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The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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The Transvaal War. LONDON, Jan. 19

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 3

The mishap to the N. S, W. Lancers and Australian Horse is attributed to treachery on the part of a Dutch farmer, who, it is believed, warned the…

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European News. LONDON, Saturday. The Transvaal War. London, Friday. Skion Kop captured. Desperate fighting

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 3

Sir Charles Warren surprised and captured Skion Kop on Tuesday night the fighting lasting throughout Wednesday…

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Soldiers at Kimberley

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 3

There are 6000 miners with the soldiers at Kimberley…

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The Public and the War

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 29 January 1900 · page 4

This is the first serious war that we have fought under a microscope, and some of the consequences of that new condition are by no means…

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European News. The Transvaal War. London

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

Heavy firing was heard at Lady-smith on Monday. It it supposed General White was making a diversion. The health of the garrison…

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The Transvaal War. LONDON

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 3

General Warren captured the Boer position on Spion Kop on Tuesday night. The Boer artillery was very severe on Wednesday, there being…

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European News. Transvaal War. London

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 3

Lord Roberts' movements. Lord Roberts intends to assign an important share of the operations preparatory to the invasion…

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Scarcity of war news

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1900 · page 2

There is an entire absence of news from the front…

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Public School teachers' war fund

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1900 · page 2

The New South Wales and Victorian public school teachers have established a patriotic fund…

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European News. The Transvaal War. London

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1900 · page 2

The Mayor of Kimberley (Mr H. A. Oliver) heliographs that the citizens will endure any privations in defence of their…

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German Criticism on the War. the Times

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1900 · page 1

On all aides in Germany the opinion is expressed that Kimberley, and even Ladysmith, ought to have been erased as primary…

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Soldiers Wives make our War Balloons

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 8 February 1900 · page 6

MUCH has lately been heard of the war ballon a of the army, which are so much. superior to any others in use at home or abroad, whether private or Governmental…

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War Notes

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 8 February 1900 · page 3

Ladysmith is 119 miles from Pietermaritzburg and 180 from Durban. Lord George Hamilton has thirteen nephew and [?]son on active service in…

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The Wounded in Modern Warfare. How They Fare on the Battlefield

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 8 February 1900 · page 6

IT is fortunate for wounded Briton and Boer that they have not fought and fallen in battle under the conditions which governed the treatment of the…

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The Transvaal War

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 2

Mr. Bennet Burleigh states thai the Boars were quitting Spion Kop when the retirement of the British caused them to return. Sir Redvers…

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"A Declaration of War."

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 1

Here is a story of Colonel Baden-Powell sent by a Pieter-maritzburg correspondent"—The Boer artillery opened a…

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European News. The Transvaal War. London

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 2

Details come slowly to hand of the crossing of the Tugele River by the British of the Tugela under General Sir Redvers Buller…

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Australian War correspondents missing

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

Messrs. Lambie, of the Melbourne "Age," sad Hales, of the "Western Australian," war correspondents, are reported as missing…

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African War Notes. of General Interest

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1900 · page 3

Lord Roberts says:—"Reports which indicate that disloyalty exists among Irish regiments are absolutely nature. In the hour of…

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Latest European News. The Transvaal War. London

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

Major-General Macdonald safeguards the troops who are operating from Belmont in the direction of Douglas, in Griqualand West. He…

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