Cost of the War. Cape Colony Will Pay £10,000,000. LONDON, February 21
I am informed on very high authority that the Cape war contribution will be ten million pounds. [It was cabled yesterday that the "Cape…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1903
1,404 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 71
The Cape's War Contribution. the Suggested Coalition
LONDON, February 21.—Any money contribution from Cape Colony towards the war expenses is considered improbable. According to the Johannesburg…
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Any money contribution from Cape Colony towards tho expenses of the late war is considered improbable. According to the Johannesburg…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →South Africa. the Cape War Contribution. Sir Gordon Sprigg's Position. No Contribution Now Thought Likely
LONDON, Saturday.--The Johannesburg "Leader" states that while at Mafeking recently Sir Gordon Sprigg undertook, as Premier, to propose in the Cape Parliament…
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Reuter's Agency learns that it was informally suggested to Mr. Chamberlain that a Cape war contribution of £10,000,000 would be a final and absolute proof of Dutch…
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LONDON, Monday.-- Reuter's Agency reports that it was informally suggested to Mr. Chamberlain that a Cape war contribution of [?]10,000,000 be accepted as a final…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News by Cable. [Copyright.] South Africa. the Bond Address. the Cape War Contribution. Chamberlain and Hofmeyr
LONDON, February 23, 3.15 p.m.—The consensus of opinion in Capetown is that the interview with the Bond leaders was the best day's work accomplished by Mr…
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GUNDAGAI, Monday Afternoon.—At Jungiong, 25 miles from Gundagai, on Saturday last, a returned soldier, named Thomas sheehan, it is alleged, quarrelled with Charles Bennett over some…
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The decision of the War Office to extend the granting of the South African war gratuity of £5 to every soldier, colonial or British, who served in any of the recognised corps and contingents, has thrown an…
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At the sitting of the Royal Commission on the War in South Africa. General Sir Redvers Buller stated that when selected in June. 1899, as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in South Africa in the…
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LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Experiments are new being carried out at Hounslow with new cavalry methods, embracing Boer tactics and other lessons of the South African war,…
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LONDON, February 18.—At the sitting of the Royal Commission on the War in South Africa, General Sir Redvers Buller, who was Commander-in-Chief during the first period of the war,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →His Best Day's Work. Mb. Hofmeyr's Statement. Better Than a War Contribution
LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The consensus of opinion at Capetown is that Mr. Chamberlain, in his interview with the Bond leaders, accomplished the best day's work of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boxers and Their Doings the Middle-weight Championship. Soldier Thompson and Jim Richardson at the National. Heavy-weight Supremacy Battle. MoColl and Croedon Ready for Tuesday Night—Exciting Tussles at the Gate and the Gaiety
Entries are sought for a tournament open only to feather-weight novices—that is lads not weighing more than 9st The competition will be set going next Wednesday…
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It was in his great speech at the Wanderers' Club, Johannesburg, on January 17, that Mr. Chamberlain made the long-looked-for announcement as to the war contributions from the new…
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LONDON, Wednesday.-- The Supreme Court of the United States has, in connection with the inter-State transmission of lottery tickets, just delivered an important decision…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australians Who Fell in the War. Pensions for Widows and Orphans
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Defence Department has received an intimation from the War Office that pensions are to be paid to the widows and families of the Australians who lost…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Dutch Railway Strike. Soldiers with Ball Cartridges
LONDON, February 25, 2.25 p.m.—In consequeace of the strike of the railway employees in the Netherlands soldiers occupy the railway stations, and are supplied with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →STRIKES. Holland Railways. Armed Soldiers. London
Considerable anxiety is being caused in Holland by the continued friction between the railway companies and the employees. The threat that the employees would cease…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers' Habits
All sorts of curious habits are ascribed to soldiers, generally with very little reason. The elder Mr. Willet, it will be remembered, characterised what he called "a milingtary air" as "a…
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