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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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The War in China. London, Saturday. Russia and the Empress Dowager

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

M. De Giers, the Russian Minister in China, has sent a memorial to the Empress Dowager urging her to return to [?] and promising…

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The Transvaal War. London

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

Lord Roberts has issued a proclamation stating that when all the Boer leaders submit, and every cannon is surrendered, peace will…

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The Wounded Constable

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

Constable Harris, who was wounded by the Breelong blocks about a week ago, returned [?] port Macquaries by [?]…

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Kruger a private soldier

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

The King of Belguim discountenances pro Boers. He considers Kruger nearly a private soldier…

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Death of a Victorian soldier

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

Albert Arthur Gibb of the Victorian Naval contingent in China has died on the hospital ship…

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A Shooting Affray. a Constable Wounded. Sydney

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1900 · page 2

A serious affair took place in Oxford-street at 8.30 last evening, when Plainclothes Constable E. G. Ward, of No. 3 Station, was shot behind the left ear. The…

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Queenslanders at the war

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 29 October 1900 · page 2

The Queenslanders captured two Field Cornets, and a number of waggons belonging to the enemy…

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Indian soldiers to arrive

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

A contingent of one hundred icon, representatives of the Indian [?] will take part in the celebrations of the Australian…

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Shattering War Balloons. Globe

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 12 November 1900 · page 2

The Italians have recently been making experiments of Bring on balloons at the camp of San Maurigio. In the first experiments [?]…

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Boers preparing for war

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1900 · page 2

Many young Boers had been especially trained as military engineers in Europe and were held in re[?]ess for the war…

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The Transvaal War. London, November 14. Prisoners at Mafeking

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1900 · page 2

Batches of Boer prisoners are arriving at Mafeking. Among recent arrivals were 80 Boers captured near Oa[?]hopp, where the…

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Colonial soldiers in South Africa

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 23 November 1900 · page 2

Captain Granville De Laune Ryde, of the New South Wales Bushmen's Contingent has recovered from his wounds…

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Letter From a Cooma Soldier. Trooper W. Butler

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 23 November 1900 · page 2

Trooper W Butler, last of Cooma who went with the Imperial Bushmen to the South African war, writes to his parents as follows:—…

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British General fatality wounded

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 26 November 1900 · page 2

At a midnight raid on a farmhouse a Hussar seeing a Boer arise rushed forward and received a bullet in the stomach. The Boer…

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New Zealand soldiers' death

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 30 November 1900 · page 2

Privates King and Palmer of New Zealand have died in[?] fever…

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South African War. a Letter From the Late Private Fulton

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 14 December 1900 · page 2

The following is a copy of a letter received from Private T. A. Fulton, by his mother, and was written not long before his death:—…

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The South African war

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 17 December 1900 · page 2

Farther information of the reverse of the forces is to hand Forced under De Lang and Boyers attacked Clements at dawn on…

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The Boer War. LONDON, December 14

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1900 · page 2

Fifteen hundred Boers are threatening Komatie Poort, the border station on the Delagoa Bay-Pretoria Railway. Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen…

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The Transvaal War Guerilla Tactics

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 21 December 1900 · page 2

The Boers who have settled in Madagascar, not content with free grants of lands, claimed to [?] the natives. General Ga[?]…

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The Girl He Left Behind Him. an Incident of the Transvaal War. Original Story.—by Alice Eyton. Chapter I.

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 22 December 1900 · page 1

"And these o'er unknown seas to unknown lands Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death; And, all unconsciously, shape every act And bend each wandering step to this one end—…

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