From the Seat of War. by Our Special War Correspondent, A. B. Paterson. Australians Rushed to the Front. N. S. W. and New Zealand Forces Under Fire. Fighting Near Arundel. Meeting with N. S. W. Lancers. Boer Shells Fail to Explode. Attack on a Kopje. a Boer Homestead Under Fire. Patrolling the Veldt. Activity of the Australians. Stirring Experiences. Naauwpoort, Dec. 13, 1899. the Journey to the Front
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 5
My last letter was wrtiten from Capetown, on the eve of our start for the interior. We were played to the station by a band of the local Highland Regiment, and a few residents of the town…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer War. Latest From Ladysmith. the Defeat of the Suffolks. Lord Roberts at Capetown. Britain's Unpreparedness. Defence by Mr. Balfour. Hostile Press Comments. (Copyright) the Siege of Ladysmith. Town Swarming with Spies. the Gaol Full. Dysentery and Enteric Fever
Evening News · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 5
LONDON, January 11, 3.39 p.m.—Newspaper correspondents have heliographed from Ladysmith a few details of the recent fight. The place swarms with spies and the gaol is full, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Transvaal War. Lord Roberts at Capetown. the Situation in South Africa. British Tactics Criticised. Deadlock in the Advance. Great Britain's Unpreparedness. Lord Roberts Urged to Organise a Fresh Army. Invasion of the Free State. the Boer Losses at Ladysmith. Contradictory Accounts. London, Jan. 11
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 5
Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, the new Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, has arrived at Capetown on board the steamer Dunottar Castle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wounded by the Enemy
Evening News · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 1
HEN Wounded by the "Enemy" is the title of an interesting article in the December…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 13
LONDON, January 3, 3.51 p.m.—General Sir Redvers Buller has asked Durban to provide him with 200 stretcher-bearers…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 78
General Joubert expresses the opinion that Great Britain could put 80,000 men in the field without risk to her colonies, but considers that 10,000 will shortly be laid hors de combat…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 9
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald
Trouble will probably be piled on trouble if the complaints of leading London papers about the conduct of the war are generally allowed to have weight. Yesterday morning the cable informed…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 36
A dispatch from London tO the New. York "World" of November 25 eaye: The British Cabinet had come to a decision relative to the future Boer republic[?]. Those countries are to have a…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Various War Pictures
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 83
THE CAPETOWN DOCKS, WHERE THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS LAND…
Continued on Trove, page 83 →Australasian War Brevities
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 76
The Government has decided that Major-General, French, the New South Wales Commandant, cannot be spared to go to the war. The offer of 10 trained nurses to accompany the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 14
W. T. H. (Molong), writes in reference to the long range of the Boer guns, and points out that the cause may be something the same as the out ranging of the British guns in the. Crimea by…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 45
To paraphrase a well-known poetically-expressed truth, war hath its humors no less pronounced than peace. 'Midst the crashing of shells, the whistling of bullets, and the roar of cannon, the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 15
LONDON, January 3, 4 a.n.—In consequence of the failure of the Chinese Government to comply, as had been promised, with the demands of France for the execution of the officials Responsible for…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Gallant But Useless Sortie. Eighteen British Killed, Twentythree Wounded
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 13
LONDON, January 6.—Colonel Baden-Powell reports having made a sortie from Mafeking with the armored train on December 26 (not December 24, as previously reported), with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Artists' War Fund
Evening News · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 4
LONDON, January 12.—The Queen has contributed to the Artists' War Fund for sale two works, one by her own hand, and one by the Prince Consort…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Off to the War
Nepean Times · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 3
Bombardier Colless, of the Royal Australian Artillery, bound for South Africa on the s.s. War[?]igal, writes from Portland, Victoria:—We had a good trip from Sydney to Melbourne; I enjoyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Journalism and the War
Evening News · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 1
(A French and an English journalist are each sending a correspondence to their respective papers in a telegraph office.) French Journalist (very courteously): After…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nurses for the War
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 10
NURSE THERESE EMILIE WOODWARD. In addition to the usual general hospital training Nurse Therese Emilie Woodward, daughter of Dr Woodward, 52 Victoria-street North,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Portugal and the War
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 9
LONDON, Friday. -- The Government of Portugal has decided not to permit anyone to enter the Transvaal through the Portuguese territory on the east coast of Africa…
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