The Conduct of the War
In the house of Commons last night Mr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War announced that a small Royal Commission would appointed to make a…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1902
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Latest Cables. the War. London, June 13. Further Surrenders
The surrenderers now number 11,022 Amongst them are President Steyn’s bodyguard and Du Toit’s staff. Lord [?] gives ten days’ rations and…
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The meeting, which was previously advertised in this paper, calling together all those patriotic individuals with a view of inauguating a committee to execute the…
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THE percentage of promotions among Tumut Soldiers in South Africa is considered a record. At present there are five absent in South Africa, and 26 have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cables. the War. London. June 17
The Hon. T. L. Graham, Attorney-General and Acting Premier of Cape Colony, in the course of an address at Capetown, yesterday, opposed the suspension of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cables. the War London, June 20
The Buers and the British every where are [?] cordially Burghers generally are taking the oath of allegiance but those who have surrendered under the peace terms…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers' Memorial Fund
ON Tuesday evening, at the School of Arts, there was a very good attendance of members of the committee appointed at the general meeting held recently to start a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Russian View of the German Soldier
A Russian [?] expect [?] in the “Novoe Vremya.” says that the principal qualities of the German soldier are boundless arrogance and unlimated confidence in his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. the Union Jack, and the Fallen Soldiers Monument. to the Editor of the "Queanbeyan Age."
SIR,—I am sure there is not a man, woman or child in our district who would like to see the "old banner" cease to wave over us Under that flag the poorest creation on God's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Returned from the War
TROOPER ANTHONY ROLFE, who returned with the last batch of Troopers from South, Africa is now in town, and looks, remarkably well, his sojourn among the kopjes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Kitchener’s Welcome Home
Elaborate preparations are being made to welcome Lord Kitchener on his arrival home. Fifteen thousand troops will line the route from Southampton to [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Spanish-american War Britain’s Friendship
The Washington correspondent of the “Daily Chronicle” states that before the Spanish American war Britain avowed her purpose to use…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Indulgence Passages for Returned Soldiers
HIS Excellency the Governor has received the following cable from the military an, thorities in South Africa : -- "Referring to your telegram of July 8, men who have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late War
Lord Milner’s Executive have decided to compensatic British subjects for losses during the war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Curious Incident Aboard a Man-of-war
The first thing that strikes a lands on a man-of-war is the rigid dicipline observed everywhere On some of the ships belonging to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Returned Soldiers
The members of the Australian Commonwealth Contingent have arrived. Corporal R. Lyon, who was amongst the lot, writes to us from Sydney as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unruly Soldiers
A TELEGRAM from Newcastle states that some Queensland returned soldiers, who went through to the north on Tuesday evening, were guilty of disgraceful conduct…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir J. Willcocks on the British Soldier. "An Honour to His Uniform
Reuter's representative at Southampton had an interview with Colonel Sir Raines Willcocks, who left for the front recently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Quong Tart Wounded
A brutal outrage accompanied by robbery was committed on one of Sydney's best known business men at a little before midday, Mr Quong Tart being cruelly battered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reception of Returned Soldiers at Hall
IT was a red-letter day at Hall last Saturday. The people thereabouts, not to be behind those of other districts of the State who had sent their boys to the seat of war…
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