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Advertising : 1,321 wordsLONDON, December 25, 3.30 p.m.—The "Times" says that no important movement of the British forces will be made until transports and reinforcement enable commanders to move freely from ...
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Advertising : 161 wordsLONDON, December 24.—The whole of the country northwards from Stormberg has risen and gone over to the Boer cause. The farms of the loyalists have been seized, and the crops sold. ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, December 25.—The Khedive has re-corded his warm appreciation of Lord Kitchener's services aa Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, and ex-pressed, regret at the severance of his connection ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, December 25.—A railway pioneer corps of 1000 Uitlanders and others is being organised at Capetown. The remainder of the railway reservists and ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, December 24.—It has been decided to dispatch, another British cavalry regiment and 2000 native cavalry horses to South Africa from India. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe authorities have decided to send a Sydney detective to Mudgee to assist in the task of unravelling the mystery which surrounds the supposed murder of a miner at Rats Castle, near ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, December 24.—The "Spectator" advocates the mobilising of the navy, the formation of a territorial army of 100,000 men who have seen service, and large purchases of artillery with ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDON, December 25, 3.31 p.m.—The hospital ship Maine, fitted out by American ladies, has sailed for Capetown. ...
Article : 23 words"I'm not guilty, it's my first offence; "what's the charge Give me another chance." That is how matters were mixed up with one young lady at the Central Police Court this morning. ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, December 23, 3 p.m.—The corps of marksmen being raised by the Lord Mayor of London has been increased from 1000 to 1400, of whom 600 will be mounted. ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, December 25.—Colonel John Hay, the United States Secretary of State, is making inquiries as to the seizure by the British authorities of vessels in Delagoa Bay, laden with ...
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Advertising : 24 wordsLONDON, December 25.—There are 20,000 Boers at Magersfontein, and the trenches have been doubled. The enemy's front now covers a distance of 20 miles. ...
Article : 37 wordsThere was the usual holiday attendance of in-ebriates, but somewhat smaller than generally is the case, at the Water Police Court this morning. Nominal peralties were imposed. ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, December 24.—The county of Lanca shire has decided to equip a volunteer battalion of 1000 men similar to that being raised in London at the instance of the Lord Mayor. ...
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Advertising : 353 wordsLONDON, December 35, 3.30 p.m.—A third of the British soldiers who were wounded at Magersfontein have recovered, and rejoined the forces at the front. ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, December 24.—Lord Chesham, who was formerly a captain in the 16th Lancers, has enrolled a yeomanry force of 8000 for service in South Africa. ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, December 25, 3.30 p.m.—The 1st battalion (formerly the 40th—Second Somersetshire— Regiment) of the South Lancashire Regiment has arrived at Durban. ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, December 25.—Major-General J. D. P. French's force shelled the enemy near Naauw-poort on the 19th instant. The Major-General, after the action, compli ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, December 23.—The Earl of Lonsdale, Lord Harris, the Earl of Dudley, the Earl of Haddington, and Mr. Victor Cavendish, M.P. for Derbyshire West (heir to the Duke of Devonshire), are ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDON, December 25, 3.30 p.m.—The War Office has completed preparations for the mobilis-ing of an eighth division of the army corps. The dispatch of the Seventh Division, which is ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, December 25.—Canada proposes to mobilise 5000 men in readiness for emergencies in South Africa. ...
Article : 21 wordsLONDON, December 25, 3.30 p.m.—The Duke of Connaught asked to be attached to the staff of Lord Roberts in any capacity. Lord Roberts was agreeable to this course, but ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, December 25.—Bloemfontein is said to be indefensible, and the Orange Free State capital is likely to be transferred to Winburg, about 65 miles to the north-east. ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, December 23.—Mr. Seddon, the New Zealand Premier, has accepted the offer of Sir W. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Company, Limited, the famous gun manufacturers, etc., of Elswick, ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, December 25, 3.30 p.m.—The Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild has volunteered for the front. (The Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild is the eld ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, December 23.—The "Times" says the prompt, genuine, and substantial sympathy of Canada and the Australasian colonies is a. set-off against the calamities at the Cape. ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, December 23, 3 p.m—Further details of the fighting at the Tugela River reveal conspi-cuous gallantry on the part of all arms. The men were subjected to a withering fire from ...
Article : 288 wordsLONDON, December 25, 3.30 p.m.—General Schalk Burger, in command of the Boers before Ladysmith, told a British officer that the Boers would fight to the last, though he knew Great ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, December 23.—The Foreign Office has issued a warning that all Britishers and resi-dent foreigners trading with the Boer Republics are liable to heavy punishment. ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, December 25.—Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal Plenipotentiary in Europe, stated in the course of an interview that the Boers would not accept mediation unless it were on the basis of ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, December 23.—Lieutenant Winston Churchill, the special correspondent of the "Morn-ing Post," who was a second time taken prison-er by the Boers, has again escaped, and has ar- ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, December 24.—The Boers are short of ammunition for their Creusot guns. ...
Article : 18 wordsLONDON, December 23, 3 p.m.—Mr. P. B. Burgoyne, the well-known Australian vigneron, has presented 100 dozen bottles of Tintara wine to the hospital ship Maine. ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, December 24.—A sortie from Lady-Bmith against the enemy was made last Mon-day. Six British were killed and 15 wounded. ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, December 23, 3 p.m.—Cardinal Vau-ghan, Archbishop of Westminster, has directed public united supplication to be made in all the Roman Catholic places of worship for the speedy ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, December 23.—Half of the division under Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren will reinforce General Buller at Estcourt. The Second Battalion (formerly the 54th West ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, December 24.—Lord Roberts left London on Saturday for Southampton, en route for Capetawn. He was accorded an ovation by the public at Waterloo Station, the terminus of the ...
Article : 96 wordsLONDON, December 25.—Colonel Long, who commanded the artillery at Tugela, referring to the abandoning of the guns, explains that he expected further-supplies of ammunition would have ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Tue 26 Dec 1899, Page 5
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