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The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 8

Mr. Bennet Burleigh, special war correspondent of the 'Daily Telegraph,' reports that General Christian De Wet is at Vrede, among the…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 4

The Boers who attacked the British near O'Neill's farm, under Meju[?] came from Orange River Colony, and numbered 800. A portion of these…

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The War in China. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 6

Russia notified that the occupation of Manchuria will continue until order and tranquility are established. The 'Official Messenger,' of St…

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The War in China. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 8

Beuter's Agency reports that advices have been received from Canton to the effect that the Imperial Court has informed the Viceroy…

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Soldiers' Bones for Manure

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 2

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…

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Brilliantly Dressed Soldiers

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 2

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…

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London. Wednesday. the Boer War

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 3

Eight Bushmen, two of whom were wounded, expelled 40 burghers from the Iron Pass, capturing the key to Petersburg. General Plumer has commended the gallantry of the Bushmen…

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Transvaal war LONDON, April 8

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 2

News from Capetown states that on Saturday last the Boers under Commandant Scheepers captured 70 men if the 5th Laucors and Brabant's Horse near…

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Latest War News Transvaal. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 2

The Boers are still being forced towards the Zulu and Swaziland borders, the British effort being unrelaxed. Commandant Grobelan with a commando at 800 Boers…

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The War. [Through Reuter.] London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 3

THE Boers left a 4.7 gun attached to an empty train at Heidelberg, south-east of Johannesberg. Parties of the enemy are daily surrendering to the British at…

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The Transvaal War

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 2

One hundred Boers, including Grobelaar and Potziter, surrendered to General Plumer when he occupied Warmbad…

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The Boer War

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 3

GROBELLAAR with 800 men, tried to get between Vryheid and the Zululand border, but was stopped by; General Alderson and troops from…

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The War in China

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 3

SOME German soldiers stopped the Sedan chairs of the British and American Ministers at Pekin. Several of the Foreign Ministers…

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Returning From the War !

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 3

Quite recently a number of warriors returned from S. Africa. In the greeting crowds some looked for faces they will never see again in life ; some…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 2

Commandant Grobelaar, with 800 men. tried to get north between Vryheld and the Aulaland border, is the south-eastern Transvaal, bat was…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 3

Two brothers named Coetzee, far mere, have been brought at prisoners into Mafeking, charged with barber ing some Boers…

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The War fa China. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 2

Borne German soldiers stopped the seden chairs of Sir Ernest Satow, the British Minister at Pekin, and Mr. Rockhill, the United States Special…

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The War in China. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 6

LiHung Chang believes that Prince Tusn and General Tung-Faheiang are creating a diversion in order to secure their own personal pardons…

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Cablegrams London, Thursday. the War in China

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 5

The Russian Minister at Pekin, instead of advocating the Chinese cause, will henceforth support a policy of the utmost severity…

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Transvaal War London, April 12

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at Capetown telegraphs the statement that Louis Botha, the Boer Commandant-General, has intimated that he is proposed to re-open negotiations…

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