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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 56
The returned warriors hold of New South Wales are going to be killed with kindness. All day there are people who want to do something nice for them, and this occurs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The invalided Queensland soldiers passed through Newcastle by the mail train last evening for Brisbane, and upon arrival were met at the railway station by Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A St. Petersburg correspondent, writing on April 2, says:—At last I have been able to get an answer to my inquiries as to the tenor of the report sent home by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The German at present enjoy the highest reputation for practical military sagacity, but they, too, have had their misfortunes "Nobody to my knowledge…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Rev. E. F. Hardy, most famous of war chaplains, has been interviewed in "Pearson's" on the duties of a chaplain and his physical and spiritual requirements…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—Lord Roberts cabled to the War Office on Wednesday night as follows:—"At the commandant's request I…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Lord Roberts has proclaimed an immunity for all non-combatants. The privilege of returning to their farms is withheld from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a letter to Detective M'Hattie, dated Spytfontein, April 8, Sergeant Tom Donovan says:—Just a, few lines to let you know…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, April 28.—Some Austrian officers in the Transvaal, writing home, complain bitterly of their distress owing to the refusal of the Boers to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In less than 300 years we have expended the respectable sum of £1,359,000,000 in war. The war with Germany and Spain in 1702, when Marlborough fought his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.—Mr. Hay, the American Consul at Pretoria, sent two telegrams to Mr. Choate, the American Ambassador. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In regard to defraying the cost of the war (says the "Nineteenth Century"), as it is not clearly just and for every reason expedient that those who made and waged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.—Lord Roberts cabled on Thursday morning:—"General French on Monday and Tuesday was opposed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.—The Tsung-li-Yamen has reluctantly admitted 100 marines from each Power to Pekin as guards to the various…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We have welcomed back our first batch of returned soldiers—four members of the First Contingent, who have been at the lighting in the front, but escaped the Boer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.—News has been received that on Friday Kruger was at Machadodorp, about 50 miles east of the new Transvaal capital at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday Morning.—Pretoria is in a state of the wildest confusion and panic, and there has been a general collapse of Governmental…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The "Daily Mail" has hired Kipling to do some letters from South Africa. The price is not too bad, being at the rate of a pound per word. One would imagine that this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Office on 11th April issued a further revised statement of the casualties in the field force, South Africa, reported during the week ended 7th April, 1900, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday.—Many Boers are occupying positions on kopjes around Pretoria. President Kruger, telegraphing to…
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