The War Office has just published a despatch from General Buller announcing in the successful result of the past week of severe and sanguinary fighting by his ...
Article : 114 wordsG. Sutherland's challenge to E. Reynolds has been allowed by the New Zealand League, so that Sutherland will proceed at once to New Zealand to ride ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 999 words"Cronje has surrendered unconditionally, and is now a prisoner in the camp of Lord Roberts." That was the news that ran like fire in a field of grass through ...
Article : 1,981 wordsIt has now come out that a council of war was held, when the question of surrender or of continuing the fight was discussed. General Cronje wished to go on ...
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Advertising : 931 wordsThe Boer prisoners taken at Paardeberg have started for Capetown under a strong escort. The women and children who were with the force are being sent home. ...
Article : 110 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller reports that he attacked the Boer position from the direction of Langverwachte Spruit, but was baffled, after suffering heavy ...
Article : 66 wordsColonel Price, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, who is in command of a force composed of a troop of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, some artillery and a strong ...
Article : 194 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buller reports that after six days' hard fighting his forces succeeded in establishing themselves on the lower spurs of Pieter's Hill, near Pieter's ...
Article : 170 wordsMajor-Geneial Barton, commanding the Sixth (Fusilier) Brigade, was directed to take two of his battalions, together with the 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers. The ...
Article : 164 wordsMr. Robert Harris, a son of Rear-Admiral Sir R. H. Harris, K.C.M.G., Commander-in-Chief on the Cape station, and Flag Lieutenant M. A. Kennard, R.N., ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Afrikander Bond, whose object recent events have revealed to be nothing less than the foundation of a great Dutch Republic, to extend over all South Africa, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 355 wordsSir Redvers Buller adds that there is still a considerable body of Boers on Bulwhana Mountain, which includes Isimbulwana and Lombard's Kop, or Little ...
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Article : 26 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, the Bill introduced by Mr. J. H. Lewis, Liberal, M.P. for Flint Boroughs, to make eight hours a statutory days work ...
Article : 42 wordsReports as to the previous fighting state that on Sunday night the Boers made a determined attack on the British position at Fort Wylie, a quarter of a ...
Article : 92 wordsThe German battle ship Sachsen, 7441 tons, 14 guns, 14 knots, which has only been recently constructed and reboilered with water tubed boilers, has gone ashore ...
Article : 46 wordsThe well-known picture, the Holy Mother, by F. Goodall, R.A., has been purchased by the Brisbane Gallery. Lord and Lady Lamington and family, ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Queen has telegraphed to General Sir Redvers Buller, informing him of her deepest concern for the heavy losses which have befallen her brave Irish soldiers in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 278 wordsPrivate T. Smithie, New South Wales Medical Corps, is reported dead from enteric fever at Orange River Camp. ...
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Advertising : 89 wordsOwing to the rapidity with which Lord Roberts moved, some of his regiments could not be fully supplied by the transport, which was unable to keep pace, ...
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Article : 154 wordsLieutenant-General French, with his cavalry division and mounted infantry, is vapidly advancing eastward upon Bloemfontein, which is under 70 miles from ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Cameron, M.L.A., who has been a member of Castlemaine Mining Board for the past 36 years without ever having been opposed, has been again elected for ...
Article : 29 wordsGeneral Cronje's demeanor was quiet and dignified. He was dressed in civilian clothes. He rode into the British camp on a pony, and on coming to Lord ...
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