War Accounts
OWING to adverse comments upon Mr. See's charge of 3 per cent, on advances made by New South Wales for the payment…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1902
497 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 25
Boer War. London, Feb. 15
The Standard states that before the drive reached Heilbron 1400 Boers crept back. Commandant Do Wet is trying to rejoin these Boers in the Reitz district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Spanish American War. London, Feb. 16
In the House of Commons on Friday Viscount Cranborne, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that in regard to the question of European intervention on the eve of the Spanish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in South Africa. London, Feb. 14
THE Boer casualties during the recent "drive" are estimated at 100, and the total lossesh inflicted on the enemy during the two days are put down at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boer War. Mounted Infantry Defeated. London, Feb. 17
Lord Kitchener reports that a battalion of the Malta Mounted Infantry, while reconnoitring at Zaikerboscbrand on the 12th instant, engaged a considerable force of Boers in difficult country…
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Reuter's correspondent reports that the columns of Colonel do Lisle and of Colonel Fanshawe engaged a large force under Commandant do Wet at Trommel on the 16th instant, and captured 10…
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The Times says that the remarks by Mr. Barton at yesterday's patriotic meeting in Melbourne regarding the settlement of South Africa are most significant, as is also the condemnation by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Progress of the War
THE methods adopted by Lord Kitchener in the prosecution of his arduous task in South Africa are slowly but very surely brining the war to its inevitable close…
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THE "Times" says that the remarks by Mr. Barton at yesterday's patriotic meeting in Melbourne regarding the settlement of South Africa are most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in South Africa. London, Feb. 17
LORD KITCHENER reports that a battalion of the Malta Mounted Infantry, while reconnoitring at Zuikerboschrand on 12th instant, engaged a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in South Africa. the Encircling Movement. Further Particulars. Commandants Captured
In the recent encircling movement of the Boers in the Orange River Colony by Lord Kitchener, his broad front was secured each night by the entrenching of…
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Mr. Balfour, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, said that fir Redvers Buller had never asked to re-write an account of the Spion Kop disaster, for he had never written any. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer War. London, Feb. 21
The report of the commission of ladies appointed to visit the concentration camps in South Africa is a striking vindication of the management of the camps and a high tribute…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Continental Campaign of Calumny. the Foul Slanders Our Soldiers. London, January 10
The German Press and the German people seem determined to run amuck at everything British. It is almost incredible that an apparently sober, sensible, and well-educated people should not only,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer War. London, Feb. 24
A meeting of Afrikanders was held at Graaf R[?]uet on Saturday. Resolutions were passed protesting against the slanders on the British army. Votes of confidence in Mr. Chamberlain (the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer War. London, Feb. 22
Lord Kitchener reports that Lieutenant-Colonel C. W. Park's Mounted Infantry, with 300 National (Burgher) Scouts, surprised a force of Boers at Nooitgedacht, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in South Africa. London, Feb. 21
THE report of the commission of ladies appointed to visit the concentration camps in South Africa is a striking vindication of the management of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in South Africa. London, Feb. 19
THERE is a strict censorship over news from South Africa. This is interpreted to mean that Lord Kitchener is organising a big move…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Slanders on British Soldiers. a German Lady’s Opinion
THE following interesting letter was published in the London TIMES of January 16 :—“Sir.—The FINANZ-C[?]RONIR published the diary of a German lady, who only lately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boer War. London, Feb. 25
The columns between Strydplaat and Botha's Pass, in the extreme north-east of the Orange River Colony, are pushing the Boers towards Harrismith, near the Western Natal border. Further to the…
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