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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 56
LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.—Details of the battle of Eerstefabrieken show that the British forces were led with splendid generalship. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The Viceroy has suppressed the Szeechuan insurrection. Admiral Kempff cables that Tientsin is being bombarded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Lord Roberts stopped a cheque for £40,000 drawn for the Banque Francise de l'Afrique du Sud, on the National Bunk of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—In reply to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. St. John Brodrick, Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office, said…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The steamer Australasian, from Capetown, arrived in Hobson's Bay this morning, from South Africa, bringing back 23 invalided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—The Boers recently captured a train on the Zand River conveying 2000 bags of letters for the troops, and £1000 worth of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—During the bombardment of Tientsin the Chinese artillery was so well worked that the Russian and American guns were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—It is stated that the Russian reserves in Siberia and in the Amur military districts are to be placed on a war footing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—General Buller occupied Standerton, on the Transvaal- Natal railway, 61 miles north-west of Volksrust, on Friday and seized 18…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—A telegram to the London "Daily Express" states that Chinese runners reported at Tientsin on Thursday that a small…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Probably the youngest mounted soldier in the world, and certainly the youngest in Australia, is Roy certainly Welch. Born at Maitland juts seven years ago, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Queen once more recently demonstrated the kindly interest she takes in wounded soldiers by travelling from Windsor to Southampton in order…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Wednesday.— General Rundle, with his rearguard near Senekal, repulsed a daring attack by the enemy. He chased the Boers from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.— Rear-Admiral Bruce, second in command of time British squadron, cables that he was not aware that international force of 2300…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The war in South Africa still remains unfinished. It is evident that the end will come only with the complete exhaustion of the people who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. Botha, the Afrikander member for Aliwal. has been arrested on a charge of treason…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Admiral Seymour's latest message heliographed stated that he was surrounded, that 62 of his force had been killed, and 200…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—It is officially stated from Capetown that no troops are to be withdrawn until the end of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Australasian, with the New South Wales invalided soldiers on board, reached the wharf at 7 o'clock this morning. The men were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In their last circular Messrs Arkell and Dauglas, of New York, say; "We still quote norminally 22s 6d and 10 per cent by steam Sydney and Melbourne with an addition charge of 5s a ton for shipments…
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