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The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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The Week's War

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 3

WITH a view to re-opening communication with the Orange Free State by means of Botha's Drift, a force of 1000 Boers made a determined attack…

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The Week's War

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 4

ADDITIONAL particulars relating to the battle of Sunnyside, on New Year's Day, show that it was a very decided triumph far loyal colonial arms. The…

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The War. Sydney

Moruya Examiner · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 2

An armoured train sortie was made from [?]on Boxing with a view to pushing back the Boer cordon Northward the enemy prepared and: doubled their forces…

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The Transvaal War. [By Telegraph.] London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 2

The Boers bombarded Kurnman on Monday, and the garrison and police, numbering 120, including 12 officers, surrendered, Fifteen British [?]…

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War Items

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 2

The success of Sir G. S. White in repulsing the Boors in their attacks on Ladysmith has significantly strengthened the Paris and Berlin Bourses…

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The Transvaal War

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 2

FIELD-MARSHALL Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in South Africa, and his Chief of Staff, Lord Kitchener, have arrived at Capetown by the…

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The War. Saturday, 9 a.m

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 6

The New South Wales Lancers at Rens berg under Major Lee were sent to prevent the Boers looting and wrecking the commis[?]riat train. The were exposed to a heavy…

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Late War News. Friday, 9 a.m

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 5

The Imperial Parliament is Summoned to meet on the 13th instant. There is a growing outcry in Great Britain against the army's unpreparedness…

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The Transvaal War. (By Telegraph.) London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 2

The Imperial Parliament meets on the 30th inst. There is a growing outery in England against the army’s unpreparedness and the…

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War Items

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 3

Advices from Ladysmith go to show that the defenders still have a plentiful supply of bread and meat of good quality…

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The Week's War

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 4

THE Times declares that the British public will insist upon knowing what has happened, and how and why seven thousand British casualties have…

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The Week's War

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 3

GENERAL WARREN left Frere on Saturday in an easterly direction with a strong column to attack the Boers at Inlahwe Hill. The New Zealanders…

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The War. Sydney

Moruya Examiner · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 2

The London “Daily Mail” correspondent at Ladysmith states that the British losses at the battle last Saturday is estimated at 14 officers killed and 34 wounded and 800 men…

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The Transvaal War. (By Telegraph.) London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 2

Central Warren [?] Frere on Saturday in an easterly direction with a strong column to attack the Boers at Iolahwe Hill…

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War Items

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 3

Particulars which have been received of the recent British movements in the neighbourhood, of the Tugela show that Sir Redvers Buller him made successful…

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The Transvaal War

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 2

LATEST reports from South; Africa are to “the effect that Colonel Lord Dundonald commanding a considerable body of cavalry and mounted infantry, made a dashing forward…

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The War. Saturday, 9 a.m

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 6

The British losses at Ladysmith were 48 officers and eight hundred men killed and wounded. The Boer casualties were two thousand five hundred. All the available…

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A Letter from the land of War

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 2

MR. JOHN PESTELL, of Meroo Meadow, has received the following letter from his son. Trooper Postal, one of the Berry Lancers in South Africa dated Orange River Station,…

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Late War News. Friday, 8,50 a.m

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 5

Particulars of Buller's movements on 10th inst.—General Dundonald by a dashing movement occupied the hill above Potgieter's Drift, completely surprising the…

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The Transvaal War. (By Telegraph.) London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 2

Particulars are to land of General [?] movements on the [?] General [?] movement [?]…

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