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The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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Here and There. Prisoners of War

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 7 February 1900 · page 1

Two Shoalhaven natives—Sergeant Peter M‘Donald and Trooper Arthur Daley —are among the prisoners of war at Pretoria…

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Irish Feeling About the War

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 8 February 1900 · page 4

A ‘Herald’ correspondent writes from London:—The latest scare with which the sensation-mongera have provided as is one of a Fenia[?] invasion of…

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Here and There Prisoners of War

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 8 February 1900 · page 1

Two Shoalhaven natives—Sergeant Peter M’Donald and Trooper Arthur Daley—are among the prisoners of war at Pretoria…

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The Week's War

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 3

DURING the debate in the Commons, Mr. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, delivered a powerful and re-assuring speech, in the course of…

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The War, Thursday 1

Moruya Examiner · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 2

Colonel A. M. Thorne[?] Royal Scots Fusiliers ordered the retirement, from: Kop. General Buller acquits Colonel Thorneycroft…

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The Transvaal War. (By Telegraph.) London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 2

It is stated at Durban that General Buller column has crossed the Tugela and is moving in the direction of Acton Holmes or east of Pogietrs…

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Cardinal [?] augham on the War Circular Letter to the Roman Catholic Clergy

Moruya Examiner · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 2

By the English mail to hand has been received a copy of a circular letter issued by Cardinal Va[?] to the [?] Catholic clergy of: England on the subject of the war…

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The War. Saturday, 9 a.m

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 10 February 1900 · page 8

A Hanoverian officer directs 10,000 trained European Soldiers and three hundred officers, assisting the Boers. Colonel Baden-Powell reports having…

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Britain’s War Factory

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 13 February 1900 · page 2

Woolwiegh Are seals (says the Times of India) a busy placed always (although it is said that a few months ago a forecasting ottical of this gigantic arm factory…

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A Million “War Cries.”

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1900 · page 3

The “War Cry” was born in the last week of December twenty years ago. The General, Chief of the Staff, and Mr. William Stephenson Crow, printer, and…

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The Transvaal War. (By Telegraph.) London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1900 · page 2

Genera! Buller crossed the Tugela on Monday, and is now advancing towards Ladysmith. The cannonade at the drift where hi crossed was the fiercest of the…

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War Items

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 2

Sir Redvers Duller has retired from the north bank of the Tugela River. He did not press the advance from the position which he took up after the…

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A War Letter

Moruya Examiner · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 2

This is not so bad,—We have been sorly [?] since coming to this terrible place ’ writes an Australian private front the sent of war ‘ but in the midst of…

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The War Sydney 10

Moruya Examiner · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 2

L[?] from Compile Baden Powell suite that he has forty [?] prisoners at Mafeking among them shoeing James Quinlan late [?] at Mafeking changed with…

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Mr. Barton on the War

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 1

Thus Mr. Barton,. before leaving Sydney for England : “The war was to prove that the aggrieved were entitled to justice and redress. (Applause)…

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Mr. Barton on the War

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 1

Thus Mr. Barton, before leaving Sydney for England : “The war was to prove that the aggrieved were entitled to justice and redress. (Applause),…

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A Bishop on the War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 4

THE following, forming part of an Advent pastoral let tor from Bishop Tamer, was read in the Roman Catholic church tho diocese of Damfrice and Gabo…

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The Transvaal War. London

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

Fifty rf the N.S.W. Mounted Rifles [?] the [?] in clearing the enemy[?] Su[?] enabling a l[?]ge convoy to [?] A troop of…

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Some Compensation for the Calamity of War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 4

THE “Pull M[?] Gazette” publishes the following [?]:— “Sir,— The following appear to me to come under the above description:—…

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Latest War News. Engagement Near Colesberg London

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

SEVERE fighting has taken place in the neighbourhood of Colesberg, where the Boers outnumbered the British by 5 to 1. Tho enemy moubted a forty-pounder at…

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