It is stated that the Boers have run short of the ammunition for the heavy French guns made by the firm of Schneider at Creuzot. ...
Article : 31 wordsAmongst the subscriptions received to assist to its formation are £5,000 from the Goldsmiths' Company, £2,500 from the Merchant Taylors' Company, and £2,500 ...
Article : 386 wordsIt is announced that three Russian officers are about to take active service with the Boers. ...
Article : 22 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, who has been appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa, left Southampton on December 23 by the Dunottar ...
Article : 115 wordsThe seventh division, which is under the command of Major-General G. Tucker, has been mobilised, and the first transport —carrying a portion of the troops—will ...
Article : 35 wordsLast month the Customs authorities at Gape Town seized on board a vessel that had recently arrived there a complete plant for Marconi's method of wireless ...
Article : 70 wordsDuring the bombardment of Ladysmith [?] by the Boers on the 22nd December a [?] shell fell among tbe Gloucestershire Regiment and killed eight men. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe preparations have been completed tor the mobilisation of an eighth army division, and it will be despatched to the Cape as early as possible. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe officers and soldiers under Sir George White at Ladysmith erected a Christmas tree, and gave a treat to 200 children. The force at Ladysmith has two ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of "The Times" states that the reverses sustained by Great Britain have caused considerable nervousness among foreign diplomatists. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe War Office has accepted the offer of a corps of rough-riders from Canada, and has also asked that another similar corps be sent instead of one of the three batteries ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Boers bombarded Mafeking vigorously on the 21st December. Colonel Baden-Powell briskly replied, silencing the enemy. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Khedive has placed on record his warm appreciation of the services rendered by Lord Kitchener to Egypt. He expresses regret at the severance of Lord ...
Article : 48 wordsOwing to the sympathy openly and secretly expressed for the Boers by the Dutch residents in Cape Colony, loyalist citizens in that country are advocating the ...
Article : 38 wordsHis Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, third son of Her Majesty the Queen, who is a general in the army, being desirous of serving in the war, asked that ...
Article : 75 wordsThe British newspapers complain bitterly of the quality of the artillery used by the troops in South Africa. They declare that it is antiquated ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Nizam of Hyderabad and the Maharajah of Gwalior have offered to supply the Imperial Government with troops and money to carry on the war against the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Foreign Office has issued a proclamation warning British subjects, residents of the Cape Colony and Natal, and foreigners, that all trading with the two Boer ...
Article : 52 wordsNews has been received from Kuruman, a mission station in Bechuanaland, about 90 miles south-west of Vryburg. Last month the town was attached by ...
Article : 110 wordsCape Town authorities estimate that the total strength of the enemy is 65,000. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe South Australian wine depot, which was established a year or two ago by the South Australian Government, for the sale of wines made in that colony, has presented ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Schalk Burger, a member of the Transvaal Executive Council, who succeeded General Joubert in the command of the Boer forces in Natal when Joubert ...
Article : 76 wordsMessrs. P. B. Burgoyne and Co., importers of Australian wines, London, have presented 100 dozen of Tintara (South Australian) wine to the ship Maine, which ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsMr. Herbert Gladstone says that the patriotism and public spirit shown by the volunteers has saved the country from a panic. He declares that it is the duty of ...
Article : 79 wordsA statement has been published which shows that some time before the Jameson raid the Transvaal Boers had hostile designs against the British, and also that the ...
Article : 101 wordsAt Cape Town a corps is being formed to be called "Warren's Irregular Horse," which will operate with the forces under the command of Sir Charles Warren. ...
Article : 123 wordsTwo of the New South Wales Lancers showed great bravery in carrying a wounded English officer from the field of battle under a heavy fire from the enemy. ...
Article : 83 wordsCardinal Vaughan, archbishop of Westminster, has taken prominent action in connection with the war. He has directed the Catholic churches in ...
Article : 44 wordsThe question of responsibility for not having sent troops to South Africa months ago is now creating much discussion in England. ...
