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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1899

186 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 2 of 10

The War Cloud

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 22 September 1899 · page 9

ACCORDING to the latest cables to hand the Orange Free State has gone back on its previous decision and resolved to support the Transvaal…

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War Scares

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 5

On Sunday evening an enterprising evening newspaper issued a special war edition some time after eight o’clock at night. The paper itself innocently…

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The War Cloud

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 8

London, Monday.--The civil courts of the Transvaal have been suspended, and Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Transvaal Envoy Extraordinary and…

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The War Cloud

Forbes Times · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 2

AS day after day passee over our heads so the war cloud in South Africa looms more distinctly in the horizon, and there is no telling at what moment the spark will be applied that will…

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War

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 2

THE cable message received in Sydney yesterday, and wired to this office, stating that the British Government had declared war against…

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War Items

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 3

THE British authorities have chartered 74 transports for the conveyance of troops to South Africa. It is officially announced at Washington…

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The Trasvaal War

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 2

Mr. Conynghame Greene, British Resident, has bean re-called from Pretoria to London. In the meantime, the British interests in the Transvaal will be…

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War in the Transvaal. LONDON

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 15

The International Powers now recognise that war exists between Great Britain and the Transvaal. The British agent at Pretoria has…

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How Will the Expected War Affect Australia?

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 2

BOOKING at the prospective trouble from a commercial standpoint, a war between the Transvaal Boers and Great Britain, under certain…

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Boer War Notes. (Written Specially for the Champion.) (All Rights Reserved.)

Western Champion · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 15

It is no use now raking up the past. It is easy to be wise after the event; but we cannot refrain from recalling one, of a number of warnings, which…

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Latest Intelligence. [By Cablegram.] War Declared. an Ultimatum. Sent by the Boers. Arrogant and Defiant. England's Refusal. Sydney

Western Champion · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 11

Admiral Pearson has received a cable announcing that war with the Transvaal has been declared. LONDON, Wednesday…

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War Declared

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 3

The Boers have sent: an ultimatum to Britain, demanding arbitration, and the instant withdrawal of troops from the Transvaal frontier ; also, the immediate withdrawal from Africa of…

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The Transvaal. War Commenced. Sydney, Thursday 4 p.m

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 6

Admiral Pearson signalled to the warships in port that war in the Transvaal is. in existence from to-day. LONDON, October 12th…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. the Transvaal Trouble. War Commenced. Sydney

Forbes Times · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 2

REAR-ADMIRAL PEARSON has received an intimation from the Imperial authorities to the effort that war is inexistence in the Transvaal as from to-day…

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The Theatre of War. Laing’s Nek the Weak Spot

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 12

In the “St. Jame’s Budget” Mr. F. R. Cana has lately been contributing an interesting series of articles on “Boers and Uitlanders.” in one of…

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The Transvaal War

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 2

AFTER weeks and months of negotiation, and the use of diplomacy, partial surrender, retrogression, [and all the various arts which the men…

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War News. Latest From South Africa

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 2

[UNDER this heading we purpose giving the fullest particulars which our space will allow of the conflict now raging in South Africa. To…

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The War

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1899 · page 2

[UNDER this heading we purpose giving the fullest particulars which our space will allow of the conflict now raging in South Africa. To…

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A R[?] of the War

Western Champion · Friday 20 October 1899 · page 15

Many old soldiers now feel the effects of the hard service they endured during the war. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson of Rossville, York county, Penn.,…

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Transvaal War. [By Cablegram.] London

Western Champion · Friday 20 October 1899 · page 11

H.M.S. Niobe and Diadem, twinscrew cruisers, first-class, belonging to the Channel squadron, have been ordered to the Cape…

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