War in South Africa. General Buller. Seige of Wepener. Further Changes. Besiegers Despondent. Boer Conference. Harsh Treatment of Colonial Prisoners. Seige of Wepener Raised. Bombardment of Mafeking. Remarkable Recovery. London. April 13
Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1900 · page 4
GENERAL BULLER'S movements consist in keeping the Boers busy in Natal. New boots and uniforms have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. Siege of Wepener
Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 2
Four days’ fighting has taken place between Colonel Dalgety’s isolated force and Boers at Wepener. During the fighting at Wepener 18 of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. News From Mafeking. London, Wednesday Afternoon
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 2
Three hundred Boers are approaching Smithfield, south of Bloemfontein. MAFEKING. A hundred mounted police have left Salisbury to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[Reuter's Telegrams.] the War. American Pro-boers. St. Helena Prisoners. London, Tuesday Afternoon
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 4
The American pro-Boers have dispatched a messenger boy to Kruger with a message on behalf of 22,000 children. The irritability of the pro-Boer party has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. the Siege of Wepener. Despatch of a Relief Force. London, April 14
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 4
Thousands of Boers with eight guns, two pom-poms (Vickers-Maxim), and two Maxims, have surrounded Lieutenant-Colonel Dalgetty's force of Cape Rifles at Wepener…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. Censure of General Officers. the Spion Kop Reverse. Wepener Still Besieged. Marching of Relief Columns. Boer Appeal to Afrikanders. London, April 18
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 2
The despatches of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren, of General Sir Redvers Buller, and of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts regarding the retreat from Spion Kop on January 24 have been published…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nursing the Wounded
The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 1
Sister Dora Burgees, one of the nurses who, went Sydney to South Africa, writes a friend from Pietermaritzburg, Natal, under date of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War. the Siege of Wepener. British Casualties. Besiegers Despondent. Four Commandant Wounded Australians and Canadians in Company. London, April 16
The Yass Courier · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 2
The siege of Wepener on the eastern border of the Orange Free State, is still continued by the Boers. In four day's fighting the British had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News. London, April 19
The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 3
A lack of railway trucks is delaying the arrival of Lord Roberts's supplies at Bloemfontein. Portugal has declined the offer of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →H.m.s. Powerful and the War
The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 2
H.M.S. Powerful has arrived at Portsmouth from the Cape. The detachment of her bluejackets who took part in the defence of Ladysmith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Lord Methuen's Report on His Defeat
The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 1
The London Gazette of March 16 publishes (the San's Francisco Call states), General Lord Methuen's report of the actions at Magersfontein…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War. Investment of Wepener. London, April 11
The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 2
At Wepener, which is being defended by Lieutenant-Colonel Dalgety with the Cape Rifles, 11 British were killed in the [?] with the Boers on Monday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poetry. the Soldier's Deeam
The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 1
Our bugles sang truce, for the night clouds had lower'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky;…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War in South Africa. Severe Censure of Officers. Appeal to Afrikanders. Important Changes Expected. Supplies Delayed. Sickness Among the Troops. London April 18
Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 4
THE despatches of Sir Charles Warren, General Buller, and Lord Roberts regarding the retreat from Spion Kop on January 24 have been published in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prisoners of War
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 5
Prisoners of war have always been an inconvenience since the practice of selling them for slaves went out. It was evaded for a time by massacring them on the field,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. London
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2
Lack of railway tracks is delaying the arrival of Roberts supplies at Bloemfontein. Portugal has declined die offer of a loan from the Transvaal Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Mafeking. London
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 4
Further news of a reassuring character has been received regarding the position at Mafeking. Lieutenant Smitheman, of Colonel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. Important Operations Expected. Proposal to Destroy the Mines. Scanty News. London
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2
News from the seat of war is scanty and contradictory. It is believed that important operations are proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Important Dispatches. Officers Censured. Seige of Wepener. Lord Roberts’s Censures. London
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2
The dispatches of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warron, General Sir Redvers Buller, and Lord Roterts regarding the retreat from Spion Kop on January 24th have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. Government Urged to Act. Supplies for the Advance Delayed. Illness Among the Troops. London, April 19
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 4
In commenting on the despatch of Lord Roberts regarding the Spion Kop reverse, the "Standard" says that after Lord Roberts's censures on Sir Redvers Buller and Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →