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The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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The War. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1900 · page 2

The Boers on Sunday's River, northwest of Elandslaagte, under General Louis Botha, the Commander-in-Chief, have tried to isolate Lientenant-General…

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The War. Tuesday's News. a Boer Conference

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1900 · page 3

Kruger has attended a conference of Commandants at Brandfort. THE BOER PLANS. It is reported that the Transvaalers…

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The Great Boer Conspiracy. a Tale of the Transvaal War 1899-1900. [All. Rights Reserved.] Chapter Xxiii the Cannon's Opening Roar

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1900 · page 2

Probably there was hardly a man among the representatives at the Bloemfontein Conference but guessed, if he did not really know, that the outcome of that Conference…

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The War

The Wellington Times · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 4

Lieutenant-General Gatacre is returning to England. It is said that other changes are imminent. Lord Kitchener commands fifteen thousand troops who guard the railway from Bloomfontein to…

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After the War

The Wellington Times · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 3

Thus Mr. O. de Satge, in the columns of an English journal, on the subject of a quid pro quo for Australia:—"England is now engaged in a war a Fourtrance with the forces…

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The Wounded

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 6

IT seems that there is no scarcity of military nurses; indeed, every steamer from England is taking out volunteer nurses, who are being refused…

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War Mems

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 2

All nations (says a Glasgow man at the front) are represented in the enemy's ranks—Americans, English, Scotch, Irish, Swedes, German, &c…

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Theatre of War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 4

TO-NIGHT (Thursday, 19th), we are promised a treat in the shape of the Boer War fought over again the Masonic Halt all the principal battles fought in South Africa, caught by snapshots…

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At the War Office

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 8

PENSION CLERK: 'But if yon were not in the war, on what do you base your application for a pension ?" Applicant: 'I ruined my eyes reading…

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The Horrors of War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 3

THE London correspondent of the "Herald" writes.--This afternoon I met a young officer of the Seaforth Highlanders invalided home, whose simple narrative of his personal…

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The War. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 5

Lord Roberts, in rumonstrance with President Kruger, as to the harsh areatment of prisoners, complains that they have been forced to bivouac on the open veldt…

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The Boer War Sydney

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 2

Generals Buller's Warren's and Roberts' dispatches in regard to the abandonment of Spion Kop have been gazetted. Lord Roberts severely…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. Latest War News. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 5

A large number of diamonds and documents were saved during the siege of Kimberley. American pro-Boers sent a messenger with a message on behalf of 22,000 children…

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The Army Bandsman in Peace and War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 7

WHEN troops are sent out on active service, as in the present Transvaal War, the question is often put: What becomes of the bandsmen attached to the various…

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War

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 1

London, Monday. The seige of Wepener continues. During the four days' fighting the British lost eighteen killed and 132…

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Latest War

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2

London, Thursday. The lack of railway trucks is delaying the arrival of Lord Roberts supplies at Bloemfontein…

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WAR London

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 4

Thousands of Beers with eight guns, two pom poms and two Maxims, surrounded Colonel Dalgetty's force at Wepener…

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The Mayor of Bourke Off to the War

The Western Herald · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon. Dr. F. W. Kane, Mayor of Buorke, who some time ago applied to be appointed to the Medical Army Corps attached to the Australian…

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The War London

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 April 1900 · page 3

Major-General H. Borrett Inspector-General of Auxiliary Forces and Recruiting reports that in 1899 83,353 recruits volunteered for the regular and the militia…

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The War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 3

The New Zealand troopers, Finlay, Hudson, Saunderson, and Cassidy, who were recently wounded, have now recovered. The officers and man delegated by Lord…

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