Our Sydney Letter. Sydney. April 10. Size of Soldiers
Owing to the [?] rejections of volunteers because of their small stature both in Eng and and Australia, this question has assumed a degree of importance…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1900
588 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 14 of 30
The Was in South Africa. Irish Soldiers Fighting for and Against the [?]
THE special correspondent of the London Daily News, writing from Enslen camp on January 21st, says ; “I rode down to Belmonta few days ago. The Monsters, who are quartered there,…
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Another of the Forbes Mounted Rifles (writes our Forbes correspondent) has been severely wounded at the front in the person of Corporal A…
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When Colonel Schiel landed in St Helena he was marched to the citadel, while the British sailors and soldiers sang "Rule Britannia" and "Soldiers…
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The official despatches relating to the Spion Kop disaster have been published. In these General Lord Roberts, while acknowledging…
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Mafeking was well on 11th instant. 150 British prisoners are ill at Pretoria. 300 Boers are approaching…
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Colonel Dalgety's forces continue to hold out at Wepener despite the fact that the Boers have made several desperate attempts to capture the…
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Thousands of [?] with eight guns, two [?], and two maxims have surrounded Major-General Daigetty's force at Wepmer. A gallant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News. the Spion Kop Disaster. Lord Roberts Censures. Wepener Surrounded. Bushmen's Arrival. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney
Generals Buller and Warren and Lord Roberts' despatches regarding the abandonment of Spion Kop have been gazetted…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Transvaal War. British Casualties to Date Italy Will Not Intervene. a Strong Boer Entrenchment. Rebels Sent to Queenstown. Sydney
The total British casualties to April 7th amount to 17,701, exclusive of those at Reddesburg. Of these 2,171 represent the killed…
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THE despatches of General Warren, Buller and Roberts in reference to the Spion Kop engagement-have been gazetted, Lord Roberts, while acknowledging Colonel…
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Lord Roberts’s advance has been delayed owing to the difficulty of getting supplies. Two thousand patients are in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Boer War. in the Free State. Seige of Wegener Raised. Basutos Watching Boers. a Move on Bethulie
LONDON, April 17—The Boers who Were beseiging Wepener, [?] the [?] border, have retired. The enemy has also retired from the vicinity of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hero’s Life of Adventure. Chat with an Old Soldier
AT Hoxton Park, within easy leach of Liverpool, N.S.W,. lives one of England’s heroes, Staffsergeant J. Chalkley, late of the Bengal Army Commissaria[?] Department and the 8th King’s…
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The following war news has been received:— LONDON, April 22. It is reported that the Boers in…
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The following war news has been received:— LONDON, April 26. WEPENER RELIEVED…
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There is great excitement at Capetown in consequence of a prospect of Lieutenant-General Bundle and Major-General Chermside being able to entrap…
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Lieutenant General Warren has been appointed Military Governor of the Orange Free State. The Portuguese have stationed 1000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Transvaal War. SYDNEY, Sunday night
The Surrey has arrived at Capetown. The kindly impulse of the German Emperor in journeying to Altona is…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The War. LONDON, Thursday. Wepener Relieved
As an incentive to the Wepener relief columns moving up from the south under the command of Major- General E. Y. Brabant, and…
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