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The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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Australian Soldiers

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 5

Affidavits showing that the Doors are treacherously shoaling the Australian soldiers have reached Lord Kitchner. Lord Kitchner has issued a prochamation…

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Our Serial Story. Violet's Victory. Love, War and Strategy. Chapter Vii. (Continued.)

The Wellington Times · Monday 2 September 1901 · page 4

Horace Battersby was startled at this apparent answer to his beast, and he was sufficiently superstitions for a shadow of alarm to pass across his face. On Violet,…

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The War

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 3

Particulars of the derailing of a train on the Pietersbarg line state that the train was derailed in a deep catting. The Boers fired on the British at close…

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The War. Capture at Losberg

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 4

Colonel Garratt's column, which surprised a Boer laager at Losberg, comprised Quseneland and New Zealand mounted infantry…

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The War. Kruger's Last Hope. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 3

EX-PRESIDENT KRUGER still clings to his expressed conviction that the occasion of the Czar's approaching visit to Western Europe may be utilised for the furtherance of the Boer…

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Robbery Under Arms. the White Cliffs Mail Stuck Up. One Passenger Wounded. (By Telegraph.) Broken Hill, September 3

The Western Herald · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 2

Great excitement was caused in Broken Hill on Monday morning on the receipt of a telegram by Sub-Inspector Travers, detailing a sensational case of highway robbery…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. Returning Soldiers. Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 3

THE steamer Herbert Castle, due on the 15th inst., brings most of the members of the A Battery of the Royal Australian Artillery…

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Returning Soldiers. Sydney, Tuesday

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 3

The troopship Harlech Castle, with a large number of men from South Africa for Sydney, arrived at Perth yesterday,…

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Our Serial Story. Violet's Victory. Love, War, and Strategy. Chapter Viii

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 September 1901 · page 8

Of late Battersby had laid himself out, with a skill and determination worthy of a better cause, to acquire an influence over Harvey, and in this endeavour he had been…

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When our Soldier Boys come home again

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 September 1901 · page 3

Sons of Austral! Saxon, Celt, To South Afric's treeless veldt England's bugles call her southern sons away, From the city, town and bush,…

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A War of Endurance

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 4

A cables has it that Lord Kitchener says:—"The end of the war is not near, but great progress is being made." He says "it will will a matter…

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The War

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 5

Commandant Scheeper, finding the Dutch colonists not responsive to his appeals and the country well garrisoned, has turned northwards…

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The War. the Derailed Train

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 6

Later particulars of the derailment of a train on the Pietereburg line show that the Boers continued firing after resistance ceased, though they were…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. Later War News. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 5

A native pointsman derailed an armoured train at Tamago, and three soldiers were killed and several wounded. Lord Kitchener has allowed a number of…

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The War. De Wet's Intention. Loneon

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 5

Persistent reports are being circulated that Do Wet and Myburg, with other Boer leaders, threatened to shoot all the Dutch colonists captured after the fifteenth…

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Our Serial Story. Violet's Victory. Love, War, and Strategy. Chapter X.

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 September 1901 · page 4

The discovery which Battersby made, and which eventually fitted in with his plans, came about in this way. The report had quickly spread that Scaw Cross, after being…

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The War

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 3

Commandants Delange and Vilgoen have received the proclamation from Lord Kitcheners' envoy, whom they treated well…

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The War. Convoy Captured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 4

Colonel Remington captured a Boer convoy in the Senekal district, taking 22 prisoners, 110 waggons, and 3000 cattle…

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The War. Letter's Commando Captured. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 3

COLONEL. H. J. SCOBELL, of Brabant'a Horses, operating in the Cape Midlands, has captured the mixed commando of Beers raiders and rebels under Commandant Letter, consisting of…

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Victorian Soldiers. Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 4

A return shows the total number of men sent to South Africa from- Victoria to be 2681; of these 195 were killed or died of wounds, and 1096 are still in…

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