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

The wars & local soldiers, 1900

588 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 28 of 30

The Transvaal War. London, Thursday

Forbes Times · Saturday 20 October 1900 · page 4

Michael Davitt says the Nationalists are prepared to present an address of sympathy to Kruger. Pro[?] a German missionary, has been sentenced at Durban to one year’s imprisonment…

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China War. LONDON, October 16

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 20 October 1900 · page 2

Documents discovered in the Yamen of the Viceroy of Chi-ii prove that the Chinese government largely subsidised the “Boxers.”…

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The China War. London

Forbes Times · Saturday 20 October 1900 · page 4

Fears are entertained for Canton. The Yang-tae-kiang is full of jucks carrying troops, provisions, and ammunition past Hankow to Han Chung, whence canals connect with…

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The Boer War. LONDON, October 16

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 20 October 1900 · page 2

Influential burghers are trying to convince Commandant de Wet, Commandant De la Rey, and Commandant Botha of the futility of resistance…

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Transvaal War. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney

Western Champion · Friday 26 October 1900 · page 1

The Queensland Bushmen surprised the Boers at Roinar's river, capturing 18, also many cattle and sheep. Colonel Errol occupied Buffleshook…

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The Transvaal War. London

Forbes Times · Saturday 27 October 1900 · page 4

Mr. W. P. Schreiner has resigned his position as a member of the Cape Colony Assembly. Holiand is not disposed to tolerate any useless pro-Boer demonstration…

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The China War. London

Forbes Times · Saturday 27 October 1900 · page 4

The foreign ministers at Pekin are conjointly drawing up a basis of settlement which will take the form of an ultimatum to the Chinese. The Kaiser has expressed a hope that the…

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The Boer War. LONDON, October 23

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 27 October 1900 · page 2

Lord Roberts has decided that be will rigorously punish those burghers who, having taken the oath of neutrality, have violated the oath and are…

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The Transvaal War London

Forbes Times · Saturday 3 November 1900 · page 5

General French, operating in the eastern portion of teh Transvaal Colony, has captured [?] cattle and a great quantity of stores. His force has killed and captured [?]…

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The Boer War. LONDON, October 31

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 3 November 1900 · page 2

Sir Alfred Milner has requested returning colonials desiring government positions in South Africa to leave their addresses…

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War News

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 7 November 1900 · page 4

The Boers have destroyed a portion of the Cape-Johaunesburgh main trunk railway line to the south of Edenburgh, in the Orange River…

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War News

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 7 November 1900 · page 2

Many of the Boers who surrended and went to Delagoa Bay have rejoined the Boer commandoes. A British force met a party of forty…

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Bush Sketches. (BY xi.) the War Bird

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 7 November 1900 · page 4

A large box tree partly dead, some of the lower limbs bare of leaves and smaller brunches. On one of these lower limbs sits a bold eagle. At the…

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New Zealand Soldiers

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 7 November 1900 · page 2

Forty two New Zealanders, who went to the Cape, have joined the Mounted Police…

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Welcome Home. To Mr. and Mrs. Keith

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 9 November 1900 · page 12

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble there's no place like home."…

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The Boer War

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 10 November 1900 · page 2

Lord Robert is organising a flying column for the suppression of Boer Marauders It is exported the British headquarters will be shifted to Johannesberg…

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The China War

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 10 November 1900 · page 6

The Chinese Court, alarmed at the rapid approach of the Allies, has ordered 20,000 troops to oppose them,…

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The Boer War. LONDON, Nov, 4

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 10 November 1900 · page 2

Field-Marshal Lord Roberta has applied to the nation not to treat the soldiers returning from the war to stimulants…

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Gallant Australians. Best Performance of the War. Surrounded for 13 DAYS. (From The Times September 19.)

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 10 November 1900 · page 4

The following extract from a letter received from an officer in General Broadwood's Cavalry Division describes the defence by colonel Hore,…

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Soldiers' Complaints

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 November 1900 · page 2

Several of the Australian troopers complain in the British newspapers for being returned home in the steerage…

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