Returned Soldiers
ALBANY (W.A.), January 24.—The transport Manchester Merchant has arrived, from Capetown. She has come out to take back portion of the new Australian Contingent, but so…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1902
2,972 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 149
The War in South Africa. Peace Proposals. Great Britain's Reply to Dr. Kuyper. Reported Nature of the Negotiations. London, Jan. 31
In the House of Commons last night Mr. A. J. Balfour stated that the reply of Great Britain to Dr. Kuyper, Premier of the Netherlands, who made certain peace…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Professor Wood at the Labour Conference. His Speech on the War. Sydney University's Professor of History Denounces the Inhumanity of England. Received with Enthusiasm
The most striking feature of the Labour Conference, so far, was undoubtedly the reception of the delegation from the Anti-Labour War League, headed by…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →War Supplies. (Some of the Items in this Issue appeared in our Latest Edition yesterday.) Large Order to New Zealand. Mr. Seddon Again Scores
AUCKLAND, Friday Afternoon.—The Government received yesterday from the War Office an order three times as large as any previously given to the colony for produce for South Africa…
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No doubt a small percentage of the 70 or 80 men and women who formed themselves into an Anti-War League on Thursday night are genuinely opposed to war. But it is a…
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What is called the Anti-War League met in Sydney on Thursday under the presidency of Professor Woods, there being about 80 present, one-third women…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boer War. Captures by French and Driscoll. London, January 31
Lord-Kitchener reports that General French captured twenty-six of Fouche's commando, and scattered the rest of his followers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Week's Miscellany: a Compilation of the News of the World. the Boer War. General Viljoen and Others Captured
Lord Kitchener reports that General Ben Viljoen was captured in the neighborhood of Lydenburg, in the north-eastern Transvaal. Lord Kitchener says: "Doubtless the…
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The following message was yesterday received by the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth from the General of Communications, Capetown :—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Among the Tombs. St. Jude's, Randwick. Some Military Men—The Twelfth Regiment—Some Old Soldiers—Sir Frederick Pottinger—The "Field of Wheogo"—Sir Frederick Accidentally Shot. II
THERE are many elaborate and interesting memorials to the dead in St. Jude's Cemetery. The pines, which grow in profusion in some parts, make the place more sombre than "cities…
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During the week a body called the Anti-War Society has made a debut by its attempt to "capture," in the American sense, the Political Labour Conference now sitting, in…
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The Political Labor League committed an error in permitting the proposal that the petition issued by the Anti-War League should be signed by its president to be even…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cost of the War. Another £5,000,000 Voted
LONDON, February 1, 1.5 p.m.—The House of Commons went into Committee of Supply last night. There was only a thin House. In moving a supplementary vote of £5,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dangerous War Relics. Important Warning to the Public Regarding Shells
We have received the following from the Home Office;--"Two fatal accidents having occurred from the bursting of shells brought home from South Africa, it is necessary to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The War Accounts. Question of Commission on Advances. London, Jan. 31
The "Westminster Gazette" states that the precedent for Mr. See's exaction of commission on advances made by the State of New South Wales for the payment of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →South African War. Proposed Public Meetings. Views of the A. N. A.
Representatives of the board of directors of the Australian Natives' Association waited upon the Mayor of Sydney a fortnight ago, and asked for the. use of the Town Hall, i…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Imperial Politics. Quiet Night in the Commons. Supply Granted. Supplementary War Estimates Voted
LONDON, Saturday.--In the House of Commons last night the debate on the supplementary estimates was continued, and Supply voted in a thin House…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News by Cable. [Copyright.] The Boer War. in Orange River Colony a Laager Captured
LONDON, February 2, 2 p.m.—Colonel Rimington Thursday surprised a laager in the north of Orange River Colony, and captured 22 of the enemy and 16 waggons laden with provisions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Waning War. Ex- President Steyn. An Optimistic View. LONDON, February 2, 2 p.m
Mr. Fischer, the Boer delegate, in an interview, said that in a recent order to the commandos, ex- President Steyn stated: "We will drain the cup to the dregs, though I believe in final success."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. See and the War Office. "Westminster Gazette" Comments. Founded on Slender Precedent. London Friday Afternoon.--The
minster Gazette," commenting on the charge of 3 per cent, made by the New South Wales Government on amounts disbursed for the Imperial Government in connection with the…
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