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The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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Domestic Troubles. His Wife Declares War

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 6 August 1901 · page 1

The man was sitting on the front steps of his house at three o’clock in the morning, as the policeman came by and noticed him…

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Welcome to Returned Soldiers. Conversazione and Smoke Concert. Presentation of Medals. A Great Gathering

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 7 August 1901 · page 11

The conversazione and smoke concert promoted by the citizens of Nowra and of the Sboalhaven district generally in honor of the half-a-dozen recently returned soldiers…

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Dehate on the War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 4

THERE was [?]tormy debate in the Commons on the six millions War Loan , Bill which led to many [?]“scenes,” and to much heated language The…

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The War in South Africa

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 12

Mr. W.H. Sinclair, a one-time resident of Milton, where he was connected with the Times for a number of years, but who has been on service all through the South…

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The Federal Commandant. War Office Mysterious Silence

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1901 · page 4

THE Imperial War Office is causing the Federal Government much embarrass. went by its unaccountable delay in securing definite re[?] from the…

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The Boer War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 20 September 1901 · page 2

LAST Sunday was a notable day in the history of the Boer war, for it was the day fixed by Lord Kitchener’s proclamation for surrender of the…

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The South African War

Moruya Examiner · Friday 20 September 1901 · page 2

WHAT may be termed a crisis in connection with this war would occur on Sunday, last, the 15th ins’ after which date would coma into force the solemn warning issued…

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Wedded by Fate. Chapter XX (Continued). Flight From War and Pestilence

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 October 1901 · page 3

Mrs Rochester saw danger ahead in all this attention, and the evident pleasure with which Sadie received it, and ' she was very much troubled on account of it,…

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A Queensland Soldier

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 2 October 1901 · page 2

Nowra was visited last week by Trooper E. W, Webb-Bowen, Who want to South Africa with the First Queenslanders and saw much active service, returning home…

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A Queensland Soldiers

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 3 October 1901 · page 2

Nowra was visited last week by Tropper E. W. ebb Bowen, who went to South Africa with the First Queenslanders and [?] much active service, retorning home…

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WireSess Telegraphy in War

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 October 1901 · page 8

Wireless telegraphy in war has been heavily discounted by the experiences gathered during the recent British naval manoeuvres. This represented a conflict…

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British Casualties, the Total Fop the War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 October 1901 · page 2

A RETURN has been issued by the War Office giving the casualties sustained by the British in South Africa since the outbreak of the war…

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The Heroines of War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 October 1901 · page 4

MR. A. G. HALES, the war correspondent, pleads in this week’s issue of the “Week-End” for a national memorial of the services the noises have rendered…

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The Money Spent on the War

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 22 October 1901 · page 2

Up to the end of March Great Britain spent on the Boer war, roughly, the sum of £114,000,000 A writer in the “Home Magazine” has been mating a calculation…

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The Boer War. General Buller’s Advice to Sir G. WHITE

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 October 1901 · page 4

THE admission made by General Sir Redvers Buller at the Westminster Volunteers’ launches on Thursday, that he suggested to Sir George White during the…

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Those Returned Soldiers to the Editor of the K.v Times

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 29 October 1901 · page 2

Sir,—I notice that as usual you are the first to extend a hearty greeting to our Valley boys on their safe return from the front…

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The Boes War

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 2

PARTICULARS to hand relating to the battle of Biakenlasgte disclose the fact that it was one of the most desperate encounters since the earlier days…

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A Few War Figures

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 12 November 1901 · page 2

In less than three hundred years we have expended the respectable sum of £1,359,000,000 in war. The war with Germany and Spain in 1702, when…

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The Man Behind the Boulder. (An American view of the Trans[?]al War)

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 12 November 1901 · page 2

Britain’s heart is sad to-day O’er her army’s brief reverses Bloodies still must be the fray Ele the cloud of [?]…

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Lord Robert Hopeful. Every Effort Being Made to End the War

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 November 1901 · page 4

LORD ROBERTS, in addressing soldiers and volunteers to whom ho distributed war medals said he fervently wished the war was now over, and that we…

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