Mr. Conyngham Greene, the British agent at Pretoria, another conciliatory…

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Three Soldiers Poisoned. London, Sept. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 2

Three soldiers have died suddenly at Aldershot from the effects of ptomaine poisoning, after having partaken of some cheese. The cheese is alleged to have been traced to a…

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Poisoning of Soldiers. London, Sept. 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 September 1899 · page 4

Other soldiers at Aldershot besides the three who died suddenly have been affected by ptomaine poisoning following upon the eating of cheese which is alleged to have been shipped from New Zealand…

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A War Correspondent's Opinion. the Boers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 September 1899 · page 2

MR. FREDERIC VILLIKERS, the well-known war correspondent, now in Sydney, was interviewed by an Evening News representative on Tuesday evening on the threatened war in the Transvaal. He was…

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Cable News. the Transvaal. War Regarded As Inevitable. French Papers Urge the Boers to Activity. Despatch of War Material. Afrikanders Urge President Kruger to Yield. London, Sep. 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 September 1899 · page 2

Mr. J. Rose-Innes, Q.C. (formerly Attorney-General in Cops Colony), and other Afrikander members, have urged President Kruger to yield to the British demands, as Mr. Chamberlain now…

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The Transvaal. Firmness of Great Britain. Kruger Held Responsible for War. War Material From Holland. London, Sept. 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 1

The Daily Chronicle slates that President Kruger has written to a friend at Capetown saying that he has spent three hours in prayer, and is perfectly happy, as "the Lord has told him to…

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The Transvaal. War Inevitable. an Ultimatum Despatched. Reserves Summoned. Boers Assembling in Great Force. London, Sept. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 October 1899 · page 4

THE latest advices from South Africa state that two batteries of Boer artillery and 1000 Pretoria burghers have left the capital for Volksrust, near the Natal border. Two thousand Boers are assembling…

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The Transvaal. Declaration of War Expected. Trains and Telegraphs Stopped. a Commoner Supports the Government. London, Oct. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 October 1899 · page 2

Sir. J. F. Lease, Q C., M.P., in a letter to his constituents, warmly supports Great Britain in her action regarding the Transvaal on the ground that the interests of humanity and international law are…

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The Transvaal War. Volunteers From Yass

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 5 October 1899 · page 2

A NUMBER of the Yass Volunteers have handed in their names for active service should a contingent be sent from this colony to the Transvaal. It is anticipated…

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Transvaal Affairs. — a Casusbelli. — Aggressive Actions on the Part of the Boers. — No Settlement Likely. — Consequences of War

Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 2

NEWS received by cablegram yesterday of the situation in the Transvaal is sufficiently alarming to arouse the minds of the most apathetic. President…

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Declarations of War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 5

As well as in many other matters, there is no clear conception in the public mind regarding a declaration of war, end this can scarcely be a matter for wonderment when we find authorities on…

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A Relic of the War

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 2

Many old soldiers now feel the effects of the hard service they endu[?]ed during the war, Mr Geo. S. Anderson of Rossville, York county, Penn., who saw the hardest kind of…

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Modern Military Organization.— British Military Operations of Recent Date.—their Probable Application to the Threatened War in South Africa.—the Boer Government and Its Pretensions.—the Question of Supremacy the Real Question at Issue

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 October 1899 · page 3

IT has been said that the British is not a military but a warlike nation, the distinction being that while not given over as the continental nations…

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War Map of South Africa

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 12 October 1899 · page 2

WE have received from the publisher a map showing all the principal divisions, strategical points, railway routes, rivers, &c., also ground plans of Pretoria,…

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War Conditions

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 2

Admiral Pearson signalled to the fleet on Thursday morning as follows:— "War with the Transvaal is in a…

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[Telegraphic.] War Declared British Troops Marching to the Front. Sydney, 2 p.m

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 2

A cable has been received by Admiral Pearson stating that War with the Transvaal is in existence from today…

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Latest News. [By Telegraph.] the Transvaal Crisis. War Declared. Sydney, Thursday, 3.13. p. m

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 2

ADMIRAL Pearson has received a cable announcing that war with the Transvaal has been declared…

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