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  4. THE BOER WAR.

    Tho intelligence from the Transvaal during the past week was meagre and devoid of special interest, but seems to indicate that the Boer resistance to the British is ...

    Article : 161 words
  5. RUSSIANS BEAT THE CHINESE.

    The Russians have occupied all the Important positions on the right bank of the Amur, and, in the fighting, kllled 2000 Chinese and captured seventeen guns. ...

    Article : 164 words
  6. AUSTRALIA TO BADEN-POWELL.

    At a meeting of the committee formed to make the necessary arrangements for this presentation to Major-General. Baden-Powell at the Town Hall on Friday ...

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  7. LOOTING STOPPED By BRITISH. AMERICANS AND JAPANESE.'

    Property worth millions of taels was looted In the native portion of Tien-tsin before it fell Into the hands of allies. In addition to a vast amount of ...

    Article : 90 words
  8. DOERS TO MAINTAIN THEIR OWN DEPENDENTS.

    Field-Marshal Lord Roberts has ordered the wives and children of Doers at Pretoria to rejoin the men fighting at Pinaars Poort, thus lessening the preasure on the ...

    Article : 49 words
  9. MUM'S THE WORD.

    Responsible Chinese officials admit that It is possible to communicate with Pekin in three days. The Chinese telegraph officials have been threatened with death if ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 327 words
  10. LITTLE ENGAGES DE WET—DEFEAT OF THE ENEMY.

    The action in which Lieutenant-Colonel M. O. Little, of the 9th Lancers, engaged Commandant do Wet near Lindley was with 1500 Boers who had traversed the British ...

    Article : 61 words
  11. VICTORIA GROSS AWARDS.

    Further awards of tho Victoria Cross have been made as follows:— Captain M. F. M. Melklejohn of the 2nd Gordon Highlanders, for conspicuous gallantry at the battle of Elandslaagte. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  12. YORKSHIR [?]

    A party of Boers clad in khaki surprised a picket of 25 men of the Yorkshire Regiment at Lindley. The picket fought doggedly, and suffered 18 casualties. ...

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  13. AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEERS.

    The Aberdeen, line steamer Salamis has been chartered by the Imperial Government to take 450 Naval volunteers from Sydney and Melbourne She will first go to ...

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  14. WRECKING A TRAIN FULL OF SICK TROOPS.

    A force of Boers wrecked a train between Krugersdorp and Potchefstroom, In the South-Western Transvaal. ...

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  15. KRUGER DISCOURAGED AND BOTHA SULKING.

    President Kruger lias boon greatly discouraged by the surrender of Rustenburg, In the Western Transvaal. ...

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  16. THE PEKIN MASSACRE.

    Chinese officials adopted cunning methods to make it appear that the Ambassadors and others in Pekin were still alive. A message purporting to be from the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  17. LOSS OF HORSES BY THE ANNESLEY.

    The steamer Annesley, from Newcastle and Melbourne, has arrived at Durban. During the voyage she lost 201 horses. [The Annesley shipped 300 head of cattle ...

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  18. A SKIRMISH AT RIETVLET—CAPTURE OF NEW-ZEALANDERS.

    The attack made by the Boers on Lieutenant-General Polo Carew's division was at Rietviel, near Pretoria. The Boers used Creusot guns and ...

    Article : 156 words
  19. THE MEDICAL SERVICE DIFFICULTIES.

    Dr. W. W. Cheyue, professor of surgery at King's College. London, in a letter to the "Times," condemns the absence of independent transport for tho Array Medical ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  20. ROYAL IRISH AND COLONIALS—BEAT

    The Royal Irish Regiment, the Western Australians, and Major Vaughan's New Zealanders, on Monday repulsed repeated and determined attacks on ...

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  21. ACCOUNT OF AN EYE-WITNESS. |

    A Chinese merchant of good repute, who says he was an eye-witness, relates, that the Boxers stripped, hacked, and dismembered the white women in the streets of the ...

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  22. A Notable Soldier.

    Sir-Baker Creed Russell, who has just been given tho G.C.B., is an Australian or whom his fellow colonists, are naturally very proud. Born on the Hunter River, in ...

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  23. NO PRO-BOERS WANTED.

    The New Zealand House of Representatives passed a resolution by 17 to 10, dispencing with the services of the chief of ...

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  24. The Chinese Crisis.

    The Chinese Emperor on July 3 wrote to the Mikado of Japan, asking that Japan and China should make common cause against Europe. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  25. A BILL FOR TRAITORS.

    The Bill relating to high treason, Introduced into tho Capo Colony Assembly by the Premier, Sir J. Gordon Sprigs, provides for the creation of a special court, ...

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  26. THE DEATH ROLL.

    Among the Europeans massacred at Pekin were:—Sir Claude Macdonald (the British Minister), Lady Macdonald, and two children. ...

    Article : 230 words
  27. BOER PEACE DELEGATE'S GOLD.

    A. D. W. Wolmarans, one of tho recent Boer peace delegates, has been arrested at Hatherley, near Pretoria, bearing arms, though he had taken the both of neutrality. ...

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  28. BOERS BREAK THE CORDON.

    Lord Roberts reports that 1508 Boers, with live guns, broke through the cordon of Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter and Lieutennat-General Sir H. M. Rundle near ...

    Article : 128 words
  29. MISSING MISSIONARIES.

    Eighty-two Belgian missionaries are reported to be missing. ...

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  30. THREE DAYS OF BUTCHERY—20,000

    Three days butchery of native Christians In the provinces of Human and Hupel followed the circulation of Prince Tuan's edict favoring the "Boxers." ...

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  31. JAPAN POURING IN TROOPS.

    The Japanese are embarking another army division, and a large slege train for China. Eight thousand Japanese troops arrived at Tien-tsin on July 16, and 2100 at Chefoo. ...

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  32. METHUEN OCCUPIES HECKPOORT—HAMILTON AND MAHON ADVANCING NORTHWARD—RUMORED TRANSFER OF THE CAPITAL TO JOHANNESBURG.

    A "Sunday Times" special message says: Field Marshal Lord. Roberts reports that General Methuen has occupied Heekpoort. General Ian Hamilton and Major-General ...

    Article : 93 words
  33. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    At Haman's Kraal, with Lieutenant General Ian Hamilton's division, Sergeant F. Maxwell, of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, was killed, and Private G. Gardiner, ...

    Article : 106 words
  34. POWERS PROHIBIT ARMS FOR CHINA.

    The Powers have agreed to a proposal by M. Deleasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, to prohibit the exportation of arms to China. ...

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  35. REBELS AND OATH-BREAKERS PUNISHED.

    An employee of tho Cape Government, who was implicated in tho rebellion, has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude. ...

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  36. ALLIES PREVAIL AT TIEN-TSIN.

    The destructive fire of the Chinese from the citadel which they had reoccupied in the native city of Tein-tsin compelled the the Allies to again attack on Friday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 335 words
  37. THE RAILWAY ATTACKED BY BOERS. A SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE.

    A detachment of Beers, with four guns, surrounded the railroad, near Heldelberg, on the Transvaal-Natal railway, 25 miles from Johannesburg, on Saturday, and ...

    Article : 68 words
  38. AUSTRALIAN OF HONOR FOR "B.P."—THE ACCEPTED DESIGN.

    MILT (A) obverse, (B) reverse. SCABBARD, Top (C) obverse, (D) reverse; Centre (E) obverse, (F) reverse; Bottom (Q) obverse, (H) reverse. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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