Soldiers Three. (To the Editor of the "Australian Star.")
Sir.--I' have pleasure in sending a cheque for £3 for the benefit of the three Imperial soldiers injured by the late gun explosion…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
3,969 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 199
Prisoners of War
The treatment of prisoners is now strictly regulated by international law. Quarter must be given. When a soldier lays down his arms the victor has no power over his life. Moreover, he…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →N.s.w. Casualties at the War
Sir William Lyne has received the following cable from the High Commissioner for South Africa: "Capetown, December 30.-Lieutenant Miller slightly wounded and 850 Younger slightly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Dreyfus Case. How Cuignet Was Sentenced. by the Minister for War
LONDON, Wednesday.--In his speech upon the Amnesty Bill in the French Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday the 18th. December, Commandant Cuignet asserted that the alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News by Cable. [Copyright.] The Boer War. the Invasion of Cape Colony. Farms Looted. Cavalry in Pursuit
LONDON, January 2, 2.10 p.m.-The Boers, who have invaded Cape Colony, are now southwards of Middelburg. Large reinforcements of British troops have…
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FORBES, Wednesday.-A telegram has been received here by the Mayor from Albany (W.A.), stating that Lieutenant E. P. M'Donnell, Staff Sergeant-Major Wasson, Q.M. Sergeant Webster,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Imperial Soldiers' Treatment. To the Editor of the "Evening News."
Sir,-May I trespass on your valuable columns for a few lines on the above subject? My attention has been drawn to several little matters which must have a bad effect on the minds of…
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In that particularly fine play, "A New way to. Pay Old Debts," which' the late Gustavus Vaughan Brooke 'first made widely known Lo Australian playgoers, there occurs the…
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Walter Havelock, an artilleryman just home from the war, who was to have been married today (says the London "Daily Telegraph," of November 16), was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Explosion. German Soldiers Killed
LONDON, January 3.-A defective cartridge in a gun at Peitang, on the Pei-ho, while a salute was being fired, caused an explosion. Five German soldiers were killed, and fourteen wounded,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Demonstration to Returned Soldiers. Bathurst
A meeting of the demonstration and finance committee in connection with the demonstration to the returning soldiers was held to-night in the Town Hall. The Mayor (Mr. R. L. Gilmour) was in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Fatal Explosion. German Soldiers Killed. London, Jan. 3
The use of a defective cartridge in a gun at Peitang, on the Pei-ho, while a salute was being fired, caused an explosion. Five German soldiers were killed, and 14 were wounded,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Commonwealth. Our Soldiers Abroad. Celebrations in China and Africa. LONDON, January 3, 1.45 p.m
An Australian Commonwealth banquet was held at Mafeking. The Australians in the frontier town, belonging to Colonel the Earl of Erroll's brigade,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soliciting H.m.'s Soldiers. Foreigner Sentenced to Death. Roberts' Leniency
In the Johannesburg Military Tribunal a few days ago (says the "Times" of Natal of November 30) Henry Mack, a German-American, was indicted for having incited a soldier' to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers and Dutch Wives. The Clergyman's Advice
Apropos of the interesting fact that a number of soldiers have been marrying Dutch girls in Pretoria, thus bringing about that fusion of the races which is naturally looked upon to…
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About the first department to be taken over by the Federal Government, It is reported, will be that of defence, It will certainly be necessary to take early action in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Medal for Visiting Soldiers
A suggestion has been made that the Commonwealth Government should at once ask the permission of the imperial authorities to allow the visiting soldiers to wear a medal to be struck in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News by Cable. [Copyright.] The Boer War. Sedition in Cape Colon! Feeling at Capetown. the Invaders. Millets and Dynamite. Packed As Condensed Milk
LONDON, January 8, 1.45 p.m.-The feeling at Capetown is that strong reinforcements are imperative, and the absence of an actual rising of the Dutch in Cape Colony its ascribed to lack of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Africa. Alleged Treatment of Wounded Soldiers
Mr. Julian Ralph writes thus in the London Daily Mail :—"I am able to bear out much of the worst that Mr. Burdett-Coutts has written. There were 2500 enteric patients when I left them…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Comforts for Sick and Wounded Soldiers. Mrs. Waller's Shipments
Very gratifying news of the good done by the effort of the women of New South Wales, which resulted in the parcels of comforts shipped by Mrs. F. J. Waller, of Parramatta, continue to be…
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