The Boer War. Boer Losses Near Dewets. Dorp. De Wet's Movements. London, April 1
The British columns at Utrecht destroyed all the agricultural implements implements and everything that would be useful to the Boers…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
1,276 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 64
The Transvaal War
The Boers are hard pressed to the east of Vryheid, in the south eastern Transvaal. Major E. H. Allenby repulsed on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Serious Affray near Moree. an Aboriginal Badly Wounded
A white Australian camped along the Mehi River on the 28th ult. went to the aboriginal reservation and commenced pulling the women about, and assaulted the mother of Tommy Pitt, an occasional…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Good War Stories
Mr Treves, the surgeon, at the gathering in Scotland the other night, gave a good war story. The Highlanders had scaled a kopje with fixed bayonets, but most of the Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Later War News. London, April 3
Lord Kitchener has made proposals which will allow a limited number of miner to resume work on the Rand, He proposes that sufficient miners should return to the Rand as would enable 50 stampers for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News by the English Mail Topics of the Week. (From the Argus's Correspondent.) South African War
The House of Commons debate on the Address has lasted several days, and has covered many subject connected with the war in South Africa, but it is impossible to understand what is the issue…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Returning Soldiers
MR. M. YATES, of the Family Hotel, is in receipt of a telegram from the Commanding Officer, notifying that Messrs. V. Yates, A. T. Dowse, and F…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Soldier Cries for a Lady
When Marshal Saxe was besieging Maestricht, in 1748, he divided his time between siege operations and Mdlle. Chantilly, the prima of an opera company that he kept in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How They Treat the Common Soldier. (With acknowledgments to R. K.)
I goes unto a 'orspital to see a pal o' mine 'Oo's been shot through both 'is ankles a fightin' in the line; I finds that bloomin' 'orspital inside a workus ward,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Boer War. The Terms of Peace. Lord Kitchener's Initiative. More Boers Captured. The Boer Raid on the Cape. LONDON
THE question has been asked in the British House of Commons whether Lord Kitchener acted under instructions from the Government in his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War. the Murder of Mr. De Kock. Guerilla Tactics. Shooting Women and Children. Boer Movements. Activity of General French. Kitchener's Plan. Cape Raiders Routed. Boer Train Wreckers in Natal. London, April 4
Lord Kitchener is erecting along the railway lines high Martello towers, so as to enable a minimum number of troops to protect the railways and the bridges. The towers will contain loopholes,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War. Mr. Kruger Interviewed. the Granting Op Peace by the Boers. Transvaal Operations. London, April 6
It is officially announced that Brigadier-General Plumer, marching north from Nylstroom, which a few days ago surrendered to him, has occupied Piet Potgietersrust, 137 miles north of Pretoria, and but…
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Lord Kitchener is erecting at intervals along the British lines of communication a large number of high, loop-holed stone Martello towers, with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boer War. Important Movements. Boor Actions Doubtful. French Still Capturing Guns. [By Cable.] London
OWING to the collection of Boer forces in the direction of the Zoutspanberg, it is anticipated that there will shortly be fighting on a scale that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War. Fresh Surrenders. Boer Raiders Effect a Capture. the Red Cross Medal. the Total British Losses. Horses From America. London, April 8
The Boers left a 47 gun attached to an empty train at Heidelberg, south-east of Johannesburg. Parties of the enemy are daily surrendering to the British at Volksrust, on the Natal boundary, and at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War. in Cape Colony. an Australian Recommended for Honours. London, April 9
The Cape Government has warned the colonists that nets of rebellion will be punishable after April 12 by tho old common law penalties of death, imprisonment, and fine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Trouble in China. Tung-fuhsiang in Rebellion. an Assurance Of Peace. Disturbance by German Soldiers. Japanese Influence in China. London, April 9
Tung-Fubsiang is heading a rebellion in Mongolia and Shensi. Eleven thousand trained troops are within 160 miles of Singan-fu, the present seat of the Imperial Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Killed and Wounded. American Supplies. Plumer Scattering Boers. LONDON
Official returns have been published showing the disutilities susatnined by the British troops on active service in South Africa since the outbreak of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Royal Irish Captured. Column Refitting. Boers Surrendering. LONDON
Several Boer commandocs, averaging about 200 members, are barassing the country between Aberdeen, in Central Cape Colony, and the Orange River,…
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