Latest News. the War
ON January 3sand[?] a consider, able force under Commandants C. Botha and Opperman was driven from a position north of…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1902
497 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 25
The War in South Africa. London, Jan. 6
PARTICULARS of the raptures, made in the Estern Transvaal by Bruce Hamilton show that the British columns crossed the flooded Vaal River by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in South Africa. London, Jan. 5
GENERAL BOTHA has sent a message to all the Boer commandants exhorting, them to continue fighting. He declares that the British Parliament, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in South Africa. De Wet's Operations. London, Jan. 1
The [?] war correspondent has telegraphed a graphic account of Commandant de Wet's fighting in the northwestern portion of the Orange River…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Imprisoned Victorian Soldiers. Their Story. the Sentence of Death. Commutation and Release
Troopers Steel, Richards, and Parry, the three members of the Fifth Victorian Contingent who were sentenced to death on a charge of mutiny at Middelburg, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boer War. London, Jan. 10
Lord Milner, the Governor of the Transvaal and of the Orange River Colony, in the course of a speech at banquet at Johannesburg, said that the situation was steadily improving, and that a hopeful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer War. London, Jan. 8
Colonel Colenbrander at Waterval wounded 20 of the enemy. Jan. 9. Colville's Scouts captured 13 Boers on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boer War
A Boer doctor states that in Christian Botha's fight at Vallentine 42 Boers were killed and seventy wounded. The sentences on Sergeants Martin and Hickel,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer War. London, Jan. 13
Armoured trains from Kroonstad and Wolvchoek prevented Commandant do Wet and 1200 men from crossing the railway line. The Boers retired eastwards. Colonel De Lisle is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Hunting De Wet
Colonel De Lisle on Wednesday engaged Commandant De Wet’s reconcentrated force 20 miles south of Heilbron, Orange Free State shelling heavily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Movements of De Wet
Lieutenant-Colonel Do Lisle on Wednesday engaged Commandant de Wets force which 20 miles south of Heilbron had been again concentrated. The British shelled the Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in South Africa. London, Jan. 9
THE extension of the blockhouse system is giving Major-General Bruce Hamilton a firmer grip on the Southeastern Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in South Africa. London, Jan. 10
LORD MILNER says that the situation is steadily improving, and that a hopeful feeling abounded, as the bursting of the recent storm cloud had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gunning’s Tribute to Her Soldiers
ON Friday last at Gunning a very large number of persons attends in the park to witness the ceremony of unveiling a very neat marble monument, which has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Returned Soldiers' Pay
In connection with the actions against the Government that are being taken by returned soldiers to recover the amount of pay to which they consider they are untitled, Mr. Robison, solicitor,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boer War. London, Jan. 15
Major-General Bruce Hamilton wires that, while he was on the march in the South-eastern Transvaal, Major F. D. Wing reported that there was a large concentration of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. London, Jan. 14
Major F. D. Wing has intercepted a letter from Commandant Piet Viljoen announcing that General J. Opperman, the chief lender of the south-eastern commandos of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Federal Parliament Defending Our Soldiers. Patriotic Speeches
The Federal Parliament re-assembled after the recess on Tuesday. Immediately upon the Speaker taking the chair, Mr. Barton rose and, after some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Rapidly Closing
Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India. speaking at Ealing, said that the news which the Government received from South Africa was satisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in South Africa. London, [?] 13
A[?]MOUEED trains from K[?] and Wo[?] presented Dr. Wet and 1200 men from crossing the railway line. The Boers retired eastwards…
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