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The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 3

LORD Roberts has arrived in London and has been accorded a splendid welcome. Fourteen thousand troops lined the route from Paddington to Buckingham Palace…

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Shooting at Balmain. a Young Man Badly Wounded

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 2

A serious shooting accident occurred at Balmain at an early hour on Friday morning, when a young man named Maurice Turpill, residing at…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 6

The Western Boer commando in Cape Colony is proceeding to Calvinia, 250 miles north of Capetown. The Eastern commando has broken…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 8

At a spontaneous meeting of surrenderers at Pretoria yesterday, a committee was farmed to appeal to the Boers still lighting to surrender…

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The War in China. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 6

The German expedition to Lientheng-hsu has returned to Tientsin. The expedition destroyed 2000 rifles and great quantities of ammunition,…

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The Transvaal War. Kruger Weak-hearted

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 5

Ex-President Kruger is suffering from weakness of the heart's action…

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The War in China. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 8

Colonel Tuloch. with some Beloochi. Australian. and Japanese companies of troops. is advancing upon Kao-living. to punish the Chinese for recent…

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The World's Soldiers

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 2

An authority tells us that during the most peaceful years the world has 3.700.000 soldiers, who are withdrawn from productive occupations to pose as…

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The Returning Soldiers. a Splendid Reception

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 5

The steamer "Orient," with the returned soldiers, arrived this morning. The troops were landed at…

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Latest War News Transvaal War. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 2

150 Boers mided Do Beer's farm near Kimberley. The country residents are flocking into Capetown. 800 mounted troops have been enrollod at Capetown…

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Transvaal War London, January 7

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 2

The Natal volunteers have been warned that their services may possibly be again required. Five hundred Mounted Infantry have…

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The War. [Through Reuter.] London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 2

BABINGTON has defeated Delarey's and Steenkamp's commandoes at Naauwpoort and is forcing them to retire north-west, capturing commandant…

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The War. Through Reuter. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 4

A FORCE of invaders has reached Calvinia, 250 miles north of Capetown. Other forces are east and south of Richmond, 490 miles north east of…

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The War in China. LONDON, Wednesday

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 5

THE Chinese around Peking and elsewhere are now growing submissive. The document containing the terms demanded by the Allies has been handed…

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The China War. London, January 7

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent in China states that Yah-sien has deen executed by order of the Empress-Dowager. There are now 30,000 Chinese regulars…

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The War Reuter's Service.copyright. Losses at Helvetia. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 5

SINCE the recent fighting at Helvetia 23 men of the garrison artillery and 21 men of the Hussars have been found to be missing…

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

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 2

COMMANDANTS De la Rey, Steenkamp, and Boshoff, with 5000 men, after successful cattle raiding in the Klipriverberg and Rietfontein districts, evaded the pursuit by Major…

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Our Soldiers Under Fire

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 6

"Linesman,"writing in the November BLACKWOOD describes the demeanour of the rank and file under fire in South Afriea. He says:—I have…

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Traveller. German Soldiering

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 1

Germany has no regular army in the sense in which that term is used in America and in England. There are no regular soldiers who enlist for long…

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