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  2. ROBERTS'S OPERATIONS.

    Amongst the prisoners is an Austrian officer, named Albrecht, who was the commander of the Free State artillery. This officer has told Lord Roberts that until his ...

    Article : 85 words
  3. GENERAL NOTES.

    After the Boers-were driven from Knilfontein Major-General Clements's column, with which the Australians under Colonel Price are attached, pushed on to ...

    Article : 103 words
  4. CARRYING PIETERS.

    Approaching Pieters Hill is a long ridge, or nek, which offered great capabilities for defence. The nek is covered with boulders, while entrenchments had been thrown up ...

    Article : 293 words
  5. ON THE LIMPOPO.

    Since the commencement of the war the occupation by the Boera of Grocodile Pools, on the Limpopo River, has necessitated the maintenance of a strong force under ...

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  6. THE ROAD CLEAR.

    After evacuating Grower's Kloof Kop Uie Boers were driven from Onderbroek is Pit' Charles Warren; and this success, Joeether with Sir Redvers Buller'n victory ...

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  7. ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE.

    While the Boer prisoners captured at the Koedoe's Rand were being taken to Cape Town several of them attempted to escape. ...

    Article : 51 words
  8. CANADIANS PRAISED.

    Lord Koberts has again highly complimented the Canadian troops for their gallantry in the fighting at Koedoe's Rana. It has transpired that one company of ...

    Article : 52 words
  9. NEW SOUTH WALES CASUALTIES.

    Official despatches received at the War Office contain announcements of a number of casualties to different branches of the New South Wales forces. ...

    Article : 117 words
  10. MARTIAL LAW EXTENDED.

    Martial law has been proclaimed at Britstown (27 miles from De Aar), Prieska (100 miles below Orange River Station), Kenhardt (on the Hartebeest River), and ...

    Article : 34 words
  11. SYDNEY MEDICAL CORPS.

    During the fighting at Koedoe's Rand the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, under Colonel W. D. C. Williams (surgeon) and Major T. H. Fiaschi (surgeon), did ...

    Article : 147 words
  12. CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE QUEEN.

    Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince of Wales despatched messages to Sir Rfldvers Buller and Sir George White. ...

    Article : 24 words
  13. PROPOSED DEPUTATION TO AUSTRALIA.

    It Is Etated that the Afrikander Bond proposes to send a deputation to Canada and Australia to urge those colonies to advocate the maintenance of the ...

    Article : 38 words
  14. PARADE OF BULLER'S TROOPS.

    To celebrate the relief of Ladysmith a general parade of the troops belonging to the relief column was ordered by Sir Kedvers Buller. ...

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  15. THE LATE MAJOR EDDY.

    The body of Major Eddy, commander of the Victorian forces, who was killed, lias been recovered, and it wae interred with due honours, a chaplain, reading the burial ...

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  16. BOER MISDOINGS.

    Grave complaints have again been in axle that the Boers failed to recognise the usages of civilised warfare. Not only did they employ explosive bullets, but they ...

    Article : 65 words
  17. CRONJE AT SIMONS BAY.

    General Cronje, "who, after Burrendering to Lord Roberts at Koedoe's Rand,-was sent to Cape Town in charge of Major-General Pretyman, has been placed on board ...

    Article : 50 words
  18. NATAL CLEAlt OF THE ENEMY.

    A very satisfactory report baa been received by the War Office from Sir Redvers Buller. Although it ie only a week since Sir ...

    Article : 58 words
  19. BANQUET TO LORD BOBERTS.

    Mr. Cecil Rhodes, who was at KJmberley throughout the siege, has 6ignalised the relief of the town in ws usual munificent manner. ...

    Article : 43 words
  20. LIST OF CASUALTIES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 words
  21. VICTORIANS AND TASMANIAXS.

    A very successful reconnaissance has been carried out by 200 Victorians and Tasmanians, under the command of Captain Donald Halley Jenkins, of the ...

    Article : 173 words
  22. FAMINE PRICES AT AUCTION.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 words
  23. A CURIOUS INCIDENT.

    While the Cape Mounted Rifles, belonging to Major Maxwell's force, attempted to storai the Boer breastworks at Dordrecht, a curious incident occurred. ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. ROBERTS'S PROCLAMATION.

    Prisoners who have been captured by the British state that many of those who are fighting in the ranks of the Boers are very eager to obtain copies of Lord Roberts's ...

    Article : 59 words
  25. ROBERTS'S PROCLAMATION".

    The proclamation issued a short time ago by Lord Roberts to the people of the Orange Free State seems already to have had a salutary effect. ...

    Article : 94 words
  26. TYPHOID PREVALENT.

