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The wars & local soldiers, 1902

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The Transvaal War

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 February 1902 · page 4

Mr. Bennett Burleigh estimates the Boer casualties in the recent drive at 100. The total " Bag" for the two days amounted to 600; including…

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The Transvaal War. London, Tuseday

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 February 1902 · page 7

A convoy procesding from Beanfort West to Fraserburg, escorted by 100 infantry and 60 of the District Mounted Infantry, was captured by…

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The Boer War. London

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 15 February 1902 · page 3

Delegates in Holland are taking steps to inform the Boer commandoes of the exact significance of the correspondence between Kuyper and Lord Landsdowne…

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

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 15 February 1902 · page 5

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

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Soldiers of Fortune

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 15 February 1902 · page 5

Soldiers of fortune were a great and glorious class in their time, but they have, says a writer in the "Pall Mall Gazette," fallen upon evil days. A good many hundreds, or…

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Alcohol in War

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1902 · page 4

"War's Aftermatch" is the title of a paper contributed to the "Forum" by Mr. W. K. Rose, Reuter's correspondent in the Soudan campaign…

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Off to the War

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1902 · page 2

EDITOR Pittock, of the Hillgrove "Guardian," went through from Tenterfield to Sydney in Thursday night's mail. He leaves with the Commonwealth Contingent…

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Late War News. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1902 · page 2

The Boer prisoners state that ammunition is scarce in the Boer ranks. Lord Roseberry hints at the unfolding of a grave scandal with regard to the…

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The Transvaal War. LONDON, February 13

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1902 · page 2

Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent, estimates that the Boer casualties during the recent "drive" in the northeast of the Orange River Colony…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 19 February 1902 · page 8

The recent drive demoralised the Boers, who hid in. the grass, in dongas, and the beds of the rivers, many shooting their horses…

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Cablegrams. L O N D O N, Monday. the Transvaal War

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 19 February 1902 · page 5

A large meeting of Irishmen held at Kimberley, passed resolutions protesting against the slanders upon the British Army…

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Late War News, A Sensational Letter. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 2

A seusational letter has been published from an officer at the front. He states that General Louis Botha was amongat the prisoners captured at Knoplaar in…

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A Soldier's Will

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 7

THERE has recently been decided in the Supreme Court of Cape Colony a case of very great interest to soldiers in the field and their…

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Commercial War

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 4

The present week has witnessed ah ixtraoroinary movement in local sommercial circles, the operation of which created quito a stir, and…

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The Transvaal War

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 2
Also in The Armidale Chronicle

The recent drive demoralised the Boers, who hid in the grass, in dongas, and the beds of the rivers, many shooting their horses. Thousands of cattle…

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The South.African War

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 7

Thus war-correspondent Julian Ralph:—How long so rich a nation as Groat Britain can continue to expend money at the rate of £200,000 a…

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The Boer War. London

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

A LARGE meeting of Irishmen held at Kimberly, passed resolutions protesting against the slanders upon the British Army. Two Boer delegates, Wessals and…

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The Transvaal War. London, Tursday

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 2

Mr. Weasels and Mr. Wolmarans, two of the Boer delegates in Europe, who suddenly sailed for America with the hope of fostering foreign…

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The Man behind the Boulder. (This poem is written by a Chicago gentleman. It is printed to show the American view of the Transvaal war)

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 4

Britain's heart is sad to-day Over her army's brief reverses, Bloodier still must be the fray Ere the cloud of war disperses,…

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