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The wars & local soldiers, 1902

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Latest Telegraphic News. Through Grevile's Telegram Company. The Boer War. London

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 March 1902 · page 2

THE British artillery and infantry displayed a rare courage at Tweebosch, but the mounted infantry appear to have fled in a blind panic…

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The Transvaal War

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 2

The war correspondent of the "Standard " has telegraphed to that paper an account of the disaster to Lord Melbuen's forces. The Boets,…

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A War Correspondent's Adventure

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 5

In his book, "War Correspondence as a Fine Art," the late Mr. Archibald Forbes tells the following story of his adventures in Paris when the Germans took possession of…

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The Boer War. London

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 3

Lord Methuen with 200 men and 2 guns, though isolated fought for three hours while 100 North Lancashires repelled the Boers' repeated attacks…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 6

Brigadier-General Bruce Hamilton, in the Eastern Transvaal, enrprised a commande on the 15th lost, in the Ngothi Basin. Font Boers…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 7

The Boers who were driven through the Kuda Pass of the Drakensberg into Natal, in the direction of Ennerdale, have recrossed the mountains…

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Cablegrams. London. Thursday. the Transvaal War

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 5

Kruger still reckons upon Divine intervention. He describes the Boers as God's elect, and says, it is imposisible for them to surrender their…

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The Boer War. LONDON

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1902 · page 2

The attempt by a Boer commando to cross the railway south of Bloemfontein was repulsed. The DAILY MAIL states that 2500…

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South African War. LONDON, Sunday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 March 1902 · page 5

COMMANDANTS DE WET and Delarey are trying to join forces at Pangs…

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Latest Telegraphic News. Through Grevile's Telegram Company. The Boer War. London

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 March 1902 · page 3

ON Saturday last 29 Boers, who belonged to one of the commandoes to the north of Balmoral, surrendered, owing to the approach of winter…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 26 March 1902 · page 8

A meeting of the women of Munich, the capital of Bavaria, recently sent a memorial to Queen Alexandra appealing to her to use her influence "to…

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The Death-cry of War. Zola Thinks This War Will Be the Last

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 26 March 1902 · page 2

Is it a dream to believe that we are witnessing war's last agony? Do not a thousand symptoms indicate the ract? May not the furore paused by the question of milltary…

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Cablegrams. London, Monday. the Transvaal War

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 26 March 1902 · page 5

A weekly shipment of light cavalry horses is leaving England for South Africa. Schalk Burger, Reitz, Lucas, Meyer,…

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Millions in Wages. Work of Woolwich Arsenal in the War

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 26 March 1902 · page 6

Lord Stanley, financial secretary to the War Office, was present at the annual dinner of the Royal Arsenal Association of Foremen at the…

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Returned Soldiers

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 26 March 1902 · page 5

The steamer "Aberdeen" has arrived at Melbourne, from Capetown, with number of returned soldiers…

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Late War News. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 28 March 1902 · page 2

Six British staff officers, including Lord Kitchener's aid-de-camp, accompanied Schalk Burgher and other Boer leaders on the journey from Pretoria to Kronstadt…

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The Transvaal War. LONDON, March 24

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 28 March 1902 · page 3

A weekly shipment of light cavalry horses is leaving England for South Africa Messrs. Schalk Burger, Reitz, Lucas Meyer, Kroogh, and Vanderwalt arrived…

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The Transvall War

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 29 March 1902 · page 2

On Saturday last 29 Boers, who belonged to one of the commandoes to the north of Balmoral, surrendered, owing to the approach of winter…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 March 1902 · page 6

Six British staff officers, including Lord Kitchener's aide-de-camp, accompanied Mr. Schalk Burger and other Boer leaders on the journey…

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Naval War of the Future

The Inverell Times · Saturday 29 March 1902 · page 6

The war of the future is bound to become more and more a war of individuals, an affair of initiative, in which doing the best thing, after a…

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