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  4. WRESTLERS AND WRESTLING IN JAPAN.

    If not actually the sport of Japan, wrestling is very nearly so. It dotes bade some 2000 years, when, to make a Japanese holiday, one strong man, called Sukune, kicked ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. THE BOER WAR.

    Further details came to hand towards the close of last week, throwing additional light on the reasons for the abandonment of Spion Kop. From these it is ...

    Article : 460 words
  6. COMMANDANT PRETORIOUS RELEASED.

    Field Marshal Lord Roberta, the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, has written to General Joubert, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, proffering the release of ...

    Article : 82 words
  7. BRITISH FLYING COLUMN.

    A British flying column has reached Northern. Zululand. It consists or experienced Colonial mounted troops and scouts, and has been sent out with the probable ...

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  8. HEAVY BOER LOSSES.

    Native deserters from the Boer camp report that five field cornets were killed in the fighting which took place on the Tugela River recently, and that the Boer ...

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  9. BOERS ACTIVE ON ZULULAND BORDER.

    The Boors have despatched a commando of a thousand men with three guns to V[?]yheld, in the south-east of the Transvaal, close to tho Zululand border. Crossing over ...

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  10. BULLER CONFIDENT.

    The "Dally Mall" correspondent at Capetown cabled that General Sir Redvers Buller an Monday last read to Sir Charles Warren's forces a message from the Queen ...

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  11. A TRAITOR SHOT.

    A corporal of irregulars has been shot by the British for shaking hands, with an acquaintance who was on the enemy's lines during the engagement at Spion Kop. ...

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  12. THE POSITION NEAR COLESBERG.

    Lieutenant-General French's column enclosed 7000 Boors in tho hills around Colesberg. The lack of naval guns is severely felt by the British. ...

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  13. LORD METHUEN REINFORCED.

    There are indications that the Sixth Seventh, and Eighth Army Corps Divisions, commanded respectively by Lieutenant-General T. Kelly-Kenny, Lieutenant-General C. Tucker, C.B., and Major-General Sir ...

    Article : 108 words
  14. THE WESTERN COLUMN.

    Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-chief in South Africa, has recalled to Capetown two transports conveying artillery and cavalry which had been ...

    Article : 137 words
  15. NEW ZEALANDERS VICTORIOUS.

    The Now Zealanders, Rimington's Scouts, arid n squadron of the Life Guards swept the kills on Lieutenant-General J.D.P. French's extreme right-in the ...

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  16. THE RIGHT OF SEARCH.

    The Hon. W. St. John Brodrick, M.P. for Guildford one of the Parliamentary Secretaries to the Foreign Office speaking in the House of Commons stated that Great ...

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  17. A CLEVER TRAP FOR THE BOERS.

    A clever, and successful ruse has been devised by some of Lord Methucu's scouts for capturing Ostriches are tied to ropes on the hills by our men, who then hide themselves just over the birds, and concluding from their presence that no one is near, advance unsuspiciously a carefully set for them.—"Illustrated Mail." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  18. DEMONSTRATIONS OF SYMPATHY.

    The offer of General Riccit[?] Garb[?] to enrol several thousand volunteers far service with tho British in South Africa has been declined. ...

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  19. THE FORCES IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    In replying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. George Wyndbam, Under-Secretary for War, stated that by Che middle of February there would be 180,000 ...

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  20. BOER TRICKERY.

    Dr. Leyds (Transvaal Plenipotentiary to the European Powers), propagated false secret information which caused the seizure of the German steamer Bundesrath and ...

    Article : 147 words
  21. FOREIGNERS WITH THE BOERS.

    A Hanoverian-officer on the staff of M. Villebois-Marcull the French strategist now at Colesberg, declares that 10,000 soldiers trained in European armies and 300 ...

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  22. FROM VARIOUS POINTS.

    There squadrons of Lord Kitchener's Light Horse, recently formed and named after the hero or Khartoum, are ready for the front. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts is ...

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  23. THE AUSTRALIAN AUXILIARIES.

    In response to inquiries Colonel Hoad (Victoria), commanding tho Colonial troops at Enslin, has offered to transform his live companies into mounted troops. The offer ...

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  24. THE BUSH BRIGADE.

    "Nor in the parent isle alone Spring squadrons from the ground Canadian shore and Austral zone With Kindred cry resound: ...

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  25. SPEECH BY MR. GOSCHEN.

    Mr. Goschen First Lord of the Admiralty delivered a powerful and reassuring speech in the House of Commons a few nights since in the course of which he claimed ...

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  26. ARRIVAL OF "A" BATTERY.

    The steamer Warrigal with the New South Wales "A" Battery on board, arrived at Durban on the 2nd instant, and was ordered on to Capetown. ...

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  27. FRANCE AND GERMAN ANIMOSITY.

    The French newspapers assert that President Loubet has decorated M. Leandre, the artist who drew the recently published objectionable caricatures of the Queen. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  28. KIMBERLEY AND MAFEKING.

    Her Majesty the Queen has been touched and gratified by the recipt of a message from tho Mayor of Mafeking, dated January 27, intimating that that date was the ...

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  29. PROJECTED FLOODING OF LADYSMITH.

    Reports received from Delagoa Bay state that tho Boors are Bending huge quantities of timber and sandbags to dam the Klip, River with the object of flooding ...

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  30. THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH.

    Definite statements have reached Durban to the effect that General Sir Redvers Buller's column has crossed the Tugela. Some accounts allege that the forces have ...

    Article : 253 words
  31. EXPLOSION AT JOHANNESBURG.

    A Johannesburg refuged who reached Durban reported that an explosion took place at a large shell factory at Johannesburg on January 20, causing great loss of ...

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  33. BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS.

    Including the Eighth Division of tho Army Corps, which in mobilising, there are now 40,000 additional British troops afloat, or under orders for South Africa. ...

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  34. SUNDRY ITEMS.

    The employees of the Canadian Pacinc Railway Company have each contributed half a day's pay to the War Relief Fund. The total tints given amounts to £4000. The ...

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  36. WHAT KRUGER INTENDED.

    The "Dally Telegraph" states that had Ladysmith fallen on January 6, the date of the last attack, by the Boors, when the enemy was repulsed with heavy loss, ...

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