Boer War. Many Captures. London, April 29
Major-General Sir Bindon Blood's movement in the Middleburg district resulted in large captures of stock and transport appliances. There were numerous surrenders…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
929 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 17 of 47
A Returned Soldier’s Story. Homeless, Sick, and Starving
At a meeting of the unemployed at the Queen’s Rail, Pitt-street, on Tuesday morning, Mr. J. Ellis, in moving one of the resolutions, said that he was a…
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FEW will have so soon let slip at least the memory of the clinking glasses, the surging crowds, the wild excitement and cheers, and the yet wilder…
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Commandant Kruetzinger has crossed the Orange River, Slight encounters are daily taking place between small…
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Commandant Ben Viljoen, with 500 men, a pom-pom and two Maxims, has gone south from Rosenkal, along the Steelpoort Valley. He has abandoned a…
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TWENTY-FIVE men of the Prince of Wales' Light Horse kept 400 Boers at bay for eight hours in a position 15 miles from…
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COLONEL GRENFELL has taken further prisoners. A store of 33,500 cartridges has been discovered, together with official documents and a large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in South Africa. the Boers Repulse in Zululand. British Bravery. London, May 1
Details have now been published of the manner in which the magistrate at Mahlabatina, Zululand, and 26 British repulsed an attack by Commandant…
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QUARTER-MASTER SERGT.-MAJOR HAROLD O'BRIEN, of the local troop of the Australian Horse, and Farrier J. Bennetts of G Company, who went to South Africa with the second…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Humanity of the Soldier
MR. JAMES BARNES, a well-known American war correspondent, contributors an account of a "farm burning" incident to the Outlook (American), which comes as a…
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The soldiers from the Tongarir landed on Wednesday morning. Those for New Zealand left that afternoon. A twelve-pounder and a captured…
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The Boers are suffering from extreme cold and a deficient commissariat. There are 6000 refugees in camp at Potchefstroom. A British column is starting to suppress…
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A number of Boer leaders and a big commando were strongly entrenched at Hart beestefontein. Major-General Babington after shelling the laager all day compelled the Boer to evacuate it, and on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Loan. London, May 2
American capitalist have obtained one sixth of the amount (£30,000,000) of the war loan offered for public subscription…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Boer War. the Fighting in Zululand. London, May 3
Further details of the British success at Mahlabatim, Zululand, where the Magistrate and 26 British repulsed 400 Boers under Commandant Beyers, show that Nkongonl Nek, where, as well as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Last " Long Tom " Destroyed. London. May 2
Lieutenant-Colonel Grenfell attacked a force, of Boers at Bergplants, near Haenortsberg, east of Pietersburg, and was answered by the last "Long Tom" which the Boers possessed…
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Trooper Seiffert, one of the returned soldiers by the Tongariro, will arrive in Goulburn on Monday afternoon. Troopers Prior and Jeffrey are also amongst the men who returned by the same boat…
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TROOPERS F. Weatherby and Wirth, who sailed with the second contingent and have been absent some fifteen months on active service are expected in Yass on…
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General Douglas and Colonel Bruson after hard fighting in the hills to the eastward of Dullstroom dispersed the Po rs and captured their laager, taking several prisoners. There were a few…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Loan. London, May 2
AMERICAN capitalists have obtained one-sixth of the amount ([?]0,000,000) of the war loan offered for public subscription…
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