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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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The latest news from northern Cape Colony is to the effect that the Boers made an ineffectual attempt to retrieve the severe defeat they received at the hands of the British troops…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, January 4, 3.35 p.m.—Enthusiasm in connection with the enlistment of the Yeomanry Brigade, now forming under the direction of Lord Chesham, continues unabated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Enthusiasm in connoction with the on enlistment of the Yeemanry Brigade, now forming under the direction of Lord Chesham, continues unabated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mrs. Fraser, who is on remand on a charge of wounding with intent to kill her husband, Dr. Paul Wilks Fraser, at St. Kilda, last year, waited on the Attorney-General yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lord Lovat is taking to the Caps 150 Scottish Gillies and deerstalkers from the Highlands, to be sent at once to the front. They are being picked as splendid shots…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lieutenant-Colonel Pilcher, of the Imperial Army, who was in command of the combined Queensland-Canndlan force, which drove the Boers from Sunnyside, has withdrawn from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, January 3, 3.51 p.m.—The Boers, having been reinforced, are disputing Lieutenant-General French's entry into Colesberg. General French holds all the captured…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Later reporta of the engagement at Sunnyside, in which the Canadian and Queensland troops routed the Boers, state that Privates Victor Jones and M'Lood,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, January 4, 3.35 p.m.—The Boer forces Occupied Molteno and Cyphergat. Sir William Gatacre's force dislodged them from the latter place, and the enemy fled towards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mrs. F.J. Waller, of Parramatta, through whose agency two shipments of nightingales, or bed wraps, have already been dispatched to the portion of the N.S.W. Army Medical Corps which is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, January 5, 3.57 p.m.—Major lord Edward Cecil (fourth son of the Marquis of Salisbury) of the Grenadier Guards, who is Chief of the Staff to Colonel Baden-Powell at Mafeking, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steadiness and readiness of the Queensland troops at the battle of Sunnyside add gratifyingly to the proofs we have already had of the colonial soldier's willingness and ability to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Friday.--The utmost vigilance is being displayed by the British authorities on the east coast of Africa, with a view to, where possible, checking the importation of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, December 29.—Belgian and Dutch artillerists have been imported into the Transvaal steadily in batches since April, 1896. They have been paid 10s a day, in addition to being given…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Before the war began it was a commonplace among soldiers to say that our military authorities fully realised the nature of the task before them, and that they had no sort of notion of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Premier received a cable from the Imperial authorities to-day to the following effect:--"The War Office is very anxious that no small arms other than mark II. should…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cyclists' Union have already several of their members at the sent of war, and the Wa[?]igal took away another in H. Wiseman, of the Suburbau Club, who belongs to A. Battery. R. S. Parker, another…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It seems but yestermorn I heard The soldiers marching down the street, The tramping of a thousand feet, Join'd with the pipes and drums that stirr'd…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The condition of things at the seat of war stands much as it was last week. That is to say, on the east as on the west, and in the centre, Generals Buller,…
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