The Transvaal War. Relief of Ladysmith. an Exciting Scene. Securing Pensions. Children in the Trenches. London, Sunday Afternoon
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 4
Lieutenant-General Sir George White, V.C., in his official report of the relief of Ladysmith, states that Major-General Lord Dundonald, galloping into Ladysmith on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[Reuter's Telegrams.] the Transvaal War. Movements of the Forces. Retreating Boers. Strengthening Pretoria. London, Monday Afternoon. Movements of Boer Forces
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 2
It is anticipated that General Joubert will find a difficulty in concentrating 35,000 men in the Orange Free State. Five thousand of the Ladysmith and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Relief of Ladysmith. Boers in Retreat. General Joubert's Army. British Advance From Colesberg. Kruger Wants Peace. London, March 5. "Long Tom."
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 2
Later news states that the fire of the guns of the Naval Brigade prevented the removal of "Long Tom" from Isimbulwana…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cronje's Laager. a Charnel House. Joy of the Prisoners. War Regarded As Hopeless Fears of the Women. 4300 Men Sent to Capetown. London March. 1
The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 2
General Cronje's camp on the Modder River, near Koodoes Berg, was a scone of pollution, Carcases of animals were collected in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →He War. Relief of Ladysmith. Universal Rejoicings. Throughout the Empire. Congratulations of the Queen. Appalling Bombardment. Hasty Retreat of the Enemy. Concentration at Winburg.. Proposed Foreign Intervention. Governments Unresponsive London, March 1
The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 2
General Sir Redvers Buffer has entered Ladysmith. The garrison was living on horses and mules, and each man received half a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Relief of Ladysmith. Battle of Pieter's Hill. Doggedness of the Boers. Women in the Trenches. the Losses. Privations During the Siege. Water Purposely Polluted. Eight Thousand Hospital Cases. Conference of Presidents. London, March 3
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 4
Further particular have been received of the British victory at Pieter's Hill, which led to the relief of Ladysmith. Huge boulders sheltered the trenches on the nek leading to Pieter's Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. London
The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 7 March 1900 · page 2
The Canadian troops will garrison Halifax, in order to release tho Leicester Regiment for active service. The Sydney trooper McLcnnon is dead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Massing at Winburg The-relief of Kimberley. Cronje’s Forces. in Northern Gape Colony in the Orange Free Stare London
The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 7 March 1900 · page 2
It is declared in Brussels that General Jouc[?] [?] in Chief, is concentrating 50,000 men at Win[?] the new [?] of the Orange Free State. It is added that the country…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. Relief of Ladysmith. Joubert's Forces. Enemy at Norval's Pont. Desire for Peace. Stormberg Evacuated. Resistance Expected. 4000 Boers Surrounded. Defence of Pretoria. London March 5
Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1900 · page 4
WHEN the relief of Ladysmith was accomplished there remained only four days' full rations. Lord Roberts has wired to Sir G. S…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thrilling Stories of the South African War
Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 4
NEW YORK, January 17.—Mail advices from London dated January 10, say :— Some of the most brilliant work in the way of descriptive writing ever done by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. Australians at the Front
Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 2
Trooper S. M’Lellan, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, who was shot an Arundel last week, gradually succumbed to his wound…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Battle of Dordrecht. the Cost of the Relief of Ladysmith. Boers Entrenched. London, Tuesday Afternoon
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 4
Latest accounts to hand go to show that the Boers remaining at Dordrecht fought stubbornly to the last. The British colonials were used to "stiffen"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Imperial Budget. Proposals of the Government. a War Loan of £30,000,000. Increased Taxes. London, March 6
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 4
IN the House of Commons last night Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered his Budget speech. He said that the Government proposed to borrow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. Campaign Hardships. Troops Live on Bran Porridge. Sixty Dead Boers Discovered. Cape Colony Rebels. the Boers in Retreat. London, Wednesday Afternoon
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 2
It is thought that supplies are now plentiful among Lord Roberts' army at Osfontein, although the entire force had to live for days on fresh meat and porridge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. Stormberg Evacuated. Pursuit of the Enemy. a Boer Force Surrounded. on the Road to Mafeking. British Losses. London, March 6
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 4
Reuter's correspondent reports that the Boers evacuated their position at Stormberg, north of Sterkstroom, on Sunday night. Later…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. Enemy Facing Lord Roberts. Entrenching and Mounting Guns. a Terrific Artillery Fire. Boers Outflanked. Cattle and Stores Captured. Natal Free of the Enemy. Typhoid at Ladysmith. London, March 7
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 2
The enemy's position faces the British lines at Osfontein. The Bores are mounting guns and are entrenching…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Loan
Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 4
IN the House of Commons on Tuesday night the resolution authorising the raising of the war loan of £30,000,000, was agree to by 161 votes to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lecture on the War
The Yass Courier · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 2
On Wednesday evening next the Rev Mr. Ellis of Gunning will deliver a lecture in the Mechanics' Institute on Boer or Briton. The subject will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cost of the War
The Burrowa News · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 2
The British newspapers, in dimming the probable Budget, insist on making the cost at the war a first charge on the revenues of the Orange Free State and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Letter From the War
The Yass Courier · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 2
THE following letter has been received by Mr. T. Jones from his brother Charlie, who is now in the thick of the fighting:--…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →