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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
2,219 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 21 of 111
The news this morning is not yet decisive, but we may take the statements from Dr. Leyds nod Mr. Kruger with a grain of salt. It seems impossible that Kitcheper would let [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One Van Druten has been tried at Kimberley and sentenced to three years' hard labour for actively in triguing with the enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts has thanked the Queensland Government for the third contingent, and states that he can find immediate employment for any more mounted men who might be sent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Field-Marshall Lord Roberts, who went to Paaderberg on the 21st, after a careful reconnaisance of the enemy's position, was satisfied it could…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is not only war which is expensive; even a war crisis, when no fighting follows it, is a costly experience such as nations cannot afford to indulge in every day. Before war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →They are still fighting it out upon stubborn yet heroic lines about Ladysmith and Koodoes Rand, and nothing need be added until Cronje surrenders and Buller enters Ladysmith. Conje's capitulation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Buller on Wednesday last crossed the Tugela River on a pon toon, and drove the enemy's rearguard before him, a body of sailors with 12…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When Cronje was asked by Lord Kitchener to surrender he declared that he would fight till dead. Kitchener then resumed his attack, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The surrounded Boer force under General Cronje at the Modder is confined in the river bed. The dimensions of the confined area are—Length, 2 miles; breadth, 150ft,; depth, 50ft. Major-General…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The subscriptions to the Bushmen's Contingent Fund now amount to £29,186. The Queensland Cabinet yesterday considered a cablegram from Lord Roberts, and decided in view…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CRONJE has surrendered unconditionally. That is the satisfactory supplement to the news received over a week ago that Kimberly had been relieved. To those who are wont…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Major-General Kelly-Kenny's men are pursuing Cronje's forces along both banks of the Modder River. He has thus compelled the main body to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday a case containing the work of the Muswellbrook public School children was despatched to Sydney, in order to go away with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The cordon around General Cronje'a forces is daily being more closely drawn. On Friday the 1st battalion of the Gordon Highlanders rushed 200 yards in advance of the position…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Herald of to-day, in its account of the embarking of the Bushmen'a Contingent, says—"The little 4ft, lOin. Trumpeter, Rupert Peek, sat on a rail, and blew with his trumpet as loudly as he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We suffer; yet we can also rejoice On the 11th February we as a nation or as an empire appeared before God as intercessor on behalf of our cause and our soldiers. Many made it a time of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Field-Marshal Lord Roberts has cabled as follows:—"Four howitzers which I received from De Aar intensified the bombardment of General Cronje's position. At 3 o'clock on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bushmen's Contingent Fund now totals £29,954. The subscriptions to the Patriotic Fund now amount to £25,455…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Roberts cabled at three o'clock on Tuesday morning that the British had dashingly seized a point within eighty yards of the Boer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commandant Cronje, whose petition at Koodoosrand is considered hopless, is using rockets to attract assistance. In the meantime all reinforcements…
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