The War
The recent fighting in the Free State has delivered into the hands of the Boers an additional number of British prisoners of war…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1900
1,109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 56
The Transvaal War
Sir,—Just a word or two re the above. I have closely followed the movements of the British all through the campaign, and have noticed with deep regret the marked lonieucy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The War the Ambush Disaster. Serious Colonial Losses. Many New Zealanders Missing
LONDON, Friday.—At the Doorn Spruit ambush 17 of Major Robson's New Zealand Mounted Infantary were captured. The remainder of the New…
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LONDON, Sunday.—It transpires that the Boer commando which was defeated by Lord Methuen's force at Boshof, 33 miles north-west from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Holloway's Dramatic Season. "A Soldier and a Man."
On Saturday evening next Mr. Charles Holloway's Dramatic Company, which has recently been playing in Brisbane, whence they will come here, commence a short…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hero's Life of Adventure Chat with an Old Soldier
At Hoxton Park, within easy reach of Liverpool, N.S.W., lives one of England's heroes, Staff-sergeant J. Chalkley, late of the Bengal Army Commissariat Department and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Fodder Contracts
LONDON, Tuesday.—The War Office has signed fodder contracts till October…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News From the War
Apart from the general news as to the progress of the war, and the telegrams announcing the deaths of members of the Australian Contingents, there is an…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The advance of Lord Roberts from Bloemfontein has been delayed, owing to the prevalence of pneumonia among his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Man Who Wrote "The Soldiers of the Queen."
Says a thoughtful critic:—"Nowadays, the man who writes a really popular song receives more outward and visible signs of his success than the most successful…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sport in War Time
A writer in "Success" recalls the fact that horse and foot races and all kinds of sport lightened the lives of the troops engaged in the Crimean war. A private of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War The Position in the Free State Burghers Resume Their Mausers. the British Guarding Their Communications
LONDON, Wednesday.—Abundant confirmation is now to hand that the arms given up by the surrenderers are obsolete weapons. The Free State…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Holloway Dramatic Season. "A Soldier and a Man."
Extensive preparations are being made for the production at the Victoria Theatre of the military spectacular play, "A Soldier and a Man," to take place on Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A New South Welshman Wounded
LONDON, Wednesday.—Corporal Allen, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, was severely wounded during the fighting at Karee Siding on…
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The warrior Cronje, with a number of other sufferers from the fortune of war, is now safely located at St. Helena. Steyn has said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Lord Roberts' Movements. the Irish Brigade for Bloemfontein
LONDON, Wednesday.—Heavy rains in the Orange Free State are impending the movements of the forces under Lord Roberts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Items
A meeting to advocate an immediate cessation of the war in South Africa with a view to the negotiations of a pacific settlement was held on March…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The British War Casualties
LONDON, Thursday.—The British casualties since the war broke out, from the second week in October to April 7, without Reddersberg, reached…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Biograph War Pictures
LONDON, Friday.—Mr. Tore Fitzgerald has secured Wyed Freedman's Palace Biograph war pictures for Australia. The company sailed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in the Future
"A Soldier," writing in Macmillan on the war in South Africa, predicts that "the warfare of the future will be it war of communications, in which the deciding…
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