Cronje asked for a twenty-four hours' armistice to bury his dead Kitchener replied No, not a minute. fight or surrender unconditionally." Cronje ...
Article : 57 wordsBuller reports that owing to the continuous fighting it is impossible to give a list of the casnalties. ...
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Advertising : 2,091 wordsKruger claims that the British have not petered the line of communication with Cronje. ...
Article : 16 wordsDr. Leyds reports that Cronje has broken through the British lines. ...
Article : 14 wordsAdvices from Pretoria report that is occurring around Petrusville and also near Kimberley, but the result is still doubtful. ...
Article : 23 wordsKitchener then received a second issessage, suggesting a surrender. He invited Cronje to the British camp to arrange terms. ...
Article : 24 wordsAfter spending two days in careful inquiry on the spot, a London correspondent has no hesitation in saying that not only is the Schneider company busily ...
Article : 229 wordsThe British captured 100 Boers west of Koodoosrand. ...
Article : 13 wordsCronje then declared there had been a mistake, and that he had no intention of surrendering. ...
Article : 19 wordsMethucn has been appointed British Ambassador for the Kimberley district. ...
Article : 11 wordsRoberts then decided to effectively crush all resistance, and directed a terrific artillery fire enfilading the river between the banks. ...
Article : 24 wordsThere is as yet no general retirement of the besiegers from Ladvsmith, although miles of Boer waggons are to be seen trcking on the Dundee road ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Boors have an abundance of water, but it is difficult to get food in the trenches. ...
Article : 24 wordsRoberts has notified that owing to the enemy's frequent violation of the while flag, the British are not compelled to accept it as a signal of truce during ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Boers are hammed in completely and there is no possibility of escape. ...
Article : 15 wordsThere are 76 British wounded at Klip Kraal, including Trooper Flint, of Sydney. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe British losses on Sunday were 1100. ...
Article : 11 wordsBuller's guns have been taken across the Tugela. ...
Article : 10 wordsPrivate Oram, of the Sydney Medical Corpts has died from fever. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Natal Brigade has advanced towards Lndyamith. ...
Article : 11 wordsCronje's persistency in holding his position is attributed to a preconcerted plan to engngo the attention of the British forces, thus enabling the Boers ...
Article : 45 wordsA private in the Gordon Highlimders, in a letter to his sister about the Magersfontein battle, says:—I will never forget it. Men on both sides ...
Article : 281 wordsOn Tuesday the British occupied the north and south banks and poured in a devastating fire, with lyddite. ...
Article : 23 wordsDeserters describe Cronje's grim determination as the over mastering wishes of his followers, who arn fighting with frenzied and tragic courage. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe recrudescence of lighting at the Tugela is interpreted to mean that the Beer plan of campaign has practically collapsed. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Beer laager is in a mass of flames. ...
Article : 15 wordsTwo armed German spies have been captured at Ladysmith, wearing the red cross. ...
Article : 16 wordsCronje's wife pleaded with him to capitulate to savo the lives of his men, but he remained deaf to her entreaties. ...
Article : 30 wordsOne hundred German recruits and 150 men of mixed nationalities have landed at Delagoa Bay for the Transvaal. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe British have exhausted a terrible number of horses. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe Boers claim that Buller was repulsed on Thursday with heavy loss. ...
Article : 16 wordsFrench is scouring the country towards Blomfontoin, and has destroyed the approaching Boer reinforcement piecemeal. ...
Article : 19 wordsAmong Lord Huberts' prisoners is Count Sternberg, of Austria, and also a German, Baron Von Dam, the chief of the Boer Artillery under Joubert. ...
Article : 30 wordsAt Paarderberg district on Sunday 146 of the rank and file were killed, including 85 of the Senforth Highlands ers, and Lieutenant Grieve, of New ...
Article : 36 wordsA letter has been found in the deserted trenches at Hlangware Hill. It stated that the Boers' losses in the Spion Kop engagement totalled 3000 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 wordsIt is reported that Ladysmith has been relieved. ...
Article : 12 wordsBullor had there officers killed on Thusday, including Lientonant Caths cart. Fourteen others were wounded. ...
Article : 18 wordsBuller is fighting cautiously and has occupied Fort Wylie. He lost 12 killed, and 102 wounded on Tuesday and Wednesday. ...
Article : 31 wordsA Reuter's Telegram from New York, dated recently, says:—Mr. Cols son, former Republican momber of the Congress, to-day chot and killed Mr. ...
Article : 272 wordsFighting was proceeding on Thursday, and in the vicinity of Prestoro White's cannonading was heard. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe British Estimates includo 27 and a half millions for the navy, two new battleships, six first-class cruisers, and 4000 more men. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn the Central Criminal Court, London, the editor of the "Wimbledon and District Gazotte," Christopher Edon, on bail, was indicted for send, ...
Article : 294 wordsThe navy is in rendiness for immediate mobilisation if necessary. ...
Article : 15 wordsTwo thousand of the Afridi men have offered to help Roberts. ...
Article : 12 wordsLieutenant Wall, of Sydney, has been given a liontenacy in the Imperial Yeomanry. ...
Article : 15 wordsIt is reported that the Czar indignantly rejected Kuroopotkin's plan to seize Herat. The latter said everything was propared, and England's hands were fied ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Scotsman says:—President Kruger's circular letter to the General of commandees appears to be a curiously characteristic document. Its ...
Article : 284 wordsTwo thousand Boers still hover round the British position north of Cronja's langer. ...
Article : 17 words"Shelling was continued on Thursday and the cordon is being drawn lighter. ...
Article : 16 wordsGeneral Macdonald was only slightly wounded in the fect at Koodoosrand. ...
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