The Johannesburg “Times” in commenting upon the position of affairs, says that a remarkable feature of the Boer mobilisation is the number of guns ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Rev Price-Hughes has refused to sign Mr N. T. Stead’s peace manifesto. In taking this stand Mr Hughes says he is convinced that ...
Article : 51 wordsThe members of the Venezuelan Arbitration Commission, convened to consider the boundary dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela, have ...
Article : 95 wordsSix hundred Free State troops are in the vicinity of Harrismith. on their way to the border. Others are occupying the Drakenburg passes. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn reply to a correspondent Lord Salisbury has stated that the Government will make every effort to avert war. Great Britain had no desire to ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Liberal Forwards have telegraphed to President Kruger the text of the Duke of Devonshire’s speech in the hope that it will have a pacific ...
Article : 32 wordsGenerals K. Meyer, the chairman of the First Raad, P. A. Kronje, Welbeck, and Schalkberger are the chief Boer leaders and General Prinstoo ...
Article : 44 wordsThe natives have looted Charlestown, a small town in the extreme north of Natal, and formerly the terminus of the Durban line. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Boers have seized gold to the value of half a million in transit to the Cape. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe first of the series of races for the American Cup, which is to take place to-day between the American yacht Columbia and the British yacht ...
Article : 228 wordsIt is stated that 1000 Boers are assembled on the Natal frontier, They are boasting that they will sweep the English into the sea. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe French Consul at Pretoria has reported to the French authorities that President Kruger has sent an ultimatum to Great Britain declaring that the ...
Article : 47 wordsA body of the Orange Free State troops has closed the Botha Pass, which leads through the Drakenbury Range of mountains into Natal. ...
Article : 30 wordsCharleston, a railway town in Natal, near the border of the Free State, has been deserted. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that the first army corps norval at Aldershot has been ordered to get ready for transport to South Africa. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Johannesburg trains arrived at Newcastle a day late, many of the passengers being in an exhausted condition owing to want of food on the journey. ...
Article : 30 wordsA laree body of Free State troops are proceeding in the direction of Kimberley. They have with them a quantity of artillery, and it is supposed that they ...
Article : 47 wordsPresident Kroger has enfranchised a large number of Englishmen upon enrolment, thereby preventing them from being punished for treason. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe exodus from Johannesburg is still swelling in volume, as the near approach of war seems inevitable. On Saturday and Sunday no less ...
Article : 40 wordsBrigadier-General Sir William Penn Symons has been placed in command of a force of 8000 regulars and 2300 volunteers, who will operate chiefly at ...
Article : 55 wordsReports are to hand that the Boers are insulting and maltreating refugees from Johannesburg, who have fallen into their hands. Amongst other ...
Article : 59 wordsAll telegraphic and mail communication between Natal and the Transvaal has now been suspended. ...
Article : 18 wordsPremier Schreiner is blamed by the Cape Loyalists for granting numerous gun licenses to Dutchmen resident on the frontier, and allowing a large ...
Article : 39 wordsBoth the Transvaal Houses of Legislature have adjourned. ...
Article : 12 wordsFurth[?] particulars are coining to hand relative to the disaster at Darjeeling. One of the missionaries resident at the mission station there met a ...
Article : 78 wordsPresident Kruger has issued a manifesto, stating that the Boers will not be able to work the mines, and promising to protect all miners who remain on the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe first Indian transport has arrived at Durban. It has on board a battery of field artillery, which has been stationed at Bangalore, in southern ...
Article : 42 wordsPresident Steyn has asked the United States to appeal to . England to submit the points at issue with the Transvaal to arbitration. The American ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the event of war between England and the South African Republic Admiral Schley will proceed to Delogoa for the purpose of taking measures for the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Magicienne, a British war vessel, has been ordered to Delagoa Bay. An Italian cruiser has also been ordered to the same destination. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Jockey Club Stakes run yesterday was won by that marvellous horse, Flying Fox, Scintillant being second and Chosen third. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe British Government has ordered 4,500,000 lbs of tinned meat, for the use of the troops in the Transvaal from the Louisville Packing Company. ...
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