Boer War. Drastic Measures by Lord Roberts. London, Aug. 20
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 August 1900 · page 2
The army has acclaimed a proclamation issued by Lord Roberts regarding the future treatment of oath-breakers. In the proclamation it is stated that "whereas leniency in the past has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. the Plot at Pretoria. Sensational Evidence How De Wet Escaped. Elands River Garrison Relieved. London, Aug. 17
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 August 1900 · page 4
In connection with the plot discovered at Pretoria, Lieutenant Hans Cardua, of the Staat Artillerie of the Transvaal, was to-day charged before a Court-martial with having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Soldier's Death. To the Editor
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 August 1900 · page 2
SIR,—Yesterday about 3 p.m. we got the sad and unexpected news of Lieutenant Mackellar's death. All hands saddled up and went into town to go to his funeral. It was a very sad eight to see so noble…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. Treatment of Boers. Attack on De Wet
Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 August 1900 · page 4
LORD ROBERTS has issued a proclamation declaring that Boers who break their oath of neutrality shall be punished by death, imprisonment, or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War News. in China
Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 23 August 1900 · page 2
It is reported that street fighting is in progress in Pekin, and that the Dowager Empress is in the Inner City, which is being bombarded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in Manchuria. Aug. 20
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 August 1900 · page 4
General Grodekoff has informed the Czar that the Russians have conquered the Chinese positions on the right bank of the Amur, which has thus been converted into an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boer War. Cardua Convicted. London, Wednesday Afternoon
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 August 1900 · page 2
Lieutenant Hans Cardua, of the Staat Artillerie of the Transvaal, who was charged before a court. martial, in connection with the plot discovered at Pretoria, with having broken his parole and with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. Pursuit of De Wet. London, Aug. 21
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 August 1900 · page 2
Commandant de Wet, whose forces after escaping from Major-General Lord Kitchener were reported to have split up into small bands, has reunited his commandos, and has passed Hebron, 18 mile,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Escape of De Wet. London, Tuesday Afternoon
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 August 1900 · page 4
It has transpired that if Lord Roberta's orders lad been carried out to the letter on two occasions Commandant do Wet would have been captured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. Escape of De Wet. Fighting Near the Western Frontier. London, Aug. 21
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 August 1900 · page 4
Brigadier-General B. T. Mahon engaged Commandant de Wet on the kopjes on the west bank of the Crocodile (Limpopo) River, to the north of Rustenburg, on Saturday, and captured some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Returned Soldiers' Pay
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 August 1900 · page 4
In the Assembly on Tuesday, Mr. Sleath asked the Premier whether he was aware that some of the soldiers lately returned from South Africa had not received any payment for their services up to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. London, August 20
Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 August 1900 · page 2
The army has acclaimed a proclamation,issued by Lord Roberts regard the future treatment of cath-breakers., In the proclamation, it is stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. Machadodorp Evacuated. Desultory Fighting. Boers Contemplate a Retreat. London, Aug. 22
Goulburn Herald · Friday 24 August 1900 · page 4
MAJOR-GENERAL PAGET engaged the rear guard of Commandant do Wet on Monday. The correspondent of the Standard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welcome Home
Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 1
MR Barton received a great ovation in Sydney last week on the occasion of his return from England after rendering great assistance in haying the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War in Manchuria. Aug. 24
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 2
A Russian force. under General Reunickampf, after a 12 days' siege, captured Mergen, in Manchuria, from the Chinese, and tool 20 guns. The losses of the Russians…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer War. De Wet's Whereabouts. Boer Guns Buried
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 4
Lord Roberts believes that General De Wet, burying the majority of his guns, has re-crossed the Magaliesberg mountain range towards the "Free State," with only 300…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. the Hospital Inquiry. London, Aug. 24
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 2
The committee appointed to inquire into the state of the hospitals in South Africa have taken evidence at Capetown. The effect of this evidence was that the Woodstock,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. the British Advance. the Nooitgedacht Prisoners. London, Aug. 23
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 4
General Sir Redvers Buller, advancing from the south, has met Lieutenant-General French advancing from Middelburg. The two Generals have made a combined…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Chinese Crisis. Fighting at Peking. Rescue of the Legations. Taking of the Tartar City. War in Manchuria. London, Aug. 24
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 2
Detailed particulars are now coming to hand of tile capture of Peking and the relief of the Legations by the Allies on the 15th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News. in China
Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 27 August 1900 · page 2
It is reported that the Russians commenced the attack on Pekin at an curlier hour than was arranged by the allies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →