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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
2,972 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 149
LONDON, January 24, 2.20 p.m.— While some Dragoon Guards were skirmishing near Harrismith, Orange River Colony, a Boer boy, aged 6, approached, and suddenly drawing a revolver…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Semi-official newspapers on the Continent are trying to discredit the statement by Viscount Cranborne as to the frendly attitude of Great Britain to the United States during…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →ALBANY (W.A.), Friday Morning.— The transport Manchester Merchant has arrived from (Capetown She has come out to take back portion of the new Australian Contingent, but so…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The French colonial trooper in full marching order in China. PUZZLE: FIND THE ZOUAVE?…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Sir,—The proposal of the Minister to resume the historic square opposite the Lands Office for the purpose of a soldiers' memorial hall is hardly one which will commend itself to those who wish to preserve all…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →When the sunset-flush is fading in the quiet western skies, And the mists of eve are stealing o'er the plain, Often shall the patient watchers look with…
Continued on Trove, page 253 →LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- The following particulars are to hand relating to Australasian soldiers on active service in South Africa: --…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Britain's, heart is sad to-day O'er her army's brief reverses, Bloodier still must be the fray Ere the cloud of war disperses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest news from Pretoria states that the British operations in the Orange Colony are creating intense interest. The plans, including the blockhouses…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Henderson, of Johannesburg, has offered to forfeit £10,000 if the charges of inhumanity made against the British are proved within six months. He leaves the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There has been quite a rough-and-tumble in the Senate since Wednesday over this extreme loyalty business. Earlier in the week Higgins presented a "stop the war" petition in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Kruger tells the Dutch press that the Boer leaders claim complete independence, and that negotiations for peace are hopeless without the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A well-attended meeting of Indies and gentlemen interested in organising opposition to militarism and the spread of the war spirit in Australia was held at the Elite-hall on Friday night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, December 20.--The "row" at the Northamptonshire village of Raunds over the introduction of a new lasting machine by the boot manufacturers is one of those troubles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—In your issue of the 18th instant, "Nationalist" speaks of the loud-mouthed jingoes who try and persuade the public (the public do not want to be persuaded in this country) as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Commandant Beyers on January 22 seized the concentration camp at Pietersburg and carried, off a large number of Boers who had surrendered to the British…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, January 26, 2.15 p.m.—Two men of the Imperial Yeomanry assert that a party of Boers in December captured a small convoy near Phillippopolis, in the south-west of the Orange…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lord Methuen captured at Boschpoort 136 waggons, 19,011 cattle, 23,750 sheep, and 35 families…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—In Thursday's issue of the "Evening News" I saw an incident in connection with the Alien Restriction Act—the two Indian soldiers who, it is stated, have been serving in China,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The steamer Australasian arrived from Capetown direct on Saturday with the following New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand returned soldiers:—Lieutenant Knight Smith (N.S.W.), Prince…
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