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The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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The War in South Africa. London, Nov. 5

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 2

BRUCE HAMILTON'S column from Stande[?] reached Major Wool[?] Sampson at Braken-l[?]gte with little opposition on Friday. The m[?]n…

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The War in South Africa. London, Nov. 4

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 4

FURTHER particulars are to hand of the fight at Brakenl[?], Eastern Transvaal, in which a British column was attacked under cover of a mist by…

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The War in South Africa. a Disastrous Engagement. Colonel Benson Killed

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 2

LONDON, Nov. 2. The War O[?] r[?]d from Lord Kitch[?]r a brief [?]unt of a di[?]trous engagement in the south eastern…

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The Boer War. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 November 1901 · page 4

Lord Kichener reports that the Boers got nothing but two guns at Brakenlaagte. The Bcers had 44 killed and 100 wounded, including General Christian Botha…

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The Boer War. Suspected Mercenaries. London, Nov. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 November 1901 · page 6

Under martial law people arriving at Capetown are numbered according to their nationality. The numbering has shown that thousands of men from Europe, recent arrivals, and apparently mercenaries,…

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The Boer War. No More Surrenders. London, Nov. 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 November 1901 · page 2

Henceforth the voluntary surrender of Boers will not be accepted, but all the enemy who are taken will be considered prisoners of war, and will be deported. Four hundred Greandier and C I istream Guards,…

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The Boer War. London, Nov. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 November 1901 · page 2

With the exception of the commandos of Myburgh, Fonche, and Wessets, the whole of Cape Colony south and east of the Capetown-Transvaal railway line is almost clear of Boers…

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The War in South Africa. London, Nov. 7

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 12 November 1901 · page 2

THE Home Counties Liberal Federation decided at a meeting at which Earl Carrington presided to make a demand that the Boers should…

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Boer War. London, Nov. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 November 1901 · page 2

The Brussels correspondent of the Times reports that the object of the visit of Dr. Leyds and Mr. Fischer to Berlin is to make a supreme effort to obtain the mediation of…

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Boer War. Mr. Kruger's Terms. London, Nov. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 November 1901 · page 4

One battalion of the Cheshire Militia and two battalions of the Worcestershire Militia will go to South Africa. Nov. 12…

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St. Helena Blesses the War

The Burrowa News · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 1

MR. E. F. KNIGHT, on board the Juno, which escorted the Ophir on her long tour, was for some reason or another unable to land at Capetown, and with…

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The War in South Africa. London, Nov. 12

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 2

THE "Daily Mail" says that Mr. Kruger is willing to code the Rand to to Great Britain and to conclude peace on the following conditions:--1. An…

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The War in South Africa. London, Nov. 11

The Burrowa News · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 2
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The campaign is to be re[?] at an early date and on a more aggressive scale. Several regiments in India will relieve…

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Boer War. London, Nov. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 November 1901 · page 2

A commando of 60 Boers has raided south of Darling a small town 50 miles north of Capetown. The objects of the raiders were to obtain fresh horses end to punish the luke-warm Dutch supporters of…

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Boer War. Cold-blooded Murders by Boers. London, Nov. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 November 1901 · page 4

Mr. St. John Brodrick, the Secretary of State for War, addressed a meeting at the City Carlton Club yesterday on the present situation in South Africa. Mr. Brodrick said that the Boers in order to conceal…

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Yass Soldiers

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 18 November 1901 · page 2

The authorities received telegraphic information from South Africa on Thursday to the effect that Private Abraham Gorham Smith was on November 11th…

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A Soldier’s Memory. a Tablet Suggested

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 18 November 1901 · page 2

In the course of his remarks whilst pro posing success to F. Company at Saturday night’s valedictory social, Mr. B, J. Grogan said they had probably noticed in…

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Boer War. London, Nov. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 November 1901 · page 4

Lord Kitchener, in his despatches dated July and August, states that he is confident that the British are gradually crippling the enemy. Organised intimidation prevents the…

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The Boer War. London, Nov. 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 November 1901 · page 2

The Vienna correspondent of the "Times" states than an unprejudiced foreigner who has just returned from South Africa attributes the duration of the war to the insufficient number of British…

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