Sketcher. Wells and Water in Time of War
AGAIN and again the struggle in South Africa has illustrated the importance of water in time of war…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
992 stories in Riverina's papers · page 22 of 50
The £ S. D. of a First-class Man-of-war. Cassells Saturday Journal
However costly it may be to keep the machinery of the national government running, it is a startling fact that to run a first-class battleship for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War in South Africa. Clearing the Country. Piet De Wet Guiding the British. London, May 15
Mr. Pict Do Wet, who has in vain tried to persuade his brother, General Christian De Wet, to, abandon hostilities, has now cast in his lot with the British, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Cables. Old World Doings. the Boer War. London
Ninety Boers, including Commandants Brand, Vorater and Heystek, the [?] Landdrost of Picteraburg, have surroundered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cable News. the Boer War. the Bushveldt Campaign. Daily Capitualations. London
Ninely Boers, including Commandant Barand Vorster and Heystick, the ex-Landdrost of Pictersburg, have surrendered. The correspondent of the "Times" at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in South Africa. Sir Alfred Milner an Audience of the King. London. May 18
Sir Alfred Milner, the Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, who left Cape Town on the 7th inst. by the Union Castle mail liner Saxon, is expected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War
The Marquis of Tullibardine, D.S.O., officer commanding the Scottish Horse, writing from Middleburg to the Royal Caledonian Society, London, states…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. the Boer War. London
Addressing the Boers on the 17th instant Botha declaimed that the British were at war with Russia, that the plague was destroying many British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War News. London, May 21
Twenty-two Boers intercepted Privates Warburton and Brownell, two Tasmanian Bushmen, at Gannahock. The Tasmanians took shelter behind some stones, and did…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in South Africa. Another Combined Movement. Many Encounters. London, May 21
Lord Kitchener has organised a second combined movement for the purpose of clearing the eastern districts of the Transvaal south of the Delagoa Bay railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cable News. the Boer War. Fighting in the Transvaal. a Commandant Prisoner. London, Monday Afternoon
The latest reports state that Commandant De la Rey, with 500 followers, a 15-pounder, a pom pom, and a Maxim, is in the Kleraksdrop district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Maid Soldier. Kills His Children
Quartermaster-Sergeant Butler, of the Army Service Corps, stationed at Woolsich, upon being ordered to South Africa, killed five of his children and wounded a sixth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War
Two hundred and fifty homeless children who accompanied the Boer prisoners to Ceylon are attending the Dutch schools there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Binoculars in War
We fancy it is not generally known that in the Chino-Japanese War all the Japanese soldiers were supplied with binocular glasses. That, however, is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Trophies That the Victors Secure. Sham Relics Art Plentiful Just Now
There is no country in the world richer in mementoes of the battlefield than England. Besides those in the United Service Museum, thousands are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Binoculars in War
We fancy it is not generally known that in the Chino-Japanese War all the Japanese soldiers were supplied with binocular glasses. That, however, is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War News. South African Affairs
Heavy fighting has taken place in the Eastern Transvaal. Botha had made his headquarters at Ehinelo, but evacuated it on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News. London, May 23
A block-house opened fire on 40 Boers who were attempting to cross the railway line westward of Pan, near Middleburg, creating a panic among them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Trophies That the Victory Secures. When Relics Are Plentiful Just Now
There is no country in the world richer in mementoes of the battlefield than England. Besides those in the United Service Museum, thousands are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cable News. the Boer War. Colonel Scobell in Pursuit of Raiders. London
An effective pursuit of Malan's commando, which has been raiding for some time in the Cape Colony, is still being maintained by Colonel H. J. Scobell, of the Royal Scots…
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