The Grand Military Demonstration. In Honor of Returned Soldiers
THE general committe of the above met on Monday night, when there were present:—The Mayor (Mr M'Fadden), Messrs C. H. Dight,…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
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The British War Office
The following passage from Hazell's Annual for 1806 will help to elucidate the recent House of Lords debate about the War Office:â "The Parliamentary chief of the department is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New War Terror
A recent cable message stated the American Senate had discussed in secret the matter of a new gun which was able to penetrate any armour. The following brief account of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Boer War. Reported Peace Proposals. Hunting De Wet. Discovery of Guns. London
Commandant Van Reemon, with 500 men, is laagered at Diepkloof, near Colesburg. The Boers have occupied Pearston. The Brusse's correspondent of the "New York Tribune" reports that a council of Boer commandants at Pietersburg, in the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. How De Wet Escaped. Serious British Miscalculation. Victorians Capture Boers. Australians Distinguish Themselves. London, March 7
De Wet is scattering his followers in groups. Six columns are pursuing him. De Wet's escape at Liliefontein wan due to a miscalculation in temporarily but peremptorily ordering Byng's column in…
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Some diversity of opinion existing in respect to the payment of Australian soldiers, in the African campaign, it may be mentioned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Situation in South Africa. Defence Situation Tn Australasia. Russia Forcing the Angloaustral Hand. Our Allies in the Pacific. Poetry at the Front. Guerilla War
Lord Kitchener has surely convinced the Boers by this time that he knows how to crush out guerilla warfare. It is no now art of war. In the Tyrol, Stras os Montes, Calabria, India, Culm, Acheen, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. End of De Wets Invasion. Swims the Orange River with 1500 Men. Capture of 30 Boers. Murder of a Native Witness. London, March 4
The "Times" correspondent reports that Lieutenant Colonel Bethune has occupied Ruckhoof and is able to deal with the commandoes in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War
De Wet intimates that no matter what the results of the peace pro posais, he intends to continue the war as long as he can command any…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War. London
De Wet is scattering his followers in groups. Six columns are pursuing him. De Wet's escape at Liliefontein was due to a miscalculation in temporarily but peremptorily ordering Byng's column in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Transvaal War. in the Orange River Colony. De Wet Hard Pressed. Botha's Negotiations. London, March 8
Commandant de Wet is being hard pressed in the direction of Fauresmith in the southwestern portion of the Orange River Colony. He has no guns. Two hundred Boers occupy a position at Rouxville…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Odds on a Soldier
As is well known, the soldier's risk of death in battle is not nearly tin great as of finding a grave an the result of disease. The most competent authorities state that on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Boer War. The Beginning of the End. Commando Going Home. Dashing Colonials. Deeds of Daring. British Blunder Allows De Wet to Escape. Township Attacked by Boers. LONDON
Lord Kitchener and Sir Alfred Milner are consulting on the position in South Africa at Pretoria, where a feeling prevails that the war will…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Transvaal War. Peace Negotiations. a Running Fight with De Wet. Cape Colony Raiders. the Victoria Cross. London, March 9
The Pretoria correspondent of the Times, in a telegram bearing Wednesday's date, reports that the negotiations between General Lord Kitchener and General Louis Botha at Middleburg are in abeyance,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boer War. Hunting De Wet. London
The "Times" correspondent with Colonel Bethune's headquarters, telegraphing on Wednesday, states that Commandant De Wet, with 700 men,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boer War. How De Wet Escaped. London, March 7
De Wet is scattering his followers in groups. Six columns are pursuing him. De Wet's escape at Liliefontein was due to a miscalculation in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. Movements of Commandoes. a Boer Commando Scattered. De Wet's Operations. London, March 11
Botheman's commando and Steenkamp's commando have crossed the Modder River north of Abraham's Kraal. Mr. Steyn, Commandant de Wet, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boer War. Conferring at Gunhill. Peace Probable. The Attack on Lichtenberg. The Boers Beaten off. LONDON
A DESPATCH from Pretoria to-day states that Lord Kitchener and General Botha met this morning at Gunhill. General Boths was alone, while…
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