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

The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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West Indian Soldiers Mutiny. London, Jan. 31

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 5 February 1901 · page 4

QUARRELLING between bluejackets and West Indian soldiers at St. Helena led to tho West Indians being confined to their…

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The Boer War. a Hundred Casualties

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 February 1901 · page 4

The Portuguese, fearing a raid, are sending all the ammunition surrendered by the Boers at Koomatipoort on board lighters in Delagoa Bay…

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The Boer War. Raiders Repulsed. London, Feb. 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 February 1901 · page 2

The raiders in Western Cape Colony sent a force to the Doom River In order to prevent Major J. Colenbrander, who was in command of a portion of Bethune's Horse, from advancing. Major…

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The Transvaal War. More Troops Wanted. London, Feb. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 February 1901 · page 4

Brigadier-General Brabant and his staff are in the eastern provinces of Cape Colony organising a defence force. Lieutenant-General French's force at…

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The Latest. Boer War. Movements of British Forces. a Portuguese Appeal. London, Wednesday Afternoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 February 1901 · page 2

KIET DE WET is passionately appealing to his brother, Commandant Christian do Wet, to surrender. Major-General Smith-Dorrien has…

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A Returned Soldier

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 February 1901 · page 2

A handsome gold medal is now on view in Mr. J. Baxter's window, Auburn-street. The medal is intended for presentation to Mr. Frank Townley on his return from South Africa by his fellow…

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The Transvaal War. Lonnon, Feb. 4

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 8 February 1901 · page 4

A PARTY of Boers attacked the scouts preceding a convoy which was journeying from Koffeyfontein to the Modder…

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West Indian Soldiers Mutiny

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 February 1901 · page 3

Quarrelling between bluejackets and West Indian soldiers at St. Helena led to the West Indians being confined to their barracks. The West Indiana mutined,…

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The Transvaal War. British Forward Movement. London, Feb. 8

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

Reuter's correspondent at Capetown states that operations on a large scale against the Boers have commenced. The British troops have a large front in the Orange River…

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The Latest. the Boer War. Sixty Thousand Refugees. London, Friday Afternoon

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

SIXTY thousand Boer refugees are now under British protection. Small bodies of Boers continue to enter Cape Colony and are appearing in…

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The Boer War. Despatch of Reinforcements. Afrikander Proposals for Peace. London, Feb. 7

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

The War Office announces that it is sending promptly 30,000 mounted troops to South Africa beyond those recently landed. Ten thousand Yeomanry will shortly be…

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War Trade. Mew South Wales’ Share

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 11 February 1901 · page 2

LONDON, Friday Morning.—During the war in South Africa, the New South Wales agency has been instrumental in supplying the War Office with 2,522,0001b. New…

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The Boer War. London, Feb. 11

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

Lieutenant-Colonel T. D. Pilcher and Major C. P. Crewe. commanding the Border Horse, on January 31 engaged a large force of Boers under Commandant de Wet, on opposite sides…

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The Transvaal War. London, Feb. 7

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 12 February 1901 · page 2

THE War office announces that it is sending promptly 30,000 mounted troops to South Africa beyond those recently landed; 10,000 Yoomanry…

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Boer War. Plague in Capetown. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 February 1901 · page 4

Burghers of Orange River Colony are everywhere indignant at the barbarity of Commandant de Wet in shooting envoys from the peace committee…

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The Boer War. Still Promising Intervention. London

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

Mr. Kruger is still promising General Botha European intervention. Major Brereton, commanding at Steynsburg, has called in all male farmers and…

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The Real War Story. Important Despatches Published. London, February 9

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 February 1901 · page 2

Despatches just published make the story of the war very lucid. It is evident that throughout the Commander-in-chief was sadly hampered…

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The Transvaal War. Lord Roberts's Difficulties. Fighting in the Transvaal. London, Feb. 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 February 1901 · page 4

The War Office publishes two volumes of despatches from South Africa, covering the period during which Lord Roberts was commanding-in-chief. The despatches graphically reveal the…

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Against War. (To the Editor Yass Tribune)

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 14 February 1901 · page 6

SIR,—I notice the reaction is setting in and the labor party is beginning to see the danger of allowing boodle to ride rampant. The labor unionists in England…

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The Transvaal War. the Klipplaat Fight. London, Feb. 13

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

The fight with Commandant Kruitzinger's force at Klipplaat, 61 miles south of Graaff Reinet, took place on February 6. Twelve of the 7th Dragoon Guards, 12 Western Australians, and three police,…

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