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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 56
LONDON, Monday.—A student interpreter, writing on June 10th, declares that the Dowanger Empress's threat to massacre the foreigners was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Reports have been received stating that a patrol of Australian Bushmen encountered and severely punished a party of Boers on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Three days' butcheries of native converts have taken place in the provinces of Hu-peh and Houan (the vice-royalty of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—It, is announced that the Chinese leader, General Tzuen, has, at Hail[?]s, in Mongolia, near the Manchurian frontier,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The war in South Africa still drags its slow length along. The British are endeavouring to drive into a corner that very cunning and wary guerilla…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday, Noon.—The cavalry and mounted infantry columns commanded by Generals Ian Hamilton, French, and Hickman are forcing the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—A sensational report, has been received from China affecting the situation, and giving some faint hope that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—Prince Tuan, who claims to be Emperor, has mobilised a million soldiers. He has ordered the northern corps to expel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the end of last week the War Office issued a notice explaining the classification of the wounded. The terms "slight," "severe," and. "dangerous" have the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The vast majority of the national flags, the universal disply of which has been so pleasing a feature of recent rejoicings, says the "Globe," come from Germany, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Thursday.—Repeated and determined attacks were made by the Boers on Monday on Lieutenant-General Pole-Carew's position, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—Advices have been received from Cheefoo to the effect that Nishii, the Japanese Minister at Pekin, writing under date June…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Now that all our thoughts are centred on war, it may be well to lead off by glancing briefly at boy soldiers in battle (says a writer in "Chums"). Nothing less can be…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mrs. Hodgson, of the Dipton Post Office sent out to South Africa a parcel containing a muffler addressed "To a needy one at the front." This…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday.—Lord Roberts has ordered the wives find children of Boers at Pretoria to rejoin their husbands and relatives lighting at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—A Chinese merchant of repute, who was an eye-witness of the massacre of Europeans at Pekin, told the Shanghai…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—Russia admits that a state of war exists in East Siberia, but hopes to restrict it to that quarter. The Russian troops have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—H. F. Hall, a New Zealander, and E. Evans, of West Australia, were slightly wounded at the engagement at Bethlehem…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—Yang-yu, the Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, suspects that forged Government edicts are at the bottom of General…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—The English newspapers, in spite of the cipher cable to the American Government, are not convinced that Mr. E. H…
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