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  4. OUR AMERICAN LETTER

    After nearly fifteen rears of residence by the long wash of tho Pacific, the "Referee" Commissioner has pitchard his tent in Chicago, Ill. For the present I cannot say ...

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  5. THE CHINESE CRISIS.

    A refugee who reached Tion-tsin reports that 2000 Imperial troops massacred 15,000 Christian converts between Tien-tsin and Pekin. ...

    Article : 67 words
  6. COMMISSIONS FOR AUSTRALIANS.

    The following Australians have been granted commissions:— South Australia.—Messrs. F. W. Salmond and D. K. Tweedle, second lieutenants in ...

    Article : 99 words
  7. BARBAROUS WARFARE.

    Seventeen prisoners taken by Lieut.- General Ian Hamilton when he ejected the enemy from Mogailesberg, declare that the Boer authorities supplied them only with ...

    Article : 73 words
  8. THE BOER WAR

    The news from the scat or war in South Africa during the past week has been comparatively unimportant, though it includes several fresh instances of Boer treachery ...

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  9. DOERS CAPTURE AND BURN A PASSENGER TRAIN.

    A force of Boers derailed and burned a I train in the Orange River Colony at Honing Spruit though it was Hying the "Stars and Stripes," the American Consul-General ...

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  10. RETURNED INVALIDED.

    The White Star steamer Persic arrived at Adelaide from the Cape with 86 invalided Australians on board, including 43 for New South Wales, 16 Victorians, 12 ...

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  11. KRUGER'S PROMISES.

    Rueter's correspondent states that Gen. Louis Botha, the Boer Cornmander-in-Chief, and President Kruger have issued a proclamation stating that they will compensate. ...

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  12. RUSSIA SUCCEEDING IN MANCHURIA.

    The Russian troops stormed Sansing, on the Sungari River, in Manchuria. They captured 22 guns, including 14 Hotchkiss gans. ...

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  13. 4000 SURRENDERS EXPECTED—THE END APPROACHING.

    Lord Roberts reports that 1200 more Boors have surrendered to General Hunter, and that it is expected that the total surrenders will amount to 4000. ...

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  14. FIGHT AT FREDERICKSTAD—THE WHITE FLAG AGAIN.

    Commandant Liebeberg on July 31 sent a flag of truce demanding the surrender of Major-General H. L. Smith-Dorrien's force near Frederickstad, to the north of ...

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  15. BRITAIN AND THE YANG-TSZE VALLEY.

    There are 16 British warships aud four Japanese warships near Shanghai. Vice-Admiral Seymour has settled with the Viceroy Liu-kun-yi the details for the ...

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  16. THE ADVANCE OF THE ALLIES. JEALOUSY PREVAILS.

    A combined Russian and Japanese reconnaissance from Tien-tsin revealed a force of from 8000 to 11,000 Chinese troops five miles south of Pel-tsang, and about the ...

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  17. JAPAN AND BRITAIN.

    The recent Blue Book on China showed that on July 5 a welcome was offered to 20,000 or 30,000 Japanese to co-operate in the relief at the Ministers at Pekin, and ...

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  18. IN THE TRANSVAAL—GENERAL FRENCH ADVANCING.

    Lieutenant-General French, whose right flank was reported on Saturday to be resting on the Komatie River, near Middleburg, has made a reconnaissance 30 miles to the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  19. CHINESE OFFICIALS BEHEADED BECAUSE THEY FAVORED PEACE.

    Li Hung Chang has announced that no message can be scut to the Legations owing to the advance of the allies on Pekin. He reports that Li Ping Heng, who is now ...

    Article : 141 words
  20. THE HOSPITALS.

    Before the special committee of inquiry into the treatment of the side and wounded, Sir Wm. M'Cormac, surgeon, said the arrangements were far superior to those of ...

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  21. THE CAPE AND THE TREASON BILL.

    In moving the second reading to the High Treason Bill in the Cape Colony Assembly, Mr. J. Rose Innes, the Attorney-General, declared that it would be impossible to ...

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  22. AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEERS.

    The naval contingent of volunteers from Melbourne and Sydney left the latter port in the troopship Salamis for China yesterday. Captain Hixson will be in charge of ...

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  23. THE PEKIN SITUATION—THE UNCERTAIN FATE OF THE EUROPEANS.

    Since Li Plug Heng has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army, the aggressiveness of the anti-foreign party In Pekin has been greatly intensified. He ...

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  25. A TRAIN DISASTER.

    The enemy removed the ralls on tho line near Frederickstad. A supply train was derailed, and the driver and 12 Shropshire Light Infantry were killed, and 39 were ...

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  26. A PARLIAMENTARY SENSATION.

    A "Sunday Times" special message says:— A tremendous sensation has been created by a statement made in the House of ...

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  27. KITCHENER v. DE WET.

    Lord Kitchener has been ordered to take command of an expedition having the special object, of reducing Do Wet to submission. ...

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  28. CRUELTY PUNISHED.

    Many residents or Pretoria, for cruel and shameful treatment of Britishers, have been sentenced to be exiled. The periods of banishment range from one year to 25 ...

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  29. THE FOURIESBRUG SURRENDERS.

    A further surrender of 750 Boers has made to Licutenant-General Sir A. Hunter near Fouriesburg. Immense supplies of cattle, sheep, and ...

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  30. EXPLOSIVES DISGUISED AS DISINFECTANTS.

    Whilst 132 imported cases purporting to contain disinfectants were being entrained at Delagoa Buy, one of them dropped and exploded. ...

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  31. CORRUPT OFFICIALS PUNISHED.

    The Portuguese Government has dismissed all its customs and railway officials at Delagoa Bay owing to their allowing contraband of war to proceed to the Transvaal. ...

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  32. OLIVIER'S RETREAT BLOCKED.

    Major-General C. M. H. Downing has occupied Harrismith. Any attempt of Commandant Olivier to escape to the Drakensburg, on the borders ...

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  33. THE CAPE TREASON BILL.

    Mr. W. P. Schreiner, the ex-Premier of Cape Colony, in his speech on the second reading of the High Treason Bill, said that he anticipated a steady appeasement of the ...

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  35. THE SIEGE OF RUSTENBURG — IAN HAMILTON TO THE RESCUE—THE ENEMY RETIRING.

    Lieutenant-General Ian Hamilton's column, which recently marched through Pretoria, is advancing to the relief of Rustenburg, where Major-General Baden-Powell ...

    Article : 171 words
  36. WAR OFFICE ENQUIRY.

    The Commission which has been investigating the particulars of the bad supplies obtained by certain War Office contracts exonerated the officials, but urges that ...

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  37. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    Private A. Sharpe, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, was slightly wounded at Z[?]ikatsnek. In the casualty list are the names of the ...

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