The War in China. Shanghai, March 22
A private telegram received from Hsianfu states that the grand Council has decided that the Court will leave Hsianfu in three weeks and proceed…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
1,276 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 64
The Boer War. the Peace Negotiations. the British Terms. Magnanimous Offers
LONDON, March 22.—The Blue Book just issued, detailing the negotiation between Lord Kitchener and General Louis Botha, shows that Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. Boers Severely Handled. Gallant Victorians. Fighting in the Transvaal. London, March 25
Major J.H. Scobell's column on the 20th instant, severely handled Commandant Seheeper's commando at Bl[?]auwkrautz. Six Boers were killed , and the British captured many horses. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Chinese Trouble. the Tientsin Incident. Jeering French Soldiers. London
The Port Arthur Regiment has been ordered to Tientsin. Although the trouble has been suspended, British officers are not allowed to sleep out of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Boer War. Peace Negotiations. The British Being Fooled. Botha and De Wet Conferring ? De Wet Gets Guns. Murderer Executed. Immense Captures of Stock. LONDON
AN official statement, giving particulars of the recent correspondence and negotiations between General Lord Kitchener and Commandant Botha,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poetry. War
Private Smith of the Royals; the veldt and a slateblack sky; Hillocks of mud, brick-red With blood, and a prayer—half curse—to die;…
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Sir Alfred Milner and Mr. Chamberlam modified the proposals of Lord Kitchener rent to Commandant Botha on March 7. By these modified…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War. Fighting in the Transvaal. Boers' Severe Defeat. Much Artillery Captured. London, March 26
Major-General Babington and Major-General Hamilton attacked Commandant Delarey and 1500 Boers south-west of Ventersdorp. The Boers were defeated, and in the retrait Major-General Babington…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Trouble in China. the Manchurian Agreement. Protesting Powers Embarrassed. Disturbances at Tientsin. British Soldiers Bayonetted. London, March 26
Reuter's correspondent at Tientsin reports that in an affray in that city two of the Welsh Fusiliers and one Victorian were sabred and bayonetted. The Germans were the principal culprits. The French…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War. the Cape Dutch Dismayed. Severe Losses of the Enemy. Cape Raiders. London, March 27
The defeat of Commandant Delarey by Major-Generals Bubington aud Hamilton South-west of Ventersdorp, in the Transvaal Colony, has dismayed the Capo Dutch. Prominent members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boer War. Alienating Sympathy. Lo Lisle's Splendid Work. No More Negotiations. Splendid Stock Captures. Boors Entangled. [By Cable.] LONDON
The refusal by General Bothe, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, of the terms offered by Lord Kitchener on bohalf of the British Government, is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Serious Affray. an Aboriginal Badly Wounded. Moree
A white Asutra[?] camped along the Mehi River yesterday evening went to the aboriginal reservation., and commenced pulling the women about, and assaulted the mother of Tommy Pitt, an occasional…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Good War Stories
Mr Treves, the surgeon, at the gathering in Scotland the other night, gave a good war story. The Highlanders had scald a kopje with fixed bayonets, but most of the Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boer War. LONDON
Sir Edward Clarke (Conservative, Solicitor-General 1886-92), hitherto a strong por-Boer, states that the rejection by General Botha and the other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in the Philippines
A cable message from New York says that some Maccabbe natives pretended to betray an American Colonel to the Filipines, and led Aquinaldo and his entire staff to a place near Baler. All were captured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boer War. Bofrs Severely Handle Gallant Victorians Fighting in the Transva[?] London, March 25
Major J. H. Scobell's column the 20th instant, severely hand Commandant Scheeper's command[?] Blanuwkrantz. Six Boere were [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. the Rout of Delarey. Australians Distinguish Themselves. New Zealand Casualty. London
Lord Kitchener reports that General Babington's casualties were two killed and seven wounded. Twenty-two dead Beers and thirty wounded have already been discovered on the field. Owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What Soldiers Carry
The Continental soldier carries a heavier 'kit on his back than the British soldier, because he relies less upon his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War
A Blue Book has been published by the British Government detailing the negotiations for peace between General Lord Kitchener and General Louis Botha, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Phillipine War. London
GENERAL. Aguinaldo has been captured by the Americans through the trencbery. of the natives, who led him into an ambush with his troops where the…
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