Boer Version of the War
Botha and De Wet are engaged writing a history of the war. Kruger is publishing an apologia in the shape of documents relating to the origin…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1902
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The War's End. Australasian Troops Returning
The 4th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Battalions of the Commonwealth Horse are returning to Australia by the Manchester Merchant, which left Durban on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Returning Soldiers. [By Telegraph] Sydney
A cable received from Durban, South Africa, announces the departure of the "Drayton Grange," with 1982 returning soldiers for all the States…
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Commandant Hertsog, one of the Boer leaders who recently surrendered, addressed a number of prisoners on parole, and told them they were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How a Soldier Makes His Will
Doubtless many of our readers (says the Sunday Companion) have wondered how Tommy Atkins makes his will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colenso Despatches. Debated in the House of Commons. the Case of Sir Redvers Buller, a Special Army Committee Asked For. Refused by the Government. Sarcastic Remarks by Lord Hugh Cecil. Ineptitude of the War Office. London. July 18
In the House of Commons last night Sir Edward Grey (Liberal) initiated a debate on the publication of the despatches relating to events immediately following the battle of Colenso, and especially the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One Constable Murdered. and One Wounded. by Two Desperate Men
A terrible affair in Shepherd street, Darlington, on Saturday evening last, roused the whole of the metropolitan police, while those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sooth Africa. Addresses by Boer Leaders. Sentences Under Martial Law. British Officers in the War Eulogised. London
Generals Louis Botha and De La Bay, who have arrived at Capetown, on their way to Europe, have been accorded a welcome in the ball of the Dutch Reformed Church. General Botha thanked the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Momentoes of the War
The Corporation of Loudon has accepted the gifts of ox-President Krager's ex-waggon, and of a Long Tom used by the Boors at the siege of Ladysmith…
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Whon Lieut Egerton, of the Powerful, one of the best of the best of the younger officers, was directing one of his guns against the enemy, one leg and one foot were carried off, as he lay on the sand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Africa. General Conduct of This War. Botha's Advice to the Afrikanders. London
In the House of Commons last night, Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, announced that it was intended to appoint a Royal Commission, composed of seven members to investigate into the conduct of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Curious Incident Aboard a Man-of-war
The first thing that strikes a lands man on a man-of-war is the rigid dicipline observed everywhere. On some of the ships belonging to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Proclamation of Peace the Late War. a Stirring Recital. Brave Fighters
I HAPPENED to stay some days at the same hotel as General Cheere ("Cherro") Emmet, brother-in-law of Louis Botha (says a writer.) He was…
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The steamer Salamis, with twenty two troops, and the steamer Fedeial, with 80 troops, both arrived to day from South Africa…
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The troopahip Drayton Grange will be placed in quarantine on her arrival in Port jackson tomorrow night. The men effected with measles will be removed to North Head, but those in good health…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shooting Affray at Burwood. Three Person's Wounded
A dispute in regard to a football match which had just concluded occurred among a number of young men at Burwood on Saturday evening. Constable Gallagher, who was in plain clothes, was requested…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boers and the War
Mr. Reitz, junior, interviewed in Naples, said the Boers had been beaten not by British soldiers but by the abject misery. There would be war again in three or four years; the majority of young Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Commission on the War
Mr. Seddon has suggested to Mr. Chamberlain that the colonies should be represented on the Royal Commission which is to be appointed to inquire into the conduct of the war in South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Africa. Honours to War leaders. LONDON
IN the presence of the Colonial premiers, the Indian Princes, the Agents-General, and Ministers and ex-Ministers of the Crown, the…
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