Soldiers' Bones for Manure
It is estimated that in the year 1830, more than a million bushels of "human and in human bones" were imported from the Continent of Europe into the port of Hull…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mid North Coast · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1901
313 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 6 of 16
Brilliantly Dressed Soldiers
Mr. Thomas Atkins, taking all grades of him, even if not actually the best dressed, is certainly the most brilliantly garbed soldier in the world. But the cost of this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British-boer War
The Capetown correspondent of the Times states that the loyalists of the colony are intensely apprehensive lest the absence of Sir Alfred Milner, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British Budget. £60,000,000 War Loan. London
THE House of Commons has authorised the raising of a loan of sixty million pounds (£60,000,000), in connection with the South African war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers' Bones for Manure
It is estimated that in the year 1830, more than a million bushels of "human and in human bones" were imported from the Continent of Europe into the port of Hull…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brilliantly Dressed Soldiers
Mr. Thomas Atkins, taking all grades of him, even if not actually the best dressed, is certainly the moot brilliantly garbed soldier in the world. But the cost of this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Laws of War
The "laws of war," as at present formulated by the civilised nations, forbid the use of poison against the enemy; murder by treachery, as, for example, assuming the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South African War News
FOLLOWING will be found a summary of the principal cables received at the beginning of the week:--It is reported that during March…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The British Budget. the Coat of the War. London, April 19
In the course of his Budget speech, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said the expenditure of the financial year was L183,500,000. which included a war expenditure of L68,500,000. The total of the National…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chocolate for Soldiers
The merits of chocolate as food for troops in the field appear to be becoming rapidly and widely appreciated. In the recent autumn manoeuvres of the Austrian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British-boer War
Colonel W. P. Pulteney, D.S.O., commanding a strong British column. has occupied Roossenekal, recently the Boer headquarters in the southern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Laws of War
The "laws of war," as at present formulated by the civilised nations, forbid the use of poison against the enemy ; murder by treachery, as, for example, assuming the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Boer War. London
Lieutenant Reid, of the imperial Bushmen, with 20 others, captured, near Oliphant's River, Commandant Schroeder and 40 Boers.. They also secured Lowes, mules, waggons,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British-boer War
Commandant-General Louis Botha is at Ermelo, in the Eastern Transvaal, close to the Swaziland frontier. Brigadier-General J.G. Dartnell, late…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →South African War News
FOLLOWING will be found a summary of the principal cables received at the beginning of the week:-- Some Australians, prior to leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Despatch in the Year 2000
General Shilling, to the Secretary of State for War, January 1st, 2000: We managed to get within fifty miles of the enemy to-day, and opened fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Chocolate for Soldiers
The merits of chocolate as food for troops in the field appear to be becoming rapidly and widely appreciated. In the recent autumn manuouTres of the Austrian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British-boer War
A number of prominent leaders of a big commando is strongly entrenched at Partheestein. Colonel Babington, after shelling the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Boer War. London
Boers concentrated in considerable numbers near Klerkesdorp, where they strongly entrenched themselves. Major-General Babington shelled the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Despatch in the Year 2000
General Shilling, to the Secretary of State for War, January 1st, 2000: We managed to get within fifty, miles of the enemy to-day, and opened fire…
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