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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
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LONDON, Wednesday.—Reuter's correspondent telegraphs that the British cruiser Thets righted the German merchantman Kaiser in the Mediterranean…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday—The British Government is asking for a supplementary grant of £10,300,000 to the army estimates The debates on the Address in Reply…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—The latest news from Natal states that British cavalry patrois from Ladismith have had an engagement with the advance forces of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The prevailing war spirit was clearly manifested at the Wickham Cricket Club concert last night. One of the items was the ever-popular "Soldiers of the Queen,"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—In the House of Commons last night, Mr. A. J. Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury, introduced the Queen's' message, notifying that a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—President Kruger reports that Lieutenant Nesbitt and seven of his men were seriously and not slightly wounded, as stated in a previous cable, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—It is reported at the War Office that Major-General Sir W. P. Symons who is in command of the British troops in Natal has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON Friday.— Mr. Chamberlain's speech occupied, two and three-quarter hours in delivery. Mr. Balfour, in his speech, traced the war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—During the debate on the Address-in-Reply to the Queen's Speech in the House of Commons last night, the Hon. Philip Stanhope, member for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—It is reported at Capetown that Colonel Baden Powell, who is in command at Mafeking, feigning a retreat, drew the Boers under Commandant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The authorities at Durban have seized as contraband of war the cargo of Jarrahdale sleepers consigned to the Orange Free State, by the barque…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The prevalence of war in an important part of the British Empire, meaning as it does heavy losses in men and money to the motherland, is one of those occasions in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When the powerful forces of the Boers which were pressing on the garrisons at Ladismith and Glencoe are considered, the victory achieved by the British force at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, Sunday, 12.55 a.m.—When the Peers opened fire upon Glencoe from guns posted on a mountain height commanding the town, Major-General Sir W.P. Symons,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →If the pieces on the board in the great war-game which is now proceeding in northern Natal were not composed of human flesh and blood the different moves made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—The Lord Mayor of London in response to an appeal from the Duke of Cambridge has opened a fund to aid the widows and dependents of those…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—The officer in command of a British force in an armoured train sent in the direction of Elandslaagte, a station between Glencoe and Dundee, has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—Three hundred and fifty Boers wounded at Mafeking have arrived at Pretoria and Johannesburg. Several Australians who were serving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Woods Sampson, who is now a major in the Natal Imperial Light Horse, and who was connected with the Jameson raid, was severely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The British victory at Glencoe on Friday, great as ware its consequences, was hardly less important than the attack made the following day on the Boer position at…
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