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

The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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The War. LONDON

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 29 June 1900 · page 1

A combined movement has been placed on foot to Crush General De Wet who is now raiding the northern part of Orange River Colony…

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The War. London, June 28

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1900 · page 2

It has been decide that no troops are to be withdrawn from South Africa until the close of the war. A member of the Africander Bond, named…

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The Boer War

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 5

The war with the pig-headed and stubborn Boer still continues and seems no nearer termination than it was when our last letter appeared…

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The Shifting War Cloud

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 5

The shifting of the war cloud from South Africa to China is a matter which is exercising the minds of most thinking people at the present moment…

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Nurses in Time of War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 1

Speaking of volunteer nurses in time of war, a soldier says: "Some of the nurses are wise, and some foolish; some few careless; most…

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The Boer War. LONDON, June 26

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 2

Later reports of the burning of the railway culverts, state that the, Boers attacked the British, post at Heningspruit and burnt three culverts before…

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Telegraphic Intelligence [Per Reuter.] Latest War News. London, Thursday. Seymour Relieved

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 7

Vice-Admiral Seymour has been relieved, and has reached Tientsin, bringing 200 wounded with him. SEYMOUR PREVENTED FROM…

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Our Sydney Letter. Sydney, June 27.The End of the War

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 5

Although we have with the capture of Johannesburg and the surrender of Pretoria, passed the important stages the war the resistence of the Boer,…

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The War

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1900 · page 2

The following war news has been received :— LONDON, July 1. General Grenfell's flying column of…

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Latest Telegrams. SYDNEY, Tuesday. N.S. Wales War Vessels

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1900 · page 2

Mr. Lyne has received a cable from Mr. Chamberlain thanking New South Wales for so promptly agreeing to despatch warships to China, but…

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Transvaal War

Western Champion · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 11

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Oolvielle, commanding the 9th Division, has been ordered to return to England. The Daily Mail's correspondent says…

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Transvaal War. Defeat of the Boers Near Senekal. Boers Fled Towards Lindley. Their Convoy Escaped. 4000 Rifles Surrendered. Boers Driven From Winberg. Sydney, Sunday night

Western Champion · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 16

Major-General Grenville's flying columm of 800 reinforced by MajorGeneral Brabant, with 600 men and seven guns, defeated a strong force of…

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A New War Terror

Forbes Times · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 6

UNDER date June 9 the Washington correspondent of the Loudon Daily News telegraph a as follows;—There seems to be no doubt that a prominent American naval officer has…

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The Romance of the “Spoils of War.” Soldiers Who Have Secured Millions

Forbes Times · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 6

ALTHOUGH there is as much glory as ever to be won on fields of battle, even the least mercenary of our soldiers must sometimes sigh for the good old days of Drake and…

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The Boer War. LONDON, July 2

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

Major-General Clements seized and burnt a Boer camp near Lindley. losing two killed and thirteen wounded The farmhouses in the Senekal…

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Our Sydney Letter. Sydney, July 5. the War

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 5

There is not the slightest doubt that we have at last fallen upon most warlike times. The Transvaal trouble is new considered as only the preliminary…

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Transvaal War

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 13 July 1900 · page 6

Private McPhee, a West Australian bushman, died at Buluwayo during the administration of anaesthetics. Major-Generals Clements and Paget have…

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China War

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 13 July 1900 · page 6

The foreigners at Pekin have occupied the palace of Prince Szu, opposite the Legations The Times states that all news from Chinese sources is tainted, and if the Chinese…

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Comic Side of War

Western Champion · Friday 13 July 1900 · page 7

The Brisbane "Figaro" is responsible for this: At a patriotic concert in one of the suburbs a lady had volunteered to recite "The Absent-minded…

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One From The War. a Brve Veteran Interviewed

Western Champion · Friday 13 July 1900 · page 15

There lives at Hoxton Park Staffsergeant J, Chalkley, who now carries on the trade of a market gardener. It would not need a Sherlock…

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