The siege of Koodoosrand continues. Cronje is using rockets in the hop of attracting as instance. In the mean time the beleaguered Boers have ...
Article : 64 wordsThe following message has been received at the War Office from Lord Roberts :— “General Cronje, with all his force, ...
Article : 71 wordsThe following further despatch from Lord Roberts giving particulars of Cronje’s surrender, and of the events immediately preceding the capitulation ...
Article : 297 wordsIt is estimated that up to Friday last 5000 Boers had withdrawn from Natal In all directions the Boer commandos are said to be hastening to ...
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Advertising : 39 wordsKing Humbert of Italy has sent a message of congratulation to the Queen. ...
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Advertising : 309 wordsIn Canada the news of Cronje’s surrender, coupled with the part taken in the siege of Koodoos Band by the Canadian troops, has provoked a ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Queen has congratulated Lord Roberts. ...
Article : 10 wordsHeavy fighting took place around Grobler’s Kloof on Saturday last Eight British officers were killed and 34 wounded. The officers killed ...
Article : 37 wordsThe War Office is in receipt of a further telegram from Lord Roberts dealing with the Boer surrender. The Commander-in-chief explained ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Queen yesterday visited the royal military hospital at Netley, and personally informed the wounded soldiers of Cronje’s surrender. ...
Article : 77 wordsA British balloon assisted Kitchener to locate four of the enemy’s ammunition waggons in the river bed, and within an hour these were exploded ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Boer’s defence was splendidly stubborn, while the British attack was magnificent. The Inniskillings and Royal Irish ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is supposed that the Boer prisoners who capitulated with Cronje number about 6000. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Royal Engineers, forming part of Roberts’ army, are now engaged in sapping towards the Boer laager at Koodoosrand. ...
Article : 21 wordsTremendous enthusiasm has been kindled in London and the provinces by Lord Roberts’ success. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn view of the unimportant seizure of guns at Koodoosrand, it is supposed that the Boer heavy guns were buried at Magersfontein and that the others ...
Article : 50 wordsThe railway yard at Colenso is said to be full of waggons loaded with necessaries and luxuries for the beleaguered garrison at Ladysmith. ...
Article : 28 wordsDuring the battle at Colenso on the 20th General Buller’s casualties among rank and file numbered 113. ...
Article : 23 wordsFurther particulars have been received respecting Buller’s advance. During the fighting at Grobler’s Kloof on Friday, the Irish Brigade suffered ...
Article : 53 wordsThe British cordon around Koodoosrand is daily becoming closer. On Friday, the Gordon Highlanders rushed 200 yards beyond the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe second Tasmanian contingent has left Cape Town for the front. ...
Article : 19 wordsIt is announced that the casualties among British rank and file in the Paardeberg district on the 18th inst, numbered 750, and included corporal ...
Article : 51 wordsWhile the Australian troopship Maori King, with the Queensland contingent on board, was off Madagascar, a lamp-trimmer was arrested on a ...
Article : 37 wordsThis message was read in Parliament last evening, and was interrupted by prolonged cheers. Lord Roberts’ reference to the ...
Article : 38 wordsSevere fighting between Buller’s army and the enemy continues in the vicinity of Pieter’s station, about five miles from Colenso. ...
Article : 24 wordsSeveral thousand Boers hare made determined but ineffective efforts to relieve Cronje, being everywhere repulsed with heavy loss. ...
Article : 25 wordsLord Roberts has allowed the German ambulance corps from Jacobsdal to go to the assistance of Cronje’s wounded. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Boers admit that their casualties number 600. ...
Article : 11 wordsThe Times declares that the Presence AT Capetown of 5000 prisoners will be a source of danger. It urges that the captives be sent to saint Helena. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe War Office has received the following brief report from General Buller. “Enemy’s main position captured. Sixty prisoners taken.” ...
Article : 29 wordsOn Sunday last General Clements, with detachments of Inniskillings, Dragoons Artillery, and Australians, the latter being under the immediate ...
Article : 56 wordsJoubert, the Boer Commandant General, is moving his stores and ammunition across the Klip River, near Ladysmith. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is believed that during Cronje’s retreat from Magersfontein many of the Freestaters deserted and returned to their farms. ...
Article : 25 wordsSaner, the Commissioner of Railways for Cape Colony, has stopped the pay of their railway employees who are serving as volunteers at the front. ...
Article : 29 wordsAt a committee meeting of the W.A. Turf Club on Monday the appeal [?] S. [?]. Linthorne against the decision of the Geraldton stewards in disqualifying ...
Article : 136 wordsBrigadier General Brabant, commanding the regiment of Colonial Irregular horse, has occupied Jamestown town and captured all the enemy’s ...
Article : 53 wordsThe prisoners have proceeded to Capetown formed as commandos under their own officers. ...
Article : 17 wordsMartin, of Adelaide, has received a lieutenant’s commission in the Manchester Regiment, Colonel Boynns, an Australian ...
Article : 31 wordsThe British have re-occupied Barkly East, in North-East Cape Colony. ...
Article : 14 wordsLord Roberts, in a later despatch to the War Office, describes the Canadians final rush at Koodoosrand as “ a gallant deed, worthy of our colonial ...
Article : 31 wordsAn official despatch was received this morning at the War Office, announcing that Cronje the Boer General, had, with his entire force, unconditionally ...
Article : 36 wordsIt has transpired that Colonel Peterson, a Queenslander, was the first to enter Kimberley. ...
Article : 21 wordsLondon is radiant as a result of Cronje’s surrender. The excitement the War Office, Mansion douse and Stock Exchange yesterday was intense. ...
Article : 73 wordsA Duban despatch states that Sir George White on Monday last made a sortie from Lady smith, thus co-operating with Buller’s advance guard, which ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Canadian contingent, forming part of Lord Roberts’ army at Koodoosrand, have sustained 20 additional ...
Article : 20 wordsA Landrost has been set up by the Boers at Lady Grey, in Aliwal North, in the northern district of Cape Colony, being apparently tired of the ...
Article : 64 wordsPresident Kruger has reopened the Johannesburg branch of Robinson’s Banking Company, and has restored all the cash and securities that were ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is now revealed that Buller’s object in assaulting Spion Kop was to relieve Warren, who was being hard pressed by the enemy. ...
Article : 30 wordsNews of Cronje’s surrender has created considerable excitement on the Continent. ...
Article : 82 wordsYesterday Father O'Gornan, late of Kalgoorlie, and Mr. Kirwan, delegates from the W.A. Goldfields Separation League, called on the Colonial Office. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe eighth division of the army, numbering 10,500 troops, will sail next week. ...
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