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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1899

212 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 11

Preparing for War

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 August 1899 · page 2

The Portuguese authorities at Delagoa Bay have preven[?]ed the landing of monitions of war (which included 15,000 Maoser rifles) brought by the steamer Richstag…

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Spray. War About a Kiss

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 2

That kissing should go by favour on the stage as elsewhere is evidently the opinion of Mme. Lenthold, a Vienna actress. Our correspondent writes:—…

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War Inevitable

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 6 September 1899 · page 2

London, Monday.—The immense sensation at Johannesburg warranted the issue for the arrest of a hundred of the leaders of Uitlanders. A generel panic commenced, people…

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War Inevitable. London

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1899 · page 2

The Cabinet resolved to issue an ultimatum to the Transvaal demanding an unconditional acceptance of Sir Alfred Milner’s terms, also an acknowledgement of British…

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The Cost of War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 4

The Washington Bureau of Ordnance recently issued some interesting statistics of the details of the cost of annihilating the Spanish Navy. Admiral Dewey (says the…

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Preparing for War

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 20 September 1899 · page 2

London, Monday.—President Seiyn, of the Orange Free state, has told the Leader of the Africkander Bund that it was now too late to prevent war…

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38,000 Troops for the War

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1899 · page 2

With the departure from England during the last few days of four battalions of infantry three regiments of cavalry and additional [?] and the Army Service Corps from India of…

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The Transvaal War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 October 1899 · page 2

A well-known Johannesburg medical man writing to a friend in Sydney a few days ago, says in the event of the breaking out of hostilities it will not be a mere handful of men such as they met at…

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The Boer War

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 4 October 1899 · page 3

On Monday we received the following telegram. Sydney, Monday.—An outbreak of war is expected in the Transvaal any minute. The…

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The Transvaal. War Imminent

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 2

The Boers are looting on the Bechuanaland border, and are also molesting the Chinese and the blacks at Johannesburg, hoping thereby to force the hands of Great…

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The War Cloud

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 3

The "Daily Telegraph" says that the troops of the First Army Corps at Aldershot have been ordered to mobilise. The Trenavaal Government has seized…

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A Relic of the War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 2

Many old soldiers now feel the effects of the hard service they endured daring the war. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson, of Rossville, York county, Penn., who saw the hardest kind of service at the…

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A Relic of the War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 October 1899 · page 2

Many old soldiers now feel the effects of the hard service they endured during the war. Mr. Geo, S. Anderson, of Rossville, York county, Penn., who saw the hardest kind of service at the…

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War Map of South Africa

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 2

We have been forwarded from the publisher a map showing all the principal divisions, strategical points, railway routes, rivers, etc. also ground plans of Pretoria,…

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Latest Intelligence Sydney, Thursday. War Declared

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 2

A cable bas been received, by Admiral Pearson, stating that war with the Transvaal will be in existence from to-day The Church Militant…

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The War Cloud

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 3

A Reuters a telegram from Pretoria states that the Boer Executive has just despatched an ultimatum to the British Government. The terms of the ultimatum have not yet…

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The Boer War

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 5

The following interesting news from the seat of war is extracted from a letter to his father from a former Australian who is now on the Rand:—…

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Correspondence. Under this heading we invite discussion on [?] current topics of general interest to the District. At the same time it must be distinctly understood that we do not hold ourselves in any way responsible for opinions expressed the Dingo War. to the Editor of the Queanbeyan Age

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 5

SIR,—From the apathy shown we are led to believe that some of the members of our Stock and Pasture Board are not aware of the damage done by wild dogs to the flocks…

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Red. Eyed War. [?]

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 2

NOTWITHSTANDIN the cablegrammie calisthenics in the metropolitan press to precipitate the South African…

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The Transvaa[?] War

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 2

Latest news from South Africa confirms the report that a train has been destroyed between Mafeking and [?]ryburg by the Boers. The train destroyed was one carrying guns…

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