Transvaal War How Spion Kop Was Won and Lost. an Awful Carnage. the British Losses Amount to 500. Messages From Ladysmith. Lieutenant-general Kelly-kensy's Command. a Orderly Killed. the Queen's Message to the Troops. Transports Recalled to Capetown. the Campaign in Cape Colony. London, Jan. 31
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 February 1900 · page 3
Further details which have been received of the battle of Spion Kop show that when aware that the British held the highest part of the mountain the Boers, from an invisible position on lower ground,…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 3
The men of the third continent are very hopeful that they will be outward bound far South Africa before long. If they are called on the officers in charge of them state that they would be ready to…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 3
The "Times," in commenting upon the latest developments at the sent of war, adopts a most serious tone. The paper states that there is a…
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The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 2
DISAPPOINTMENT is too mild a term to designate the feelings expressed in connection with the position in South Africa. The victory at Spoin Kop…
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The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 4
SOME of the best letters, because they are free from excessive coloring, from the front are from our own men over there. We give below extracts from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some Incidents of the Boer War of 1881
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 1
In view of the present crisis it may not be uninteresting (says the London "Globe" military correspondent) to recall some experiences of tho Boor War…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An Irish, Soldier's Furlough
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 5
In the autumn of 1825, some private affairs called me into the sister kingdom; and as I did not travel like Polyphemus, with my eye out, I gathered a few…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 5
The wife of an American solider—when he happens to be married —has a comparatively happy time of it. But it is different elsewhere and the condition is at its worst…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. The Spion Kop Battle. General Buller Hopeful. Expects to Relieve Lady-smith in a Week. Meeting of the Imperal Parliament. Important Speeches. LONDON
The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 3
Continental and military authorities declare that the Boer position around Ladysmith is impregnable, and that the British must seek a new field of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transvaal War the Battle of Spion Kop. the British Losses. the Army's Confidence in Buller. Colonials in the Front. an Attempt to Be Made to Flood Ladysmith. Canadians and Australians in an Engagement. Boers Accused of Trickery. Colonial Infantry Transformed Into Mounted Troops. Commandeering by the Boers. Mafeking Safe. London
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 3
Colonel Thorneycroft ordered the retirement of the British troops from Spion Kop. General Duller acquits Colonel Thorneycroft of the blame, and declares that he directed the defence of the…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 4
ANTICIPATIONS about the campaign in Natal which folk encouraged at the close of last week have been disagreeably falsified by later news. The position when we last wrote was…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 3
The contributions to the New South Wales Patriotic Fund now amount to .£16,639. The Bushmen's Contingent Fund now amounts to .£25,766…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 2
Some anxiety has been expressed in some quarters as to the treatment which might be meted out to Australian prisoners of war in Pretoria, but we are assured that a message on this head has been…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 4
The Imperial Parliament was opened to-day. The Queen's speech indicates that the war was forced upon Great Britain. It also indicates a large…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 12
"The die is east," said Murphy, as he flung the Argus from him, and turned to his friend. "Thim Boors have brought it on thimsilvs. Mebbe they cuddent help it, but it's done, annyhow. The bank…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 4
Colonel Thorneycroft ordered the retirement of the British troops from Spion Kop. General Buller acquits Colonel Thorneycroft of the blame, and declares that he directed the defence of the…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 2
The contraband portion of the cargo by the German steamer Hans Wagner, which was seized by the British authorities in Delagoa Bay, but subsequently released, has been landed at Port…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 3
The Rev. the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales, has addressed a letter to all the ministers, asking them to intercede with God on behalf or those engaged in the…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 4
DISARMAMENT of the Boers will be one of the consequences of the war. But something more will have to be dene to peaceably settle South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Cablegrams. London, Thursday. The Transvaal War
The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 4
It was Colonel Thorneycroft who ordered the retirement of the British from Spion Kop. General Butter acquits Colonel Thorneycroft at blame. and…
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