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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
451 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 23
It becomes more and more apparent, says the "Rand Post," that it may soon be considered necessary by the authorities at Pretoria to remove the English population…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday.—A Reuter's telegram from South Africa states that the Boers have just despatched an ultimatum to Great Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The declaration of war against Great Britain by the self-styled South African Republic—which claims to exclusively occupy the territory known as the Transvaal—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, speaking at a public meeting at Haddington, Scotland, last night, said that the Transvaal oligarchy,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rear-Admiral Pearson to-day received an intimation from the imperial authorities to the effect that a state of war exists in the Transvaal from to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The death of William Simpson is interesting to newspaper men throughout the world, Mr. Simpson was, as an artist, what Sir William Russell is as a writer—he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—Lady Sarah Wllson, after having volunteered for service as a nurse with the troops in South Africa, has been appointed war correpsondent for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Washington Bureau of Ordnance recently published some Interesting statistics of the details of the cost of annihilating the Spanish navy. Admiral Dewey (says the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The treatment accorded to prisoners of war during the early years of the present century by the two nations that wore long the chief belligerents, was altogether at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Among living war correspondents the name of Frederic Villiers holds a first place, and it was with a confidence which was not in any way disappointed that the audience at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The Boers are advancing on Laing's Nek and Ingogo unopposed by the British. Newcastle is expected to be occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The invasion of Natal and the Cape Colony by the Transvaal and Free State levies seems, according to cablegrams received in Sydney yesterday, to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Saturday.—The War Office has invited New Zealand to tender for £75,000 worth of corned beef and mutton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The Boom have doestroyed an armored train between Mafeking and Vryburg, in British Bechanaland, and close to the Transvaal border…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The above map of the territory affected by the war in South Africa will show our readers at a glance the principal points on which the interest of the situation hinges…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—It is reported that the British engaged the enemy at Spytfontein, a little to the south of Kimberley, when severe fighting took place, the object…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The rigorous censorship of all military news which has been established at Capetown isolates President Kruger from obtaining news by telegraph…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—At a largely attended meeting, held last night in the Guild-hall, London, at which references to the Transvaal were made, and at which the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The Third Battalion of Grenadier Guards and the First Battalion of the Coldstream Guards will leave Gibraltar for South Africa on the 25th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Refugees that have arrived in Natal from Johannesburg declare that the Boer authorities rushed into war only because they were buoyed with…
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