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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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The Boer War. London, Saturday, Raiding Commandos

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 2 September 1901 · page 2

Three hundred Boers have invaded the Vryburg district of Cape Colony, and 150 have [?] the Phillipstown district, and are now…

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The Boer War. London, Saturday. Treason at the Cape

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 9 September 1901 · page 2

The Hon. Daniel Petras vanden Heever, one of the members of the Cape. Legislative Council for the North-Eastern…

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Two Soldiers of Genius. French and Plumer

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 9 September 1901 · page 4

Mr. Edgar Wallace, the "Daily Mail" correspondent, who has made a name for by his exposure of the remarkable…

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The Wounded Sailor. Spectator

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 20 September 1901 · page 4

The British Medical Association is sitting at Cheltenham and some very interesting facts have been brought forward a…

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Incidents of the War. Capture of Steyn's Letters

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 23 September 1901 · page 4

Lord Kitchener has forwarded to the War Office the following letters found in the baggage of ex-President Styn when he was nearly…

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The Latest Song. [?] "Soldiers of the [?]

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 30 September 1901 · page 2

[?] be nutritions. And remarkably [?] [?] You happy bright and Far [?] when you're [?]…

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The Japanese Soldiers. Pall Mall Gazette

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 4 October 1901 · page 4

The Japanese soldiers need nothing to make them the equal of any army of the West. They are faithful, brave, and…

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The Heroines of War

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 14 October 1901 · page 2

Mr. A. G. Hales, the war correspondent, pleads in this week's issue of the "Week End" for a national memorial of the services…

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War in South Africa. LONDON, Oct, 14

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 18 October 1901 · page 2

General Botha retreated through most difficult country parallel to the western frontier of Swaziland, until finding that the British barred his…

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Dooley on Disqualifying the Enemy. The Great American Humorist and Satirist has another Double- Edged Satire on the Boer War

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 4

"Th' Hon. Lord Gin'ral Puntington-Canew reports that he captured wan cow, wan duck, wan pound iv ham, two cans iv. beans an' a baby…

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[?]Eeb for Use in War. New York Herald

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 2

From Russia by way of the British War Office comes a suggestion to the effect that honey bees be tried as military…

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Great Britain and the War

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 6 December 1901 · page 4

Mr. Theophilus L. Schreiner, who is on his way back to South Africa, after a year's propagandist workin England, writing to the London "Times" from…

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Late Boar War Items

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 16 December 1901 · page 2

The columns of Major-General Bruce Hamilton, Colonel Rawlinson, and Colonel Williams co-operated in the capture…

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Britain's China war losses

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 23 December 1901 · page 2

Seven office's killed, 13 wounded; 83 man killed, and 256 wounded form the total of Britain's losses in the Chinese war…

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The War in South Africa. Desperate Fighting. Dec. 23

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 27 December 1901 · page 2

Sharp fighting during three days has taken place in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony. The amenities were numerous…

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General Cables. LONDON, Monday. The Boer War

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 30 December 1901 · page 2

At the engagement near Ermelo, Eastern Transvaal, six Boers in khai were chased, but mistaken for British troops…

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