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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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Latest War Cables

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 2

London, Thursday—The Imperial Parliament meets on the 30th inst. There is a growing outery against the army's unpreparedness, and the present deadlock in South…

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Latest War Cables

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 2

London, Thursday—The Imperial Parliament meets on the 30th inst. There is a growing outcry against the army's unpreparedness, and the present deadlock in South…

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The Latest War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 2

The Imperial Parliament meets on the 30th inst. There is a growing outcry against the army's unpreparedness arid the present…

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War News. London, January 9

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 2

Messages received from newspaper correspondents on Tuesday slate that do anxiety was felt as to the ability of Ladysmith to holdout. The Boers have run electric alarm wires across the roads near…

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The Transvaal War. The Ladysmith Victory

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 3

The attack on Ladysmith by the Boers was part of a carefully-planned scheme. Commandant-General Joubert summoned a great council of his generals and foreign…

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The Transvaal War. The Ladysmith Victory

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 3

The attack on Ladysmith by the Boors was part of a carefully-planned scheme. Commandant-General Joubert summoned a great council of his generals and foreign…

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Watching the War

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 2

THIS war is the lion in the mental path of the people. It has put cricket in the shade,politics…

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Some Humors of War

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 4

If peace bath her homors, so too has war ; and, though fighting more often than not is very heavy work, it is not without its lighter side to relieve the grim business which is the…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 2

It is officially reported that at the battle of Ladysmith 15 officers were killed, [?] Colonel W. H. Dick-Cunningham, of the Gordon Highlanders, the Earl of [?]…

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War News. London, January 12

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 3

AT Stormberg last month the guide who led the British up to the Boer lines pointed to the position, saying --"There is your enemy," and…

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Latest War News. Movements of the British Troops. Good Work by the New Zealanders. Colonials Ability Admired. Capture of the first Post in The Enemy's Country. SYDNEY, Tuesday morning

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 3

GENERAL WARREN left Frere on Saturday in an easterly direction with a strong column intending to attack the Beers at Inlahwe Hill…

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About the War

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 3

Mr Nicholson went down to camp on Monday night to try and get into the Bush Brigade. Among the men passed for the second…

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About the War

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 3

Mr Nicholson went down to camp on Monday night to try and get into the Bush Brigade. Among the men passed for the second…

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Latest War Cables

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 2

London, Monday.—General Warren left Frere on Saturday in an easterly direction with a strong column to attack the Boers at Inhawe Hill…

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Latest War Cables

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 2

London, Monday.—General Warren left Frere on Saturday in an easterly direction with a strong column to attack the Boers at Inhawe Hill…

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War News. London, January 12

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 2

General Sir Redvers Buller on Thursday advanced from Springfield. occupied the south bank of the Tugela River at Potgieter's Drift, and seized the bridge. Owing to recent rains the river is in…

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The Transvaal War. Gatacre's Trap

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 2

Further particulars have been received concerning the disaster suffered by Major-General Sir William Gatacre's troops, near Stormberg Junction, in northern Cape…

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The Transvaal War. Gatacre's Trap

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 2

Further particulars have been received concerning the disaster suffered by Major-General Sir William Gatacre's troops, near Stormberg Junction, in northern Cape…

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The War. to the Editor of the Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 2

SIR,—The British Government and War Office, as well as British Generals, have been subjected to severe and unmerited criticism because of the alleged slow progress of the…

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The War. to the Editor of the Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 2

SIR,—The British Government and War Office, as well as British Generals, have been subjected to severe and unmerited criticism because of the alleged slow progress of the…

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