The War. Position at Colesberg. Boers in Possession. Reason of Buller's Retreat. London
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1900 · page 4
The Boers at Colesberg have not been surrounded. They hold the whole of the northern Colesberg district, their force extending in a semi-circle east and west, with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. Battle of Vaalkrantz. a Deed of Boer Daring. Ladysmith Confident. London, Monday Afternoon
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1900 · page 2
A splendid deed of Boer daring is reported from Natal, in connection with General Buller's late advance across the Tugela and subsequent seizure of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. General Buller's Position. British Return to Frere. Buller Preparing for a Fresh Advance. Australian Troops in Action. Six Tasmanians Missing. One Western Australian Shot. a War Correspondent Reported Killed. Kimberley Bombarded. London, Feb. 12
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1900 · page 2
Prior to the retirement of the British forces under General Redvers Buller on Wednesday evening across the Tugela, Major-General the Hon. N. G. Lyttelton reported that there were no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. Retirement of General Buller. His Column Re-crosses the Tugela. the Entrenched Position Untenable. Reported Sortie From Lady-smith. Lord Roberts at Modder River. Australians in Action. London, Feb. 10, 7.45 a.m
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1900 · page 4
THE Boers report that the force of General sir Redvers Buller, which on Monday crossed the Tugela, and which advanced on Tuesday and Wednesday, after having been Tuesday…
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The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 3
The forty disloyalists captured by the Queenslanders at Sunny Side have been committed for trial for treason. Lord’ Roberts has again protested to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Extensive War Scheme
Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 3
THE Marquis of Landsdowne, secretary of state for war, explained in the House of Lords on Monday night an extensive scheme for increasing the strength and efficiency of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A War Office in Trouble
The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 4
Scene—War Office, London. Telephones are [?]ging, typewriter clicking, clerks in dozena rushing hitner and thither at express [?] An atmosphere of feverish unrest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tragic Stories of the War. (From “M. A. P.”)
The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 2
One of the most tragic of the stories is that of Lord Bobbers, with which the world is already quite familiar. What die world (perhaps does not know is that in this case, as in many others,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Two More Retir[?]ents. Buller and Macdonald Forced Back. Macdonald’s Rettre[?]st London
The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 2
Major-general Macdonald afe[?]ard the troops [?] are [?]operating from Belmont in the direction of Dougle, in Gr[?] West He [?] to interrept and capture the Boers north of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. General Buller's Position. Return to Frere. Fresh Advance Preparing. Australian Troops in Action. Lord Roberts Preparing an Attack. Ladysmith Able to Hold Out, Boer Bravery. London, Feb. 12
Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 4
PRIOR to the retirement of General Buller's forces across the Tugela, Major-General Lyttelton reported that there were no facilities for the placing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The British Constitution As a Fighting Machine. — Defects and Qualifications. — the Imperial Parliament and the Administration.—confidence in the Government in General, and in the Secretary for the Colonies in Particular.—diplomacy New and Old.—parliament and the Country Practically Unanimous As to the Present Policy in Regard to South Africa.—justification for the Present War
Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 2
IN a recent speech in the House of Lords, the premier, Lord Salisbury, expressed the opinion that the British constitution is not a good fighting…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 2
Sir Bedvers Buller has confirmed the statements previously made in regard to the retirement from Vaal Krantz—the character of the country was not suitable for an advance, which would have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War
Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 2
LORD Roberts was enthusiastically received by the British troops upon his arrival at Modder River. The New South Wales “A” Battery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The American Press and the War in South Africa
Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 4
THE tone of the West Coast United States of America papers has, within the past month or BO, become less truculent towards Great Britain in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. General Buller's Report. an Untenable Position. Australian Gallantry. London, Tuesday Afternoon
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 4
General Sir Redvers Buller has reported that it was impossible to entrench on the rocky sides, or summit, of Vaalkrantz, which the First Battery of the Durham Light…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. Active Operations Imminent. Lord Roberts Preparing an Attack. Colonial Casualties. London, Feb. 13
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 4
Field-Marshal Lord Roberts in reviewing the Highland Brigade stationed at the Modder River stated that the brigade would soon have a chance of avenging its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Latest. the War. Help for Widows and Orphans. a Fruitless Success. News From Mafeking. Buller's Casualties. London, Wednesday Afternoon. a Successful Effort
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 2
An exhibition of tableaux by an aristocratic society of amateurs, given in Tree's theatre, realized £6500 for the fund in aid of the widows and orphans of men of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British Army. Extensive War Office Scheme. New Guns of the Most Modern Type. Two New Army Corps to Be Formed. Encouragement to Volunteers. Commissions Offered to Colonists. London, Feb. 13
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 4
THE Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for we, explained in the House of Lords last night an expensive scheme formulated by the War Office for increasing the strength and efficiency of the military…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poetry. the War
The Burrowa News · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 1
Now let the cry, "To Arms! To Arms!" Go ringing round the world; And swift a wave-wide Empire swarms Round Battleflag unfurled!…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Compensations for War
Goulburn Herald · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 4
THE Pall Mall Gazetto publishes the following letter:- " Sir—The following appear to me to come under the above…
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