Death of an Australian War Correspondent Mr. H. H. Spooner Succumbs to Enteric Fever
Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 2
YESTERDAY the proprietary of the Evening News received a cable from their agent at Capetown, announcing the death, from enteric fever, of Mr. H. H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams. the War. Free Staters Driven Back. Buller's Advance. Kruger Consults an Oracle. London, Tuesday Afternoon
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 4
Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Rundle, commanding the 8th Division of the Army Corps, and Major-General Brabant's Caps Colonial Brigade, having checkmated the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. Mafeking Attacked. Food for Another Month. Retreat From Kroonstad. Occupation of Kroonstad. London, May 16
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 2
The correspondent of the London Standard at Kroonstad states that the British residents assert that most of the foreign attaches, the Russian attache being conspicuous, directed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Citizen Soldiers and Reoulars
Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 2
THE war correspondent of the Daily News at Orange River records as illuminative anecdote illustrating the methods by which solidity is estab…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. Attack on Mafeking. Advance of the Relief Column. Campaign in Natal. Boers Concentrating on the Vaal River. London, May 15
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 4
A report from Kroonstad states that the Boers are withdrawing from the Biggarsberg in Natal, and also from the southern and western borders, and are concentrating on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. Boer Treachery. the Boers Will "Try Again." Luxuries in Mafeking. the Advance of General Buller. London, Wednesday Afternoon. Abusing the White Flag
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 2
The incident of the abuse of the white flag at a farm house near Kroonstad is confirmed. Sixteen Boers, concealed on the farm, Sixteen Boers, concealed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonial Casualties. Wounded and Fever- Strtcken
The Yass Courier · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 2
London, Tuesday.—The following casualties and fever cases are reported among the Australasia troops at the front…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War
The Burrowa News · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 1
The Transvaal War is now happily over. And while we now sing praises to God for his deliverance and the victory of our brethren, and the restoration of pure and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Transvaal War. London, May 12
Crookwell Gazette · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 4
Lord Roberts' bodyguard of colonials was the first to enter Kroonstad. Commandants Botha and De…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News. London, May 17
The Burrowa News · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 2
Lord Salisbury read a cable message, in the House of Lords announcing the relief of Mafeking, but said the news was unofficial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. London, May 15
Crookwell Gazette · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 2
GENERAL BULLER has occupied Dundee, 46 miles by rail northeast from Ladysmith. Many of the Orange Free…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late War News. London. May 16
The Burrowa News · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 2
General Sir Redvers Buller has occupied Glences. The Transvallers have evacuated the Biggar's Berg…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Advance of Lord Roberts. London, May 13
The Burrowa News · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 2
An official report states that Field-Marshal Lord Roberts entered Kroonstad yesterday unopposed. Ex-President Steyn fled on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Kruger's, Superstition. Consults a Seer. Peace in June. Will Die in Three Months
The Yass Courier · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 2
London, May 15, 3.40 p.m.— President Kruger has consulted a Dutch seer, who prophesied that peace will be declared in June, and that the President…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. Retreat From Kroonstad. Mafeking Attacked. Operations on the Zand. White Flag Outraged. Glencoe Occupied. London, May 15
Goulburn Herald · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 4
350 WOMEN in Pretoria have demanded arms and ammunition. They undertake to do the work to enable the officials to go to the front…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Volunteers Wounded
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 4
Trooper W. G. Taylor was severely wounded at Koetzees Drift on May 5. Trooper C. J. Tonkin was severely wounded at Zand River on May 7. Trooper Conroy, of the New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Off to the War
Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 1
The following news, sent to his parents recently, by Mr. 'Jack' Ellis, of Murrumburrah, will no doubt prove acceptable to his numerous friends in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War. London
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 3
Lord Salisbury reap a cablegram in the House of Lords announcing the relief of Mafeking, but said that the news was unofficial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of a War Correspondent
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 3
ON Tuesday the proprietary of the EVENING NEWS received a cable from their agent at Capetown, announcing tho death, from enteric fever, of Mr, H. H. Spooner, their correspondent at the front…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Biseiged Mafeking. London
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 2
Advices from Pretoria state that an attack on Mafeking was commenced on Saturday, and that. the native quarter of the town was burned. LONDON, Wednesday…
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