The Transvaal War. London, July 10
The Boers under Commandant Scheepers, who recently entered Murraysburg. Cape Colony, in the absence of the British garrison, and burned the public buildings and houses,…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
929 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 27 of 47
Letter from the War. Trooper Albert Hoffman
TROOPER Albert Hoffman, who was the third of the sons of Mr. Martin Hoffman to go to the war, and who is a member of the last contingent of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, writes to his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Crime of Sleep. Heavy Lidded Soldiers Sent to Dartmoor
In one of his Majesty’s prisons in this country (says the London DAILY MAIL of May 31)are forty men who have committed no offence against the civil laws of the land,…
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By attacking the constabulary posted at Houtkop, north-west of Verceniging (a railway station on the northern bank of the Vaal River), the Boers captured an old 7-pounder…
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THE "Express" correspondent at Delagon Bay, reports that a fight took place between Machadodory and Lydenburg. The Boers were defeated,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Mr. Steyn's Flight. London, July 15
Lord Kitchener reports that Major-General E. L. Elliot's column has reached Heilbron, 37 miles north-east by north of Kroonstad. Major-General Broadwood's brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Mr. Steyn's Flight. London, July 15
Phillips says that ho ought to have no-balled Mold eighty and not eighteen times…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. London, Monday. Capture of a Laager
By a sudden feint Scobell. with three other columns converged in Camdeboo and captured Commandant Scheeprs' longer and 31 Boers, mostly rebels. Commandant Scheepers and…
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Mr Lee will bring on the question of returned soldiers deducted pay before the Assembly, possibly by a vote of…
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A second public meeting in connection with the movement to erect a memorial to the late Trooper Barker and others will be held in the Town Hall to-morrow (Wednesday) evening…
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London, Monday Afternoon.— Mr. Kruger openly palliates the Boer shooting of wounded British soldiers, alleging that the British have been guilty of barbarous…
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Mrs. Schalk Burger has been taken to Pretoria. The Government is sending a committee of Indies to inspect and report upon the refuges camps…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boer War. London, July 16
Mr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, stated in the House of Commons that Lord Kitchener had reported it to be useless to communicate with Boer leaders in regard to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Boer War. the Conduct of the Campaign. London, July 17
Mr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, stated in the House of Commons that the Daily Mail's description of Lord Kitchener's intentions in connection-with the military arrangements…
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In the House of Commons, the bill authorising the raising of a loan of £60,000,000 for the purpose of the war, as outlined by the Chancellor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in South Africa. London, July 15
LORD KITCHENER reports that General Elliot's column has reached Heilbron, 37 miles north-east by north of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in South Africa. London, July 16
MR. BRODRICK stated in the House of Commons that Lord Kitchener had reported it to be useless to communicate with Boer leaders in regard to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in South Africa. Raiders in Cape Colony
Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. Scobell (Brabant's Horse), Lieutenant-Colonel C.P. Crewe, Border Horse, Lieutenant-Colonel G.P. Wyndham and Lieutenant-Colonel…
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Lord Kitchener at Elandsfontein reports that a son of Philip Botha, Lieut. Thomas Humun, and Field-Cornet Oliver were killed in the recent fighting in Orange Colony…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letter From the War
TROOPER SID DUKE writes to his mother, Mrs Schroeder, of Garangula, from Durban as follows:-- After describing his experience of a…
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