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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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European News. LONDON, Saturday. The Transvaal War

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 1 January 1900 · page 2

Lientanant Winston Churchill, the correspondent for the " Morning Post," who recently escaped from Pretoria and arrived at…

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Lyddite As a Logical War Material Medical Press

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 1 January 1900 · page 4

If the object of war be to destroy as many of the enemy as possible then it follows that the more effective the means of…

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A Question of Uniform in War. Brgad Arrow

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 1 January 1900 · page 3

The customs of war are based on custom, and are to a great extent formulated by Vattel and other writers on International law, by…

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The Transvaal War London

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 3

Particulars relating to the battle of Sunnyside are now to hand, and it is evident that the British troops achieved a big ssuccess. For the…

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The Transvaal War. LONDON, Dec. 29

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 2

Mr. Winston Churchill, the correspondent for the Morning Post, who recently occupied from Pretoria and arrived at Durban, estimates the total…

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European News. LONDON, Monday. The Transvaal War Boer attack on Ladysmith repulsed

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 8 January 1900 · page 2

The Boers attacked the British Camp at Ladysmith but were everywhere repulsed. Fighting still continues in this locality…

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War Notes

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 11 January 1900 · page 3

A NAVAL friend, writing to the "London Times" from the camp, says:—"The Boors complain that we are not 'playing the game, they only expected to fight…

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The Transvaal War. LONDON, Jan. 6

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 2

Major-General J. D. P. French has again been successful against the enemy near Colesberg. One thousand Boers, at 5 o'clock on…

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European News. LONDON, Friday. The Transvaal War. Meeting of the British. Parliament

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 3

Arrangements are being made for a session of the Imperial Parliament, commencing January 30th…

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Science and War. Nature

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1900 · page 1

There can be little doubt that the presence of another scientific instrument, the balloon at Ladksmith, has saved…

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Death Duties and Those Killed in War. Broad Arrow

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1900 · page 4

The suggestion that the death duties shall not bo levied on estates which pass owing to war casualties, opens out a…

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European News. (By cablegram from our correspondent.) LONDON, Saturday. The Transvaal War

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1900 · page 2

General Sir Redvers Boiler on Thursday advanced from Springfield, occupied the south bank of the Tugela River at Potgeiter's…

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War Notes and Incidents

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 4

The Boer paper, the 'Standard and Diggers' News" of November 22, declares that the "final seal had been upon the fate of both Kimberly and…

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The Transvaal War. LONDON, Jan. 13

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 3

It is officially Announced by the War Offi[?]e that at the recent battle at Lady-smith the British casualties were as follows:—…

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Letters From the War. Former Cooma Residents

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 2

Mrs. J. S. Soott of "Sherwood", cooma, has received the following interesting letter from her son Arthur who is at presence serving at Fort…

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Some Incidents of the Boer War of 1881

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 1

In view of the present crisis it may not be uninteresting (says the London. "Globe" military correspondent) to recall some experiences of the Boor War…

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Latest European News. LONDON, Friday. The Transvaal War. Five Colonial troopers killed

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 3

A patrol of sixteen of the New South Wales Lancers, and Adelaide Horse, were ambushed by the enemy. Two escaped, five were…

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An Irish Soldier's Furlough

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 5

In the autumn of 1825, some private affairs culled mo into the sister kingdom; and as I did not travel like Polyphemus, with my eye out, I gathered a few samples of Irish…

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About Soldiers' Wives

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 5

The wife of an American soldier—when he happens to be married—has a comparatively happy time of it. But it is different elsewhere and the condition is at its worst…

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European News. LONDON, Saturday. The Transvaal War

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 2

Further details of the disaster to the Australian Horse and the New South Wales Lancers, in the ambush at Randsburg, give the…

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