Major-general Bruce Hamilton has wired stating that his column was on the march when Colonel Wing reported that there was a large concentration of Boers on the very spot ...
Article : 135 wordsOut of a total of 17,GSS men, 42,905 women, and 50,424 children, in the concentration camps in South Africa, 160 men, 453 women, and 1,767 children died daring ...
Article : 68 wordsThe detachment of 1,200 men from the regiments of the Guards, who are leaving far South Africa, and who were inspected by the King on Wednesday, had a great farewell ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is reported that Dr. Kuyper, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, immediately after his return visit to London, saw Mr. Woimarans, one of the Boer delegates in ...
Article : 145 wordsThe speech delivered at Wellington by Mr. Seadon, the New Zealand Premier, in which he declared that he was ready to prepare a ninth contingent for service in South ...
Article : 100 wordsA bluebook on South Africa has been published, which shows that the establishment of concentration camps for the families of the Boers became imperative, in consequence of a ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Henderson, of Johannesburg, has offered to par a sum of £10,000 if the charges of inhumanity made against the British troops in South Africa are proved within six ...
Article : 74 wordsThe papers belonging to Commandant Smut, which were recently seized by the British, show that the Swazi natives supplied him not only with information but with ...
Article : 39 wordsThe War Office is making large purchases of New Zealand oats at 23s. Gd. per 384 lbs. ...
Article : 20 wordsIt is reported that Captain Mueller, a German officer, lain command of Commandant De Wet's guns. Commandant Be Wet, by doubling, has ...
Article : 59 wordsIt is announced that the chief Boer military depot, between the Olifant and Crocodile rivers, is situated in an almost inaccessible position. It contains about 60,000 ...
Article : 73 wordsWith reference to the death of General J. Opperman, the chief leader of the southeastern commandoes in the Transvaal, Mr. Bennet Burleigh, correspondent of the ...
Article : 55 wordsLord Kitchener in a despatch, which appears in the bluebook, has indignantly denied that the women and children in the concentration camps have been roughly or ...
Article : 32 wordsLord Milner has informed a correspondent that 50,000 Outlanders who had been compelled to leave the Transvaal on the outbreak of the war were desirous of returning, and ...
Article : 69 wordsAn outbreak of smallpox has occurred at the Hounslow barracks, necessitating the postponement of the departure of the 5th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment for ...
Article : 35 wordsIn a despatch sent in November last, Lord Milner, High Commissioner for South Africa and Governor of the Transvaal, insists that the whole of the loyalist refugees must be ...
Article : 59 wordsCommandant De Wot Ls reported to be now to the north-east of Lindley, in the Orange River Colony. Twenty-five Boers belonging to ...
Article : 65 wordsSeveral of the Boer prisoners at the Cape have passed their examinations at the university at Capetown. LONDON, January 20. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe following Australian casualties are announced: —Private P. G. Smart, of the second contingent New South Wales Mounted Infantry, ...
Article : 46 wordsThe following are extracts from a letter written or an officer of the Queensland Imperial Bushmen (fifth Queensland contingent) to his parents:— ...
Article : 1,060 wordsA body of Boers surprised the British at Willow Dam, situated to the west of Mafeking. In their attack they shot the wife of an officer, who was standing at the door of a ...
Article : 200 wordsSmall batches of Boers, making in the aggregate a considerable number, are being captured daily by the British columns. ...
Article : 22 wordsIt is reported that Lord Kitchener has collected a vast number of remounts at Bloemfontein, in readiness for the reinforcements which are being prepared for a big ...
Article : 422 wordsThe latest advices received by Mr. Kruger show that the number of Boers in the field and the Afrikander recruits are rapidly dwindling. Other advices state that the men belonging ...
Article : 46 wordsCommandant Kruitzinger, another disloyal Cape Dutchman, who was captured in Cape Colony in December, will be placed on his trial immediately. ...
Article : 23 wordsA company of the Royal Monster Fusiliers, under Major Whitehead, stormed a Boer position at Griquatown, about 100 miles west of Kimberley, in Cape Colony, at the point of ...
Article : 61 wordsHis Majesty King Edward yesterday inspected l,200 men of the Guards regiments who are leaving for South Africa. In wishing godspeed to the troops, the King said he ...
Article : 64 wordsColonel Munroe's column has had an encounter with the Boers at Karmelspruit, and the enemy lost four lulled and six capytured. ...
Article : 25 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Canada, has sent a message to Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, Premier of Cape Colony, heartily reciprocal ins the New Year greetings sent by the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Boers in the Barkly East district, in the north-east of Cape Colony, admit that during the last two months 150 of their number hare been either killed or captured, ...
Article : 35 wordsA Colonial Office bluebook has been issued which contains an intercepted letter, dated March 21, 1901, addressed by Mr. SchalkBurger (acting President of tee Transvaal) ...
Article : 100 wordsTwenty-three additional Boer leaders, who have been captured, have been banished fur life from South Africa. ...
Article : 21 wordsIn consequence or the complaints made by Commandant-general Botha regarding the treatment of the Boer women and children in the concentration camps. Lord Kitchener in ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Wolma[?], one of the Boer delegates, has been interviewed at the Hague by a representative of Renter's Agency. During the interview he stated that the extension of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Pretoria correspondent of the "Times" reports that the numerous captures made by the British columns have deraoralised the Boers in the Eastern Transvaal, and a [?] ...
Article : 126 wordsA pamphlet written by Mr. Slooten (late predicent in the Transvaal) is reported to have created a sensation in the United States, where it has been circulated. In it the ...
Article : 90 wordsRenter's Agency reports that Dr. Kuyper, Premier of Holland, after ascertaining the terms on which the Boer delegates in Europe were willing to negotiate for peace with ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 24 Jan 1902, Page 11
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