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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 56
LONDON, Monday. — Lieutenant-General [?] Hamilton captured a Boer gun and a Maxim at Winburg. Lord Roberts reports that at Smal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Even in the humans and moral sphere there are come real compensations for its ghastly evils. Putting aside as exceptional the immensely important welding influence which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONON, Wednesday.—General Hamilton is 10 miles north of Winburg. Genera Hunter's force includes General Paget's and half of General…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The concert promoted by Miss Mary Boucicault, at St. James' Hall, in aid of the fund to provide comforts for the soldiers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—During the fighting at Brandfort, Troopers G. G. Campbell and C. Jones, of the New South Wales Mounteds, were wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Reuter's correspondent states that it is believed that the Boers who retreated from the Smaldeel district are leaving the Zand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The equipment of a war correspondent," says Robert Machray, in his article on "The Soldiers of the Press," which appears in the "Windsor Magazine," depends a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The unwelcome task of checking and publishing the casualty lists in connection with the war is being performed by the War Office in a manner which deserves the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →LONDON, Thursday.—The new Governor of Delagoa Bay is treating corned beef, clothing, and boots destined for the Transvaal as contraband of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Lord Roberts telegraphs by cable cart north of the Zand River on Thursday: "The enemy is in full retreat. They occupied a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Lord Roberts has a force of 30,000 men, with which he is in pursuit of the Boers. Lord Roberts telegraphs from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.—The following casualties are reported to have occurred in the First Colonial Brigade under Major-General Hutton:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There can be no doubt of the opinion of the loyalists of Cape Colony as to the future of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. When it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON. Sunday Afternoon,—The British force under Major-General R. G. Broadwood overtook portion of a retreating Boer convoy to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday Afternoon.—Four hundred Boers surrendered to Lord Roberts at Kroonstad, laying down their arms and delivering up their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The correspondent of the London "Standard" at Kroonstad states that the British residents assert that most of the foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The proprietors of the "Evening News" and "Town and Country Journal" have received a cable from their Capetown agent announcing the death…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.—Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Rundle, commanding the 8th Division of the Army Corps, and Major-General…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.—Later details have been received in connection with the white flag outrage reported from a farm near Kroonstad…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—During the advance to Kroonstad, and when General French was three miles north of the Zand River, he threatened the…
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