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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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Sir,--It appears very strange and wrong that the Government has not announced any welcome for the large number of our soldiers returning by the Orient, and expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It was perhaps inevitable that among so large a number of men as that camped at Centennial Park last week complaints of some kind or other should be heard. One grievance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Victoria's welcome to the returned soldiers by the Orient to-day was magnificent. It was enthusiastic and orderly, and homely. There was no holiday, no…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE; Monday.--Official information, has been received from South Africa to the effect that Lieutenant Tom Skene, son of Mr. Thomas Skene, owner of Marnoo station, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The raiders are nearing Cape Town. The Boers are as lively as crickets, and the war isn't over by a long way. Oar soldiers are so afraid of being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday evening last the friends of Trooper G. E. Willson, son of Mr. George Willson, of Crown Cottage. Trafalgar-street, Annandale, assemblod to give him a welcome home on his return from the war,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A volunteer officer (says the London "Dally Telegraph"), writing to a friend a few days since, gives an extrarordinary instance of the pecuullar methods which the War Office…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monthly.--The Dowager-Empress has telegraphed General Feng-tgelsa[?] to bring his entire Yunnan force of 15,000 men armed with modern weapons,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Since midnight a thousand soldiers have passed through from Sydney to the other states, under the charge of Colonel Williams. They filled three trains. The first arrived at midnight, the next at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Australian soldiers who return to Sydney to-day are just in time to add [?]ustre to the Commonwealth celebrations. They have made for themselves a reputation which all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In connection with the returning soldiers from South Afnra, the reception committee here who have arrauged to give the men belonging to the Wagga district a public welcome, are in uncertainty as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'A large number of men will be landed in Sydney to-day who have returned from the war in South Africa, and as that day will be the final one of the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →[?] Orient, troopship, [?] on board rly 700 men of the New South Wales, enslund, and Now Zealand forces, back the war, came into, port at half-past 6…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBURY, Monday.--Between midnight and 4 o'clock this morning no fewer than 1000 troops passed through Albury from Sydney en route for Victoria, South Australia, and West…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday Tommy Atkins and his colonial brother had a fitting opportunity to exhibit their "fine points" to the many Australians who are at present in Sydney celebrating the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The troopship Orient, with returning New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand soldiers from South Africa, is expected to arrive early this morning. She will berth at the east…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, January 7, 1.40 p.m.-Colonel Babington has defeated the commandos under Commandants De la Rey and Steenkamp at Naupoort, forcing them to retire to the north-west,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There was an Imperial ring about the reception of the Australasian soldiers who returned yesterday morning from South Africa by the Orient, for the reason that the Fusilier group…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.--General M'Arthur, commanding the United States forces in the Philippines, has sent General Del Pilar, four other insurgent loaders, and 13 subordinate officers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, December 7.--Dr. Leyds has not stage-managed Mr. Kruger's entrance into the dear Rhine-land with same success as Com Paul's triumphal progress through Paris. The…
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