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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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At the monthly meeting of the board of management of the Typographical Association, the delegates to the Political Labor Conference presented their report of the proceedings. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, February 7, 2.25 p.m.—The protest of Mr. Andres Cronje against the prolongation of the war, and announcing the formation of burgher corps, has annoyed Commandant De la…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Publicists in Berlin are strenuously endeavouring to convince Americans that it was Germany and not Great Britain which prevented a European coalition in favour of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shortly after three o'clock on the afternoon of December 20th, a double tragedy was discovered to have been committed on Hampstead Heath. A little boy named Quirk, while passing the Six…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir—One of the most stupidly impudent attempts at trying to suppress the right of freedom of thought and speech, on the subject of the South African War, was introduced by an…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Mr. A. J. Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury, stated in the House of Commons last night that the Government had asked Lord Kitchener to communicate the Notes of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The National (Burgher) Scouts have captured an additional 20 Boers at Middleburg, including Field-Cornet Gouws…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Who has not heard of the Roman soldier whose remains were found at Herculaneum? About 1800 years ago Versuvius was in eruption, and sent down on the city a hot, blinding rain of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The State Premier received the following cables from Capetown yesterday afternoon:—"Death from enteric fever at Bloemfontein, February 4, 3rd New South Wales Mounted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An extraordinary disaster was reported from Chamberry on December 23. The 4th Company of the 13th Alpine Regiment was engaged in some military manoeuvres on a stretch of…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →There have been many stories told about Tommy Atkins and bis pipe, but perhaps the following, which appears in a trade contemporary, is the most wonderful! A surgeon,…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Included in the long list of officers who called upon the Federal Commandant (Sir E. T. H. Hutton) was Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Byron, R.A.A., of Queensland, a gentleman who has done excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The following sketch of the career of the Federal Commandant should prove of interest:--Edward Thomas Henry Hutton (Aidede-Camp to the King), hon. colonel 7th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday. -- The "National Zei-tung," a Berlin journal, states that the letter of Commandant Smuts, who has been degraded by General Botha, shows that the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Friday. -- Private W. C. Jackson, Third New South Wales Mounted Rifles, has died of enteric at Bloemfontein. The following telegraphic despatches have…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →For the gentle art of misrepresentation the Daily Telegraph has a reputation that may be unenviable, but, nevertheless, must be the despair of all the conscienceless journals of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It is a long time since there has been such sound and fury in the newspapers as that which during the past week has hurtled round Lord Rosebery. It began quietly enough with a paragraph in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—After reading different letters, leaders, and sub-leaders anent the expressions of Professor Wood and others regarding the Boer War, does it not strike you as wicked and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"How effectually the British troops are carrying out the work of attrition in South Africa is better illustrated by the accounts given in soldiers' letters than, in the meagre…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At a conference of the Political Labor League Mr. Meehan (Bourke) moved,— "That this conference believes that with a view of terminating the war in South…
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