War' in South Africa. London
President Kruger is greatly discouraged by the surrender of Rustenberg. The British have arrested 380 foreigners at Protoriaon suspicion of intending to raise a riot…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Rivers · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1900
347 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 14 of 18
One From the War. a Brave Veteran Interviewed
THERE lives at Hoxton Park Staff-sergeant J. Chalkley, who now carries on the trade of a market gardener. It would not nood a Sherlock Holmes to tell he had been a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"The Gram." a Social Magazine Founded By British Prisoners of War in Pretoria. Price 2s 6d. No. 1, May 6, 1900
THE above represents part of the [?] page of a prison publication, which, unknown to the authorities, and until now unknown to the public, the prisoners at Pretoria, with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Great Boer Conspiracy. a Tale of the Transvaal War. 1899-1999. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter Xxiv. "God Save the Queen."
IT is not the purpose of this story to dwell in detail upon the terrible deeds which followed the outbreak of war in South Africe. The truth of the existeuce of the conspiracy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Awful Tragedy. Three Persons Murdered. Three Others Dangerously Wounded
SUPERINTENDENT Sanderson, of Bathurst, telegraphed on Saturday morning the following information to the police department Sydney regarding a horrible atrocity…
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Colonel Little, with the 9th Lancers, opposed and defeated the Boers at Lindley under Commandant De Wet. Genenal Pole-Carew engaged the Boers at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The South African War. London
General METHURN completely defeated the Boors with heavy loss, relieving the town of Rustenberg. The British failed to dislodge a force of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The South African War. London
LORD ROBERTS reports that 16,000 Boors with five guns broke through the British cordon near Bethlehem, and the British infantry is pursuing the enemy in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. London
The Boers, after their defeat by "the British at Palmientfontein, doubled back at night and escaped. Documents have been found in Pretoria…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Coup for the War Office
IT is not often that the War Office gets credit for smartness, but, according to the London "Daily Mail," it hast at last achieved something. That paper says:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. London
The Afrikander Bond at the Cape has ejected Mr. J. X. Merriman (late Treasurer) from the leadership, and rejected Mr. J. W. Sauer (late Minister for Public Works) and Mr. De Wa[?]l,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Austrians on the Boer War
The Austrian Press is not jubilant at the result of the war, but it sheds no crocodile's tears over the fate of the Boers. It was evident from the first that the cause…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Women Who Wait. [DISTRIBUTED at the exhibition of Rudolph Blind's pictures, "Soldiers' Wives," by Messrs. S. Hildesheimer and Co., in aid of the Widows' and Orphans' Fand.]
We have sung of the sons by the sounding guns, Away on the burning veldt; We have mourned for the dead who have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa, London, Wednesday Night
Two hundred and fifty of the infantry, under Lieutenant-General Clery, repulsed a strong Boer commando near Hoidelburg (on the Transvaal-Natal railway) on Saturday, killing ten and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in South Africa. London, Friday Afternoon
Commandandant Liebeberg, on the 21st, sent a flag of truce demanding the surrender of Smith-Dorrien's force near Frederickstad, or he would attack within half an hour. Before it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Proportion of Wounded to Killed
THE famous Professor Billroth, writing a few years, ago about the next great war that should take place, was convinced that there would be an incrase in the number…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War in South Africa. London
General Hamilton reached R[?]stenberg on Sunday, relieving Buden-Powell. Lord Roberts' main army is slowly advancing eastward from Middleburg, and General Buller…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Way N.S.W. Soldier are Re ceived in England
CORPORAL E. HOPKINSON, invalided home after getting a bullet through both thi[?] writing from England to his parents, tells of the good reception he has met with in England from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in South Africa. London
Following closely on the conspiracy among foreign residents of Johannesburg, comes the sensational news of a plot having been formed at Pretoria among Boers, who have taken the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South African War. London
COMMANDANT De Wet, who is closely pursued by Lord Kitchener, has 3,500 men, including a large number of newly-perjured surrenderers and six weeks' supplies of…
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