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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
1,276 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 30 of 64
A petition from the Midlands of Cape Colony has been presented to Sir W. Hely-Hutchinson, the Governor, nw on tour making certain suggestions as to the manner in which the present disaffection…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE news from Lord Kitchener of De la Key's attack upon Dixon's column at Vlakfontein has caused a sudden burst of interest in the war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Adrian de la Rey's commando attacked Colonel Dixon's column at Vlakfontein, and was repulsed after heavy fighting. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Winston Spencer Churchill, who was war correspondent during the late campaign in Africa, says that once, in the interests of the Morning Post, he promised to follow the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The consensus of opinion' with regard to the Boers' attack on the British at Vlakfentein is that the Boars in the district were in desperate straits, and that the cordon tightening on May 29, they were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE official reticence with regard to events in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony is attributed to Lord Kitchener recently warning the War…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, has reported that he has received trustworthy information that General…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen, with a large convoy, has relieved Zeerust, in the Western Transvaal. [It was announced a few days ago that the road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OUTLYING-columns report that the Bosrs are fighting with desperate fierceness. Boer Prisoners report that there is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Kitchenor reports in reference to the battle fought on May 29 at Vlakfontein, which is 30 miles west by north of Krugersdorp, that a force of 1450 British with seven guns, were returning to camp at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, June 4, 1.50 p.m.— Commandant Viljoen is between Car- olina and Ermelo, in the Eastern Transvaal, and is avoiding the British…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colonel White's column defeated Kruitzinger near Jamestown, capturing a quantity, of rifles, horses, and ammunition, also most of the looted Jamestown stores. Seven Boers were killed and wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Kitchener reports in reference [?]o the battle fought on May 29 at Vlakfontein, which is 30 miles west by [?]orth of Krugersdrop, that a force of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The serious risks run by the war correspondent in pursuit of his calling are graphically described by a representative of the Daily News who was in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"This is how the War Office does business," says the Westminster Budget, "and the particulars are true. Among the inmates of Portsmouth Workhouse is an army veteran who received a small pension…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Desperate fighting has taken place near Bushman's Hoek, where 250 Boers had strongly entrenched themselves…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An interesting ceremony took place in Government House Grounds on Saturday, when his Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York presented medals to the New South Wales troops who had served in South…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Following rather tardily in the footsteps f other great European Powers, her Majesty's Government has decided to avail itself of the services of the "courier of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We shall soon be talking again of the cost of the War (remarks an English journal.) War is not a game that can be played for nothing. Even in…
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