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Riverina · The wars & local soldiers
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Statesmen and warriors in these days are nervously anxious about, the doings of the printing press. Every government needs to have…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The present state of the Boer war is somewhat peculiar. In six months there have been two sudden transmogrifications, of which this second one brings things…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Jourbert, the Boer commander-in-chief, died unexpectedly from an internal complaint on Tuesday night. Sir George White, a few hours earlier,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A strong column of Imperial Yeomanry has been sent to Griquatown, west of Kimberley. The column will proceed to the relief…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts will not commence the march on Kroonstadt for some days The Boers are concentrating at Brandford, and are also strongly entrenched…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Australians participated in the engagement at Karree. The kopjes afforded the enemy good vantage, and a severe fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENERAL FRENCH defeated a body of tribesmen, west of Kimberley, killing six hundred, wounding a thousand and capturing six hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a letter to her mother, Mrs Trean of Wagga, Tropper Graham Yeatt a member of the New South Wales Bushmen's Contingent, writing from Orange River, states…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is not expected in Berlin that the lowering of the German [?]ag in Bendigo will lead to unpleasantness. British flags were similarly treated recently at Hanover and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Reuter's despatch from South Africa reports that the annoying B[?] re[?] at the [?] Boer a[?]cade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LORD Roberts reports that a signal defeat has been inflicted upon the enemy. The Boers were known to be in strength at Brandfort, 22miles north of Glen, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, has cabled a report to the War Office from Ho[?] that on Friday, [?]th March, owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Portuguese troops are guarding the Barolsi border, as a precaution to exclude retreating Boers. Her Majesty the Queen has sent a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts has sent the following despatch to the War Office :—"On Friday, owing to tho enemy's activity in the immediate front, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boers, who were in ambush, numbered 8,000, and opened fire when the convoy of waggons and guns entered the drift, and the drivers and horses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General French defeated a body of tribesmen west of Kimberley, killing six hundred and wounding about a thousand, besides capturing six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WRITING from Kimberley to his sister in Cootamundra, Sid. Barnes, now promoted to the rank of SergeantMajor, says, "under date of February…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A later despatch from Lord Roberts published by the War Office mentions that a report has been brought into Bloemfontein that the Boers had retired…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The whole of the baggage was lost, and the cusualties amounted to 350. Of these 150 men are known to have been either killed or wounded by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further details are arriving regarding the recent ambush at Koorn Spruit. Lord Roberts attributes the delay in furnishing particulars to wire…
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