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

The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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The War in South Africa. the Reitz Engagement

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 2

Major Sladen, in the engagement with a commandant at Reits on the 5th instant, captured 100,000 rounds of small arm [?]tion and not 10.000 rounds as…

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The War in South Africa. London June 24

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 4

MAJOR BLADEN, in the engagement with a commandant at Reiz on 6th instant, captured 100,000 rounds of small arm ammunition and not 10,000…

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The War in South Africa. London June 25

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 2

FURTHER particulars have been received of the capture of a Boer convoy by Major Sladen's Mounted Infantry near Reitz on June 6, and of the [?]…

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Settlement of Soldiers on the Land

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 3

The committee appointed to inquire late she best [?] of settling reservists and dis[?]ged soldiers on the land in South Africa, a committee of which Mr…

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The Boer War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 2

General Rawlinson, on lying on visiting a difficult part of` Magaliesburg, found Boers ploughing and sowing, in the belief that the war had ended in their favour. The Boers were arrested…

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Boer War. London, June 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 4

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at the Mansion House yesterday, disclaimed pessimism. He said that Great Britain was greater than ever, and was capable of…

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Telegrams. the Boer War. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 4

Thirty-eight Boer families trekked from the Transvaal to Demaraland and were taken charge of by Germans. Sir Bindon Blood tried to surprise General Botha…

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Soldier and Anthill

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 6

Only the other day (wrote the Manila correspondent of Leslie's Weekly) the Kansas volunteers got under a fire so heavy that, after spreading out in line of skirmishers, the…

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Boer War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 July 1901 · page 2

A monster demonstration of sympathy with the Government in the war is being organised to be held at the Guild Hall. Huge crowds prevented pro-Boer meetings…

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Boer War. London, June 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 July 1901 · page 4

Commandant Malan, with 400 raiders, made a determined attack on Richmond, in Northern Cape Colony, on Tpesday. He captured several of the outlying sangars held by the…

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The War in South Africa. London June 29

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 2 July 1901 · page 3

COLONEL PILCHER'S operations in the Hoopstad district resulted in 46 Boers being killed or wounded. An enormous quantity of stores was also…

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The Boer War. London, July 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 July 1901 · page 4

Colonel Hickman has warned the residents of the Somerset East District, Cape Colony, that "sitting on a fence" is not permitted. He has also stated that those residents who passively allow the Boers…

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Latest News. the Boer War

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 2

Rimington Scouts surrounded and captured 11 Boers who were heliographing from a hill at Petrusburg (in the Oange…

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The Conduct of the War

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 2

WHATEVER of natural impatience there may be about the prolongation of the war in South Africa, there is no diminution in the determination to see…

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The War in South Africa. London, July 2

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 2

MR. CHAMBERLAIN, in the House of Commons last night, in answer to a question relative to the Constitution of Cape Colony, stated that it was not…

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The War in South Africa. London, July 1

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 4

COLONEL HICKMAN has warned the residents of the Somerset East District, Cape Colony, that "sitting on the fence " is not…

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The War in South Africa. Raiders in Cape Colony Determined Attack on Richmond

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 3

Commandant Malan, with 400 raiders, made a determined attack on richmond, in Northern Cape Colony, on Tuesday, He captured several of the outlying…

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The Boer War. Decision to Continue the War. London, July 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 2

Lord Kitchener has informed the Imperial Government that exchange of cypher cablegrams, for which he gave facilities, between General Louis Botha and Mr. Kruger, resulted in Mr. Schalk…

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Boer War. London, July 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 4

At the sitting of the Foreigners' Compensation Commission yesterday, Earl Roberts testified to the existence of a plot to destroy with dynamite a church at Johannesburg…

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Cable News. the Boer War. London, July 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 6

Commandant Fouche's force attacked Maclear, in the Transklei native territories, and was hold at bay by 30 farmers for two days. The arrival of Colonel Dalgety's troops caused…

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