Latest War Cables. General Joubert Killed
London, Thursday.—A telegram to the "Natal Times," received via Delagoa Bay, states that General Joubert was killed in the action near Ladysmith on the 9th instant…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1899
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Boer War Notes
AT the time of writing this there is an ominous hush in the Transvaal strife. General Buller with his staff is busy landing and forwarding his…
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A NATIVE missionary now at Estcourt declares that the Ladysmith volunteers on the 10th drew, the enemy into the open, and the regulars then by a flank movement…
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The Boers made an attack on the Ottoskopje Miner near Kimberley, but were repulsed with great loss. The column which is marching to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News. (Per Press Telegram Association.) Big Battle on 9th November. British Victorious. The Terrifying Lyddite Shells. Boer Gunners Driven to Their Gans at Point of Revolver. Another Big Engagement on 14th. British Again Victorious. N.S.W. Lancers at Naaupoort. 27,000 Additional Troops Arrived at Capetown. British Prisoners at Pretoria. Inferior Meat and Scurvy
AT the battle on the 9th instant the Boers, covered by heavy shells, occupied all the ridges on a kopje adjacent to the British…
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London, Monday.—Particulars regarding the seige of Ladysmith show that on the 9th instant the Boers were repulsed on all sides with a loss of about 800 men. The British…
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Recent advices from the seat of war state that a number of Natal Dutch assisted the Boers to loot Pomeroy, east of Ladysmith, it when the town fell into the hands of the…
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A native missionary now at Estcourt declares that the Ladysmith volunteers on the 10th instant drew the enemy into the open, and that the regulars then by a flank movement delivered a crushing…
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A detailed account of the battle on the 9th inst, states that the Boers around Lady-smith, covered by a heavy fire of shells, occupied all the ridges of the kopie adiacent…
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THE Boers are occupying their time in plundering and looting the home-steads of the loyalists at Natal. Supplementary reports from the…
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Ladysmith reports that ammunition is plentiful. The Boer trenches have been transformed into quagmires, owing to the heavy rains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest far News. Combined British Movement at Natal. Another Army Division Moholising at Aldershot. British Advance on Belmont. General French Threatens Colesburg. Boers Pillaging for Provisions. Unsuccessful Boer Attempt to Shell Mooi River Camp. Cape Dutch Joining the Boers. Boer Positions Captured at Kimberley. An Australian Donates £10,000 to the War Relief Fund. Boers to Rush Natives Resisting the Boers at Barcley East. Colesburg Residents Arrested for Treason. 10,000 Men to the Relief of Kimberley. Mafeking Safe, but Fever-stricken. French Press Scurrilously Attack Queen Victoria. Lord Salisbury Suffering from Influenza. SYDNEY
An important combined attack on Natal is imminent. A sixth army division is mobilising at Aldershot…
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London, Thursday.—An important combined British movement is imminent in the Natal Sixth Army Division, who are mobilising at Aldershot…
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A force of the enemy, numbering 700, swept down upon several settlements south of the British position at Estcourt, where a garrison of 10,000 is under the command of…
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An important combined British movement is imminent in Natal. A sixth army division is mobilising at Aldershot…
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Major-General Sir Cornelius F. Clery, K.C.B., Commandant of the Second Division of the British Army Corps, has been appointed to the command of the column merching to the relief of Ladysmith…
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Appended is the text of General White's dispatch to the War Office immediately after the disaster at Ladysmith on October 30: "I have to report a disaster to the column sent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Flat Miner. Saturday, November 25, 1899. the War in South Africa
IT is evident that the greatest feeling of uneasiness, if not alarm, is apparent in the ranks of the Transvaal forces, judging from the cables received of events lately…
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PROVIDED that no serious blunder is made, it is evident that we are not far from the beginning of the end with the campaign in South Africa. The time of the Transvaals…
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LIETUTENANT-GENERAL LORD METHUEN on Thursday attacked the Boers at Belmont. The British forces stormed three ridges in succession, the last prepared with…
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