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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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Soldiers' Memorial

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 2

Gundagai, Thursday.--The subscribers to the soldiers' memorial which will be erected to the memory of troopers of this district who fall in the South African…

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Tangmangaroo Soldiers. Welcoming Them Home

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 2

Thursday last was the 'red-letter' day in the modern history of Tangmangaroo, and the occasion too on which Young Australia rose to the occasion…

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The China War. Life Crushed Out of Her. Revolting Death of a Lady Missionary. Children Living on Grass. Dreadful Sufferings of Refugees

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 2

A party of missionaries from the province of Shansi (in which some fearful massacres and barbarities have been committed) reached Shanghai on August…

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Telegrams. the Boer War London

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 3

The British have occupied Komati Poort, the Bo[?] abandoning their positions. Five hundred more arrived at Delagoa Bay, mostly foreigners and members of the…

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War in South Africa. Komati Poort Occupied. Flight of the Boers. London, Sept. 24

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 4

THE British have occupied Komati Poort, the railway town on the Portuguese East Africa border. The bridge over the Komati, which…

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Boer War. Capture of Stock

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 September 1900 · page 4

Major-General Barton has captured 1600 cattle, 1000 sheep, and 17 goods waggons near Krugersdorp. The Boers before the evacuation of Komati…

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The Transvaal War. Announcement by Lord Roberts. London, September, 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 September 1900 · page 4

Lord Roberts announces that burghers still in arms voluntarily surrendering will be confined at Bloemfontein, and will not be transported to St. Helena or Ceylon…

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The Boer War. Damaging Stock. the Portuguese Urge Submission. London, Wednesday Afternoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 September 1900 · page 2

Ex-President Kruger, yielding to the request of the Portuguese, persuaded Commandant Pienaar not to destroy the Komati railway…

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The Transvaal War. Mr. Kruger and the State Papers. London, Sept. 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 September 1900 · page 2

General Viljoen, who with General Botha, Mr. Reitz, and Mr. Steyn was reported to have gone north from Komati Poort with a commando for the purpose of harassing the British lines of…

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Smoke Concert in Honor of Returned Soldiers

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 27 September 1900 · page 2

ENTHUSIASM, unbounded and unmixed, was the dominant note of the assemblage in the Oddfellows’ Hall on Monday night last, when a number of Yass…

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The War in China

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 2

London, September 25, 1.15. p m.-- Prince Tuan and Kangyi are absolutely controlling affairs in China. They are substituting their own…

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The Transvaal War. London, Sept. 25

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 2

THE Boers before evacuating Komati Poort destroyed a "Long Tom," a 98 pounder gun, and a Creusot. Lieut General Pole Carew occupied Komati…

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The Transvaal War. London, Sept. 24

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 4

THE British have occupied Komati Poort, the railway town on the Portuguese East Africa border…

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The Boer War. Attempt to Destroy the Railway

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 2

London September 25, 1.15 p.m. An attempt to destroy the railway at Roodeval Spruit has been defeated, and a waggon load of dynamite captured…

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War in South Africa. a Valuable Capture. Destruction of Stores. Boers Urged to Yield

Goulburn Herald · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 4

THE locomotives which Lieutenant-General French found at Barberton on his occupation of the town are valued at £500,000…

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Richard Brice, Adventurer. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter Iii. Contraband of War. Part Iii.—a Double Without Quits. (Continued.)

Goulburn Herald · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 6

I EXPLAINED to him that the miracle of the camel going through the eye of a needle was ten times more likely to be brought about than that a Spaniard…

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The Queen and the War

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 5

There have been a number of misleading paragraphs in the newspapers with regard to the attitude of the Queen towards the impending war. It is quite true that her…

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The Transvaal War. London, Sept. 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 2

Brigadier-General H. H. Settle, with 7000 men, has relieved the British garrison at Schweizer Reneke, in the Transvaal Colony, 40 miles E S.E of Vryburg…

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The Transvaal War. British Guns Recovered. London, Sept. 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 4

Among the guns found at Crocodile Poort were two 12-pounders belonging to Q Battery of Royal Horse Artillery lost at Koorn Spruit, where a force under…

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The Boer War. an Armistice Granted. Enemy Likely to Surrender

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 4

A five days' armistice has been granted to Commandant Erasmus, whose commando is in position near Elands River in the western Transvaal…

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