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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
6,707 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250
A cable dated London, January 1, states that the great delay which has arisen in the delivery of the transport equipments of the First Army Corps now in South Africa is hampering the mobility of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A distinguished member of the Upper House, who wishes to romain anonymous, has expressed himself as follows regarding the war to a correspondent (says the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Boers have notified their intention to refuse to recognise as prisoners of war former residents of the Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE Very Rev. Father Patrick, C.P. of Marrickville, having volunteered his services as chaplain to the Australian Contingent about to embark for South Africa, a public meeting has been called for…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Mr H. W. Seager, writing to the London "Spectator " says:--"Those critical quidnuncs who prophesy that the Transvaal Boers will hate the English with an undying hatred after they have…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, Janary 5.—The New South Wales Lancers, under Captain G. Lee, were sent by Lieutenant-General French to prevent the looting of the commissariat train which was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A despatch announcing the fall of Ladysmith was pulished last evening (November 29) in Paris in extra special editions. The "Liberte," formerly (says the correspondent of the "Daily News") a paper of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, Friday.--Thoughtful minds have frequently been exorcised as to exactly how the Boers obtained the large supplies of war material which is known to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A war could hardly be imagined which, more than the one in South Africa, ought to be a case of what the Burgeons call "circumscribed inflammation," for the best that the Boers can hope for…
Continued on Trove, page 57 →According to Lord Wolseley, the British field artillery is equal to that of any of the European Powers. He declares that the success of the Boor artillery is due to the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Colonel T. D. Pilcher's force having accomplished the object of its expedition from Belmont has withdrawn from Douglas…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An I[?] soldier sends the London "Daily Mail" the following little poem:—You have read the gallant story. You have greated the news with cheers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. A. B. PATERSON, the "Mail's" Special Correspondent and Artist at the neat of war, has Kent his first letters and pictures from Africa. They are prefaced by details of the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The "Madgeburg- Zeitung" published a letter from Joubert, dated "in front of Lady smith, 27th October,"in answer to a letter from a German friend of the General's who lived…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It is now abundantly clear (says a South African correspondent, writing in the "British Medical Journal") that during the South African campaign the medical service, both in the army and civil…
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →The British Artillery with General Sir Redvers Buller's force, near Chieveley, shelled the enemy's trenches on the plain at the foot of Inhlawe Hill, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Mrs. H. E. Kirby, whose farm "Klipfontein,". at Highlands, was invaded by the Boer commando under David Joubert, tells an interesting story. which throws considerable light on the Boer…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Directly the Boer leader was out of sight Barbara repaired to her room and hastily pencilled a note to her lover in which, as already stated, she informed him that a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The founder and manager of the Woman's Work Guild for providing lint and hospital wraps, etc., for the wounded in Scuth Africa--Mrs. F. J. Waller, of Parkside, Parramatta--has been…
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