    Reports from Ladysmith give a* dismal account of the state of health in the town. Owing in a great measure to the tainted water supply during the siege, which was ...

    Article : 82 words
  27. THE FOREIGN PRESS.

    The recent British successes in South Africa bave produced a mai'ked change in the attitude of the foreign press towards Great Britain. ...

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  28. A LEYDS ANNOUNCEMENT.

    Dr. Leyds declares that while President Ivruger desires peace he will never sacrifice the independence of his country. At the same time, says Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal ...

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  29. PRESENT FROM LADY HAMPDEN.

    A generous present has been sent to the New South Wales Lancers and the-Australian Horse by Viscountess Hampden, wife of Viscount Hampden, late Governor ...

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  30. BOERS OUTFLANKED.

    An official despatch has been received by] the War Office from Lord Roberts, announcing the driving back of the Boers. The Boer entrenchements, says the ...

    Article : 424 words
  31. BOER TKOOP SMASHED UP.

    Five days before being relieved, the Ladysinitli garrison fired on a small oody of Boers escaping from Mount Iaumbulwhana. ...

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  32. DAMAGE BY BOERS.

    Much damage has been done b.v the Boers to the railway line connecting Ladysmith with the north. When they retired from Ladysmith to the Biggarsberg ...

    Article : 115 words
  33. TRANSVAAL JOBBERY.

    One of the last acts of the Transvaal Volksraad prior to the outbreak of war was to pass a measure providing pensions for President Kruger and the Transvaal ...

    Article : 66 words
  34. MAJOR EDDY.

    News has been received from the. front that the body of Major Eddy, late commander of the first Victoi'ian contingent, who was killed during the fighting at Reudsburg ...

    Article : 60 words
  35. A PARTING BLOW.

    Directly it was recognised that the Boer had evacuated Mount Isambulwhana, and: tbat tlieir retreat was in progress. Sir George White sent 2,000 men of the ...

    Article : 92 words
  36. ESCAPE FROM PRETORIA.

    The escape is announced of three British officers from Pretoria. It appears that a stoppage of the electric light occurred at the Model School, ...

    Article : 51 words
  37. GRIQUALAND WEST.

    After the evacuation of Prieska, on the Orange Kiver, about 100 miles west of Hopetown, by Rimington's Scouts and the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, at the end ...

    Article : 120 words
  38. CASUALTY LIST.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 149 words
  39. WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

    The hundred prisoners were captured, the majority being Hollanders. Two women were found, in the trenches, one 70 years of age being dead: the other, 80 ...

    Article : 98 words
  40. SIR WILLIAM MACCORMAC.

    Sir William MacCormac, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, has sailed from Cape Town for England. He went out to inspect the ambulance arrangements. ...

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  41. BOER PRISONERS GRATEFUL.

    Both General Cronje and Mr. J. M. A. Wolmerans, a member of the Transvaal Executive Council, have thanked Lord Roberts for the considerate manner in ...

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  42. TRANSVAAL INVADED.

    The first British force to invade the Transvaal is the small column that has been operating in Zululand, under Major G. N. Prendergast, of the King's Royal ...

    Article : 87 words
  43. STORMBERG EVACUATED.

    After opposing Sir W. F. Gataere's ad- 1 vance for four months, the Boers have at last been compelled to evacuate Stormk^rfie first news of Sir W. F. Gatacre's ...

    Article : 133 words
  44. LIST OF NATAL DUTCH.

    When the tents that were abandoned by the Uaere in their flight from Mount Isutttbuhvhana were examined by the 'British military authorities, a valuable discovery ...

    Article : 70 words
  45. THE BOER PRESIDENTS.

    President Kruger, who recently paid a, visit to Bloemfontein, has returned to Pretoria.- During his stay at the Free State capital he issued a fervid appeal to the ...

    Article : 125 words
  46. DEMONSTRATIONS IN ENGLAND.

    The news of the relief of the beleaguered garrison provoked a remarkable demonstration of rejoicing throughout the empire. An intense feeling of relief was ...

    Article : 225 words
  47. MAFEKING TO BE RELIEVED.

    The latest news from Mafeking is dated February 19. Colonel Baden-Powell reported that on that date the Boers had adopted another ingenious ruse to protect ...

    Article : 108 words
  48. Advertising

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    Advertising : 97 words
  49. SUPPLIES NOW PLENTIFUL.

    In consequence of the capture of a British convoy at the Eiet River, when 200 waggons fell into the hands of the enemy, there'was for some days considerable ...

    Article : 85 words
  50. TO BE SENT TO ST. HELENA.

    Reports from Cape Town state that both Genegal Gronje, who, for the present, occopies the Admiral's ou&rters on the flagship Doris, at Simon Tonia, and the ...

    Article : 119 words
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