Article : 240 wordsLieut.-Colonel G. M. Bullock, of the 2nd battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, together with three officers of his battalion and 40 men, were on the evening of the ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is announced that Count Gourko, the famous Russian general, and late Governor-General of Poland, who greatly distinguished himself in the Russo-Turkish war ...
Article : 50 wordsIt was originally arranged that Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener should meet at Madeira on their way from London and Khartoum respectively to South Africa. ...
Article : 123 wordsOrders have been given that 100 skilled line-repairers at Crewe, in Cheshire, the central manufacturing depot of the London and North-Western railway, are to ...
Article : 74 wordsAdvices received from Natal state that horse sickness has made its appearance in the colony. [Sir Charles Holled-Smith, late military ...
Article : 71 wordsThe latest particulars reveal conspicuous gallantry on the part of all arms—infantry, cavalry, and artillery—under a withering fire from the Boers. ...
Article : 73 wordsA railway pioneer corps of 1,000 men, recruited from the Uitlanders from the Transvaal and others, is being organised in Cape Town. ...
Article : 26 wordsSeveral weeks ago General Joubert, the commandant-general of the Boer forces, was obliged through illness to relinquish his duties in Natal to Commandant Schalk ...
Article : 53 wordsThe account given by Lieutenant Churchill shows that he had a highly adventurous journey, and narrowly escaped detection by the Transvaal authorities. ...
Article : 212 wordsIn the course of an interview with a press representative, Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Transvaal envoy at Brussels, has given an indication of the terms that will be accepted ...
Article : 102 wordsThen the enemy's sharpshooters opened fire upon the British infantry and the artillery, consisting of the 14th and 56th field batteries and six naval quick-firing ...
Article : 229 wordsNo anxiety is felt as to the safety of Kimberley, which has been besieged for over two months by a strong Boer force. Colonel Kekewich, who commands the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe War Office authorities have chartered a fresh batch of vessels for the transport of troops to South Africa. The names of the vessels engaged are— ...
Article : 83 wordsColonel John Hay, the American Secretary of State, has ordered an inquiry to be made into the seizure by British warships at Delagoa Bay of several vessels ...
Article : 71 wordsThe war correspondent of "The Times" at Sterkstroom makes an important statement respecting the disaffection prevailing among the Dutch in the Cape Colony. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe anxiety that was felt with regard to the safety of Ladysmith has been greatly relieved by the receipt of a message from Sir George White by Sir Redvers Buller. ...
Article : 50 wordsIn order to strengthen the cavalry arm of the service in South Africa, arrangements have been made with the Indian Government to send a regiment of cavalry ...
Article : 45 wordsThe transports, which are arriving almost daily at Cape Town, are landing thousands of mules for the British army in South Africa. ...
Article : 48 wordsA warm eulogy on the Australian and Canadian troops has been paid by the war correspondent of "The Times" who is with Lord Methuen's forces on the Modder ...
Article : 142 wordsNot only has Colonel Baden-Powell's force offered a determined resistance to the Boer attacks, but the women and boys in the town have taken part in the defence ...
Article : 49 wordsA factor which largely contributed to Sir Redvers Buffer's reverse was the smokeless powder used by the Boers. The effect of this powder was to render it ...
Article : 44 wordsThe revolt of the Dutch farmers in the districts of the Cape Colony south of the Orange River is extending. A general rising has taken place in the ...
Article : 44 wordsGreat efforts are being made by the War Office to obtain more powerful artillery for South Africa. Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and ...
Article : 62 wordsA Reuter's telegram states that the Boers admit that if the British artillery fire had been continued they would have been compelled to retreat from the strong ...
Article : 40 wordsSir W. F. Gatacre, who has found his movements greatly hampered by the disloyal Dutch farmers, to enable him the better to deal with the disaffection and ...
Article : 88 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 6 wordsA shocking instance of Boer brutality to prisoners is reported. At the reverse sustained by Sir W. F. Gatacre, near Stormberg, a fornight ago, ...
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The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), Sat 30 Dec 1899, Page 37
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