Reuter's Agency reports that the British columns under Colonels Do Lisle and Fanihave had an engagement with a large Boer force under Commandant Do Wet at Trommel ...
Article : 87 wordsSentence of death has been passed on a farmer at Murraysburg, in Caps Colony, for having joined tho enemy, but the sentence has been commuted to penal servitude for life. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe following Australasian casualties are announced:—Private William Rohson Davis, of the Seventh New Zealand Contingent, died from ...
Article : 59 wordsA message sect by Commandant Piet Viljoen to Mr. Schalk Burger, the nominal acting president of the Transvaal, has been intercepted. In this message Mr. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Afrikander residents at Graaf Reinet have held a meeting, at which the Hon. Gysbert Henry Maasdorp, member of the Cape Legislative Council for the Midland ...
Article : 76 wordsThe correspondent of the "Standard" reports that Commandant Do Wet, with a force of 400 men, succeeded in catting the wire entanglements between the blockhouses, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe report of the commission of ladies, appointed by the Government last year to visit and investigate the management of the concentration camps in South Africa, ...
Article : 112 wordsThe strict censorship which now is being adopted in South Africa is interpreted to mean that Lord Kitchener is organising another great move against the Boers. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe loyalist members of the Parliament of Cape Colony are asking for the passing of an Imperial Indemnity Act and other measures which are necessary for the peace of the ...
Article : 36 wordsSpeaking generally, reports from South Africa show that the Transvaal Boers are disposed to surrender to the British; but the Orange Free State Boers are more ...
Article : 206 wordsThe inmates of the concentration camps at Pietersborg and Heilbron, in the Orange River Colony, have been sent to the coast camp, near Durban, the chief port of Naial. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Boers, it is stated, hare practically an undisputed possession of the whole of the Transvaal which lies to the north of the Delagoa Bay railway line, ...
Article : 93 wordsQuartermaster-sergeant Jerome T. Gorman, of the Sixth Queensland Bushmen's Contingent, has died at Green Point from meningitis. ...
Article : 23 wordsLieutenant-general Lord Methuen's force, which is operating in the western Transvaal, has surprised two small laagers and captured 40 Boers. ...
Article : 23 wordsColonel Evans, of the Volunteer Composite Regiment, has been killed in a smart engagement with the Boers at Vryheid, near the Zululand frontier. ...
Article : 27 wordsNews has been received that the Boers laid a mine under the Delagoa Bay railway line, between Machadodorp and Dalmanutha, about 150 miles cast of Pretoria, with the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, in reply to a pro-Boer correspondent, states that General Buller was not asked to re-write his account of the Spionhop ...
Article : 105 wordsCommandants Chris. (?) Botha and Britz, with a fores of 800 Boers, hare been located to the south of Braauwkop. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe following Australasian casualties are announced:—Private George Clarke, of the Fifth Queensland Bushmen's Contingent. ...
Article : 45 wordsSeveral letters concerning the temporary disaster at Ameerspoort, South Africa, on January 4 have been received, and from these we are permitted to quote:— ...
Article : 2,132 wordsWith reference to the engagement at Tweefontein, where Colonel Firman's camp was rushed by the Boers early on Christmas morning, despatches received by the War Office ...
Article : 49 wordsDetails of the capture of 164 Boers at Nooitgedacht show that the British columns under Colonels Park, Williams, and Urmstrom, surprised three of ...
Article : 74 wordsCommandant Geldenhuls has been executed at Middleburg, in Cape Colony. ...
Article : 12 wordsNews has been received that Commandant Hans Grobelaar, with 150 Boers, having repeatedly made, unsuccessful attempts to traverse Colonel Garrett's lines, has fled to ...
Article : 36 wordsThe following Australasian casualties are announced:—Private Thomas Green, of the fifth contingent, Victorian Mounted Infintry, died ...
Article : 84 wordsColonel Gilbert Hamilton reports that his column marched from Nigel on the 18th instant and engaged the Boers at Klidden. The enemy, however, could not be dislodged from ...
Article : 82 wordsThe troops under Major-general Knox and Colonel Barker have reoccupied Senekal, in the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 19 wordsIna skirmish between a British column and a Boer force to the westward of Beaufort West, in the south-west of Cape Colony, on the 19th instant, a notorious rebel named ...
Article : 47 wordsA report to the War Office shows that 15 Boers have been captured near Carolina, in the Eastern Transvsl. LONDON, February 22. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe German pastor and the German residents at Paul (?) have united in a protest against the calumnies which have been circulated about the British troops in South ...
Article : 34 wordsA crowded and enthusiastic meeting was held at Durban, in Natal, yesterday, when resolutions were passed repudiating the slanders on the British army with regard to the ...
Article : 77 wordsA Cape Colony rebel named Vanndermye, son of a member of the Afrikander Bond, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for joining the Boers. ...
Article : 28 wordsMajor Trollope, of the military Ballooning Department, has made an interesting revelation concerning the capture of General Cronje and his force by Lord Roberts at Paardeberg, ...
Article : 95 wordsDetails concerning the death of Colonel Evans, of the Volunteer Composite Regiment, who was killed at Vrybeid, near the Zululand frontier, show that 100 men of the ...
Article : 72 wordsAt the suggestion of Lord Roberts, Commander-in-chief, General Truman, the head of the Remount Department of the War Office, has provisionally resigned, pending the ...
Article : 47 wordsChris. Botha, who was captured at Volksrust, on the northern frontier of Natal, on November 4, has been tried as a rebel, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, with a ...
Article : 49 wordsA British officer, in a letter just received in England, states that several of the Boers who were taken prisoners at Knapsdaar when Commandant-general Louis Bothe's laager ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Qaeenslanders under Colonel Plumer, on the 19th instant, captured 12 Boers at Wakkerstroom, in the south-east of the Transvaal. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Boers who have been sentenced to penal servitude outside Africa are to be sent to the Seychelles Islands, in the Indian Ocean, about 935 miles north of Mauritius. ...
Article : 33 wordsAt a small meeting of the Peace and Arbitration Association in England, Messrs. Cbanning, T. Shaw, and H. Wilson, members of the House of Commons, were authorised ...
Article : 87 wordsA special gaol for the accommodation of 1,200 ordinary prisoners of war is being constructed at Antigua, Leeward Islands, and will be ready for occupation about the middle ...
Article : 36 wordsThe following officers, who were invalided, are convalescent, and have resumed duty:—Captain H. Caves, of the third New South Wales bushmen's contingent. ...
Article : 106 wordsDr. Kuyper (Premier of Holland), according to a message from the Hague, is convinced that the mission of Messrs. Wessels and Wolmaxans to the United States to induce ...
Article : 47 wordsColonel Spens has brought into Ermelo, in the eastern Transvaal, 11 Boer prisoners and 19 others who had surrendered. Fourteen Boers have surrendered to the ...
Article : 86 wordsNews cornea from Washington that the Hon. John Hay, United States Secretary of State, has refused to ask the British Am. bassador for passports to enable Dr. and Mrs. ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 28 Feb 1902, Page 10
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