The War. Capture of a Train
Much inconvenience has been caused to the troops by the fact that the Boors recently captured a train at the Zand River, 35 miles south of Kroonstad, conveying 2000 bags of…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1900
1,602 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 47 of 81
The Transvaal War. Australians Accelerate the Retreat. London, June 23
After the battle of Eerste Fabrieken had been won by the British the Australian Mounted Infantry forming part of Major-General Hutton's Brigade doggedly pursued…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in China. the Chinese Artillery. Too Good for the Allies. London, Sunday Afternoon
Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Gaselee, commanding the Bundelkbund district, in India, has been appointed to the command of the British Indian contingent intended…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. in the Transvaal. the National Bank Funds. Roberts Stops a Cheque. Kruger's Treasury Notes
London, June 22, 6.25 a.m-- Lord Roberts stopped a cheque for £40,000 drawn for the Banque Francaise de l'Afrique du Sud, on the National Bank…
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Melbourne, Saturday.—The steamer Australasian, with another batch of invalided soldiers from South Africa, got alongside the wharf about 10 o'clock this morning. She…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War in South Africa. Offers to Australians. Standerton Occupied. Boers' Activity
THE Rhodesian companies have offered the Australian bushmen now forming part of Sir Frederick Carrington's force large farms in Rhodesia,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →China. Official News. Foreigners to Be Exterminated. Despatch of War Ships and Additional Forces. Fighting at Tientsin. Capture of Taku Forts
MR. W. R. CHARLES, British Consul at Tientsin, on Wednesday last sent a courier with a letter to Mr. Hopkins, the British Consul at Chefu…
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A Reuter message state that the Dowager. Empress has directed the extermination of all foreign residents in China…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. Destruction of Sleepers. London, June 23
The Hollander officials of Standerton burned 20,000 sleepers before they left. GENERAL IAN HAMILTON AT HEIDELBERG…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. the Boer Army. Enemy Repulsed Near Senekal London, June 27
The advance guard of General Louis Botha's army, which was defeated at Eerste Fabricken, has returned to the hills, 18 miles from Pretoria…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in China. Tientsin Relieved. Admiral Seymour's Command. Rising in Canton Feared. London, June 26
Rear-Admiral Bruce, now in command of the British squadron, cables to the Admiralty that he was not aware that Vice-Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour, with the international force of 2300 men proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War! War!
On Thursday night next, in the Mechanicsi Institute, Messrs. Ford and Co's Cinematograph will introduce 3000 feet of living pictures of the latest and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Story by Kipling
THE " S. M. Herald" is publishing " The Way that He Took," a new war story by Rudyard Kipling. It is written in Mr. Kipling's characteristic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late War News. London, June 27
The advance guard of General Louis Botha's army, which was defeated at Eerste Fabricken, has returned to the hills 18 miles from Pretoria…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War London June, 25
GENERAL BULLER occupied Standerton on the Transvaal Natal railway, 61 miles north-west of Volksrust, on Friday. He seized 18 locomotives…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Battle of Eerste Fabrieken. London, June 21
Further details received of the battle at Eersts Fabriken (Hatherley), which is 15 miles east of Pretoria, on June 11 and 12 show that the generalship was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. Enemy Repulsed at Tafelberg. Victoria Crosses. State of Field Hospitals. London, June 27
THE advance guard of General Louis Bothe's army, which was defeated at Eerste Fabriekin, has returned to the hills, eighteen miles from Pretoria…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Illustrations from the War
THE theatograph will be used in the Oddlellows' Hall next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening. for the exhibition of war and other pictures of special interest. The production will be under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. the Victoria Cross. the Military Hospitals. London, June 27
THE decoration of the Victoria Cross has been bestowed on Major E. J. Phipps Hornby, Sergeant Parker, Gunner Lodge, and Driver Glassock, all of Q Battery, Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. the Boer Raiders. Treachery of Railway Officials. London, June 29
The combined movement by the British to crush Commandant do Wet, now raiding in the northern portion of the Orange River Colony, has commenced…
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