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  4. The Chinese Crisis

    A letter from Sir Claude Macdonald, British Ambassador at Pekin, dated July 6, has just reached Shanghal. He initmated that three Legations were ...

    Article : 376 words
  5. THE BOER WAR.

    Some important developments have taken place during tho past week tending to hasten the conclusion of the war. It is officially announced that the Boers ...

    Article : 153 words
  6. ROBERTS v. WEISS.

    FOR some time past Rumor has had it that the great J.R., "the greatest Englishman" in his particular line that the world has seen, has been going off in this ...

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  7. THE ALLIED FORCES.

    There are eight British warships at the month of the Yang-tse-Klang, and 4000 Indian troops are stationed at Shanghai. There are six Indian regiments at ...

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  8. ESCAPED IN A COFFIN.

    An Italian priest is said to have made a sensational escape from Pekin in a coffin. ...

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  9. POWERS TAKING SIDES—BRITAIN AND AMERICA OUT-VOTED.

    There is a deal of public uneasiness in Great Britain on account of the excessive purchases of British smokeless steam coal by France and China. ...

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  10. BADEN-POWELL BESIEGED AT RUSTENBURG.

    Commandant De la Rey is still besieging Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell in Rustenburg, in the Western Transvaal. A relict column, commanded by ...

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  11. CHINESE TRICKERY EXPOSED

    An imperial Chinese edict, in reply to Ll Hung Chaug's memorial to the authorities to escort the Ministers to Tien-tsin, consider that it would be wiser to keep the ...

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  12. BOERS THREATEN POTCHEFSTROOM—KLERKSDORP EVACUATED.

    A force of 1000 Boers is trying to surround Potchefstroom, in the Southern Transvaal. Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen is now ...

    Article : 59 words
  13. PREPARING FOR WAR.

    The Viceroys in the provinces in the Valley of the Yang-tse-Kiang (the British sphere of influence), while professing the most peaceful intentions, are energetically ...

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  14. SOUTH AUSTRALIANS FIGHT WELL.

    While reconnoitring near Pinaarspoort, a force of South Australians had a hot skirmish with too Boers. The South Australians used a Colt machine gun, and the ...

    Article : 113 words
  15. COMMISSIONS FOR AUSTRALIANS.

    Corporal H. J. Kirkpatrick, of Mudgee, belonging to the First Australian Horse, and Private B. Armytage, of the Victorian forces, have each been granted a ...

    Article : 63 words
  16. Incidents of the Roberts—Weiss Billiard Contest.

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  17. CAPTURE OF WELSH FUSILIERS.

    Near Honningspruit the Boers destroyed the railway and telegraph lines, and captured a supply train and 100 Welsh Fusiliers. ...

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  18. PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.

    The Imperial Government proposes to ask Parliament to vote small pensions to all widows and orphans of soldiers killed in action or dying or wounds or disease ...

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  19. OCCUPATION OF FOURIESBURG—GENERAL PRINSLOO AND 5000 BOERS CAPTURED.

    Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter has occupied Fouriesburg. He found Mrs. Steyn, wife of ex-President Steyn, in the town. ...

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  20. HOW THE BUSHMEN FOUGHT.

    Three hundred New South Wales Bushmen, assisted by a Rhodesian force, attacked a large body of Boers at Selous River, and, alter severe fighting, dispersed the Boers ...

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  21. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    Captain Conwyn Mansel Jones, of the Prince of Wales' Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), has been awarded tho Victoria Cross for valer at the Tugela. ...

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  22. SURRENDER OF PIET. DE WET—200 DOERS TAKEN AT FICKSBURG.

    Mr. P. de Wet, a brother of Commandant Christian de Wet, has surrendered to the British at Kroonstad. Two hundred Boers have surrendered to ...

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  23. COST OF THE WAR—A GARRISON OF 30,000.

    In Committee of Supply in the House of Commons the Supplementary War Estimates on account of South Africa and China, amounting to £11,500,000 were ...

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  24. RAISING MORE TROOPS AT THE CAPE.

    In anticipation of reinforcements being sent to China, additional Colonial forces numbering 10,000 men, are being raised in Cape Colony. ...

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  25. THE FUSILIERS LIBERATED.

    Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter, when he occupied Fouriesburg, on the eastern border of the Orange River Colony, liberated the 100 British soldiers captured near ...

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  26. A BRUSH AT PALMEITFONTEIN.

    Major-General R. G. Broadwood, commanding the 2nd Cavalry Brigade and some Mounted Infantry companies, had a sharp encounter with a commando of 2000 Boers, ...

    Article : 149 words
  27. A MAGISTRATE PUNISHED.

    Mr. Lerorix, the magistrate at vredetort, in the north of the Orange River Colony, was reinstated in the position by the British when they occupied tho district. ...

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  28. BOTHA'S FOLLOWING SCATTERED AND STARVING.

    General Botha, the Boer Commander-in Chief, is at Machadodorp, which was proclaimed the capital of the Transvaal, with 100 men. ...

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  29. THE CAPE MINISTRY.

    The Premier, Sir J. Gordon sprigg, obtained an incidental, majority of four for the Bill. which he Introduced into the Cape Colony House of Assembly relating to high ...

    Article : 56 words
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  31. AUSTRALASIAN CASUALTIES.

    Wounded Severely: Sergeant L. H. Nicholson, Bush Contingent. Killed: Privates A. T. Bennett, G. W. Biddle, and J. Palazzi. Captured at Rustenburg: ...

    Article : 424 words
  32. A WHOLE WEEK OF MASSACRES—ALL CHRISTIANS TO BE KILLED.

    Nine members of the China Inland Mission were massacred in the province of Che-Kiang. On the 8th inst. a horde of Boxers ...

    Article : 207 words
  33. CHRISTIANS BURNT IN A CATHEDRAL.

    Details in connection with the native Manchurian and Chinese outrages upon Christians at Mukden, the capital city of Manchuria, show that the troops pretended ...

    Article : 91 words
  34. HOW THE POWERS VIEWED THE SITUATION—RUSSIA AND GERMANY LAGGED BEHIND.

    A Blue Book, issued by the British Foreign Office, relates what led up to the crisis in China, and it is shown that Lord Salisbury correctly gauged the gravity of ...

    Article : 233 words
  35. HOPE TELLS A FLATTERING TALE.

    A Japanese cipher message from Pekin, dated, July 19, stated that the Japanese Legation was able to hold out till the end of July. ...

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  36. THE KAISER'S STRAIGHT TIP—"NO QUARTER."

    The Kaiser, in bidding farewell on Friday to the German troops, who were embarking at Bremerhaven, for China, concluded his address by saying:— ...

    Article : 110 words
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