Latest War News. LONDON, Oct. 26
The “'London Times” discredits the alarming news of any combination against Britain. It is estimated that 80,000 Boers…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1899
186 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 4 of 10
Boer War Notes. Written for the Cowra Guardian. (All Rights Reserved.)
The Battle of Glencoe has furnished the Boers with conclusive evidence that British red coats are not the poltroons and incapables which they have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Sydney, October 29
A Sunday Times cable reports that in a brisk engagement with rifle and artillery fire at Kimberley, followed by a bayonet charge, the Lancashire Regiment brilliantly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. LONDON
Various explanations have been given for the capitulation of the British during the recent great battle at Ladysmith, one being that the British…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The War. London
Fully 20,000 additional British soldiers will arrive at Ladysmith on or before Saturday, 11th November. The artillery duel was continued at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The War. London, October 29
There wash severe engagements on Monday on Eland's Laagte road. The British lost between 80 and 100 killed and wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kruger and Joubert. Discussing the War
A friend of mine, who was anxious to dream the winner of the Melbourne cup, recently took in a good supper of crayfish and lager bier, and lay down…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The War. Battle of Rietfontein. London
Detailed accounts are now to hand dealing with the battle which took place on Tuesday, 24th October, at Rietfontein, near Basters, about seven…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boer War Notes. Specially written for the 'Champion.') (All Rights Reserved.)
Kimberley is for the moment the centre of interest in the Mood red drama now being enacted in South Africa, and, if we mistake not, it will…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Transvaal War. Great Battle at Ladysmith. Defeat of the British. Two Regiments Surrender Fight Near Elandslaagte. [By Cablegram.] London, Monday afternoon
Early to-day the Boers shelled Lady smith. The fire was an extremely heavy one, the enemy utilising forty-pounders…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Off to the War."
To Continental nations the spectacle of the British colonies rallying to demonstrate at their own cost, their sympathy with the another country, must be impressive in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Week's War News
The Boers are shifting their positions southward in Natal. Many small skirmishes have taken place at the Natal outposts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News. LONDON, Nov. 2
There is an impression that Ladysmith is isolated. No news has arrived since Tuesday. The naval continent did good work…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The War in the Transvaal. London, October 30
IT is officially stated that the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, who, with a mountain battery, were reconnoitring on the hills south-west of Ladysmith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer War Notes, Written for the Cowra Guardian (All Rights Reserved.)
Kimberley is for the moment the centre of interest in the blood red [?] now being, enacted in South Africa, and if we mistake not, it will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War
THE pre-supposed glory of war has been distinct feature of the late calonial effort to display how loyal the children of the British Empire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. London, November 3
A terrible fight is raging at Lady-smith. The Beers attacked the British with great vigous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. London, Sunday. Fighting at Ladysmith
Ladysmith is reported to be safe as on the 3rd instant. The railway is intact, and an armoured train is conveying women and children southward…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. LONDON, Wednesday. a Brilliant British Victory
A bloody engagement has taken place near Colenzo, between troops commanded by General Sir George White and General Joubert,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boer War Notes. (Specially written for the 'Champion.') (All Rights Reserved.)
In view of the British loss at Lady-smith, brought about, unfortunately, by General White's eagerness and haste to secure some important advantage…
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