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The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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The Boer War

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

ALL Boer raiders have been ordered out of the Orange River Colony. Lord Kitchener reports that an additional 240 Boers, with 250 rifles…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

The Boer commando from Boksburg, 106 men, has surrendered at Middelburg. Scouts have captured near…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 6

Lientenant-Colonol Hsig near Perston is persuing Commandants [?] and Malan. The Victorians after bombarding…

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The War in China. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

The appointment of many antiforeign officials in the provinces simultaneously with the announcement by M. Voyron that 10,000 French troops…

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N.S W. Soldiers

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 7

Brigadier General De Lisle in a speech to the N.S.W. Mounted rifles on the anniversary of their landing in South Africa concluded with the…

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Welcome Home

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

ON Saturday morning there was a large crowd of citizens in the Council Chambers assembled to extend a welcome home from the front to Lance-Corporal Gilbert Legh and Private J. Gribble…

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Latest War News. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

General French, the noted British cavalry leades, who has been in continuous active service since the commencement of the war in South Africa, will…

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Transvaal War LONDON, April 25

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 3

The British troops stationed at Honeynest Kloof, a station on the Capetown to Kimberley railway line, about thirty-seven miles south of Kimberley, had a sharp…

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Our Wires. (Per Greville's Telegram Company) the Boer War, London

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

THE British discovered 19 field guns and a quantity of ammunition in the vicinity of Shanhaikivan. It is reported that Boer agents, who were…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 3

Mr. J, X. Merriman, one of the Afrikander Bond delegates to Great Britain, addressed. 2500 people, who were admitted by tioket only, in the…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 8

Prior to embarkation on the Tongariro, on their retain to Australia, some of the Australians wrecked the office in Capetown of the 'South…

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Cablegrams London, Monday. the Transvaal War

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 5

A renegade Englishman led the raiders who looted a farm near Craddock, and sprinkled strychnine on the food which was left…

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The War in China. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 3

The Germans have defeated the Chinese with heavy loss at Hai-shan kwan, forcing them to retire into Shensi,…

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Latest War News. LONDON

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 2

Lord Kitchoner is Contianing his scouring movement, and the generals under his command are doing good work. In all directions the country is being…

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Transvaal War. LONDON, April 29

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 3

Among the recent surrenders. to Brigadier-General Plumer, in the Transvaal, were an ex-landdrost named Munnik, who was a great inciter of the Cape Dutch,…

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The War. [Through Reuter.] London, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 2

TWENTY-FIVE men of the Prince of Wales' Light Horse kept 400 Boers at bay for eight hours in a position 15 miles from Kroonstad, Orange River…

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Our Wires. (Per Greville's Telegram Company) the Boer War. London

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 3

A RENEGADE Englishman led the raiders who looted a farm near Cradock and sprinkled strychnine on the food which was left. General Schalk Burger, the so-called…

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The Transvaal War

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 2

Lieutenant Reid, of the Imperial Bushmen, with 20 others, captured, near Oliphant's River, Commandant Schroder and 40 Boers, and horses,…

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The British War Loan

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 4

At the first moiety war loan, Rothschild and Sons were allotted £11,000,000, J. P. Morgan and Co. £10,000,000. and the Bank of England £9,000,000…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 6

Major de Moulin's column, after scouring the district south-east of the Orange River, has brought to Aliwal North thirty prisoners, 60,000 sheep,…

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