War News
AFTER heavy fighting which took place at Hatherley, east of Pretoria, on the 11th instant, the Hoer forces retreated rapidly eastward. They worn chocked in their…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1900
309 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 12 of 16
War in China
The German Consul at Chefu telegraphs that a Japanese torpedo boat reports that the legations at Pekin have been captured. The torpedo boat also reports that the…
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900 British prisoners at Nooitgedacht, on the Delagon Bay line, east of Middleburg, are suffering great hardships, being fed on mealies and only covered with rage,…
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The cables of the week have given us a pitiable, almost contemptible, picture of President Kruger edging nearer towards the Portuguese territory…
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A competitive war has now broken out between the new company and the others. Several vendors of theirs—the chiefs of the Farmers' Company…
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To those who have followed events in the Far East, there is nothing sudden or surprising in the present wa[?]threatening situation. How Russia…
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GENERAL BULL'R has entered upon a general forward movement, and is now 20 miles north of Volkerust, and numbers of Boers are surrendering to him. It is hoped…
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After the battle of Eerste Fabrieken had been won by the British, the Australian Mounted Infantry forming part of General Hutton's Brigade, doggedly pursued the…
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LORD ROBERTS is engaged providing fresh horse for the troops under his immediate command east of Pretoria. Much incovenience has been caused to…
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In cabling on Saturday Rear-A[?] Bruce, in command of the China squa[?] stated that the only runner who had [?] from Tentsin for five days reported [?]…
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OWING to the pau[?], in British operations occasioned by Lord Rubert's column being compe[?]ed to await the arrival of horses. the B[?] forces have again at empted to…
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It is fortunate for England that this Chinese trouble has occurred' now, instead of six or eight months earlier. It shows that the Boer leaders were not…
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THE city of Pretoria swarms with Boor Spies, who report to the foe every British move. One of the tricks adopted by the hostile Boers to retard British movements…
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A British flying column of 800 men, commanded by Major H. M. Grenfell, of the First Life Guards, has had a sharp engagement with the enemy in the Orange River…
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By the nine o'clock train last night there came to Kiama Trooper W. H. Black, of the First Australian (volunteer) horse. Trooper Black was one of…
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Premier Lyne appears very much inclined to let voluntrers go from this colony for service in China. Beheading appears to be the order of the day at…
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Major-General R. A. P. Clemente has seized and burned the Boer camp near Lindley. In the action he lost two men killed and 13 wounded. Farmhouses in…
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Field-Marshal Lord Roberta is evidently determined to crush General Do Wet and his active followers in the Orange River Colony The enveloping movement is pin…
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THE Chinese troops at Pekin have murdered the German Envoy Extraordinary—Baron de Ketteter, and afterwards destroyed the legations, Servants at the…
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Sir Robert Hart, Director of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs and Posts, has stated in a despatch to the Foreign Office that all the Legations, except the…
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