In the Imperial Parliament yesterday the scheme of improved national defence promised by the Government in sequence to the supplementary war estimates lately ...
Article : 717 wordsThe Australian "A" Battery, which lately arrived at Capetown, will go to the front on Saturday. The Mayor bas attended to the wants of ...
Article : 520 wordsThe consent of the Japanese Government has been obtained by the Admirality to the transference to it of four big naval quick firing long range guns which are being ...
Article : 79 wordsThe situation at Colesberg where it was a week ago reported that General French had hemmed in 7000 Boers, cutting off their retreat to the Orange River by way of ...
Article : 106 wordsLord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in South Africa, has at Modder River, where he recently arrived, re-viewed the Highland Brigade, which suffered ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Vickers-Maxim gun which the Boers had placed in position at Cole'n Kop, near Colesberg, with which the New South Wales mounted Infantry were recently ...
Article : 135 wordsReinforcements continue to reach South Africa almost daily, and it is estimated by the War Office that by the end of the present month there will be on the fighting lines ...
Article : 46 wordsRemount officers of the British army have purchased in Hungary, the great horse breed-ing country of the Continent, 5000 horses for the British cavalry in South Africa. ...
Article : 33 wordsDuring the fighting at Vaalkrantz, on the northern side of the Tugela, last week, a very courageous act was performed by the Trans-vaal Commandant Viljo[?]n. The gunners of ...
Article : 113 wordsIn the severe fighting in which the West Australian reconnaissance party, under Major Moore, were engaged against a large commando of Boers, near Slingersfontein, on ...
Article : 312 wordsPresident Kruger, who closed Robinson's South African Bank, at Johannesburg, has now seized the premises and books, and transferred all the customers' accounts to the ...
Article : 36 words"Ican't sleep!" How frequently we hear this expression. The people who use it appear haggard, with blood-shot eyes, trembling hands, and ...
Article : 306 wordsThough the Ladysmith garrison, after their elation at hearing the guns of General Buller's relief force booming so heavily, felt greatly disappointed when they learnt that he ...
Article : 81 wordsSir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner of South Africa, has issued a proclamation announcing that the British Government will not recognise any forfeitures of mining or ...
Article : 59 wordsThe French War department is displaying feverish activity and eagerness in the completion of the new quick firing field guns with which tho French artillery is to be ...
Article : 94 wordsEvery nerve is being strained by the British War Department to increase the military armament and artillery supplies. At Woolwich arsenal 20,000 men are now ...
Article : 47 wordsThe fate of the two war correspondents who went out with Captain Cameron's half Company of 50 on the reconnaissance near Colesburg which drew forth so strong and ...
Article : 223 wordsIt is estimated that the Boor commandos whom Major-General Macdonald dispersed at K[?]odoosberg, west of the Modder, last week, lost 100 men. in the fighting. When the ...
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