"Our friend the enemy!" For six weeks the New South Wales Lancers (with whom the present scribe is associated as war correspondent) had been in daily touch with the Boers. Six weeks of ...
Article : 2,181 wordsIntelligence has been received from Modder River giving particulars of important movements by the column under Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, which is ...
Article : 427 wordsLieutenant-General J.D.P. French, who has relieved Kimberley, reached that town on Thursday. Lord Roberts's column is at Jacobsdal, ...
Article : 832 wordsMajor-General the Hon. N. G. Lyttelton has succeeded to the command of Lieutenant-General Sir C. F. Clery's brigade with General Buller's column, in ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the House of Lords last night the Earl of Rosebery, in the course of an impassioned speech, complained that the country was being denuded of troops. ...
Article : 255 wordsThe British column commanded by Colonel Addison, which entered Northern Zululand in order to harass the enemy's communications above Ladysmith, reached ...
Article : 51 wordsThe British Government has chartered the Orient liner Austral as a transport for the conveyance of troops to South Africa. ...
Article : 26 wordsMajor Crompton's Volunteer Electrical Engineers have been incorporated with the army, and will take to the front two traction engine trains, a searchlight ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Boers on Sunday, approaching Potgieter's Drift, constructed trenches and other defences on that side. The bombardment of Ladysmith has become ...
Article : 30 wordsColonel Plumer reports a lively artillery duel with 600 Boers at Crocodile Pool, on the north-west border of the Transvaal. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. George Wyndham, Under-Secretary for War, stated that the expenditure incurred in the training of the volunteers ...
Article : 167 wordsA flying column has been despatched to Zululand for the protection of Eshowe. ...
Article : 19 wordsMajor-General Lord Kitchener's movements are unknown. ...
Article : 13 wordsCaptain Scott of H.M.S. Terrible has mounted a 6in, wire gun for General Buller. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe long-expected British movement into the Orange Free State has commenced auspiciously. From the headquarters at Modder River Lord Roberts has sent two army corps divisions, with ...
Article : 1,115 wordsThe fourth contingent of Lancers for service in South Africa left Sydney' this afternoon by the steamer Austral[?]sian, of the Aberdeen line, and was accorded an enthusiastic send-off by relatives, ...
Article : 844 wordsIt has been ascertained that General Joubert, commander of the Boer forces, ordered the printing at Zurich a year ago of 5000 ordnance maps of South Africa. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe members of the police force at Sheffield, England, are being trained in the use of the rifle. ...
Article : 26 wordsLord Roberts's entire force consists of 50,000 men, including Lieutenant-General French's mounted corps of 6000. ...
Article : 24 wordsLast evening a meeting of shopkeepers in the eastern suburbs prejudicially affected by the passing of the Act was held. Mr. A. Fernandez was voted to the chair. Several members of the central league ...
Article : 224 wordsNo mention is made in reports of opposition to Lieutenant-General French's advance. It is unknown whether the Boer retreat ...
Article : 45 wordsThe steamer Aldershot will arrive here from Plymouth in about a month. Messrs. G. S. Y[?]ill and Co. have been advised that the British Government will require for her 4000 or 5000 tons of coal. ...
Article : 83 wordsNews has just reached London to the effect that Kimberley has been relieved. ...
Article : 21 wordsMajor-General Hannay's brigade of Mounted Infantry marched from the Orange River to Ramdam, 12 miles over the Free State border. A slight ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Attorney General, Mr. B. R. Wise, has received an interesting letter from Captain A. Fitzpatrick, who was appointed by the War Office as a Special Service Officer, and who, on reporting ...
Article : 764 wordsThe British have retired to Arundel and the enemy have reoccupied the Taaibosch Hills. The Inniskilling Dragoons charged the B[?]ers, inflicting great loss ...
Article : 43 wordsThe War Office reports the following casualties among the colonial troops in the fighting near Rensburg on the 10th and 12th instants:— ...
Article : 141 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Sydney Institute of Public Accountants' Literary Society held on Wednesday night, Mr. F. A. A. Russell, M.A., harrister-at-law, delivered a very interesting lecture ...
Article : 335 wordsThe Boers continue to shell the women's laager at Mafeking. The Boer women are applauding this conduct. ...
Article : 64 wordsSir A. Cockburn (Agent-General of South Australia), sneaking at King's College extension dinner, described the Australian mounted troops as of great ...
Article : 60 wordsThe First Dragoon Guards, in an engagement with the enemy at Rustenberg, had seven men captured and six wounded. ...
Article : 32 wordsThirty-eight batteries, equipped with machine guns, are to be added to the German army. ...
Article : 23 wordsLieutenant-Colonel C. Conningham, second in command of the Worcestershire Regiment, was killed in the recent fighting near Rensburg. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe "Times" confirms the report that there are 20,000 Russian troops in the vicinity of Kus[?]k, 80 miles from Herat. ...
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Advertising : 101 wordsNotwithstanding the strong wind on Thursday night, the Y.M.C.A. tent was filled with men of the contingent. Addresses were delivered by the Rey. W. Hough, of Randwick, who took ...
Article : 79 wordsThe forces under Major-General the Earl of Dundonald whilst engaged in a reconnaissance to the east of Chieveley had six men wounded, including Lieu ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 119 wordsLord Roberts has summoned Sir William MacCormae, at present in Natal with General Buller's column, to proceed to the western frontier. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Bishop of Moos[?]nee, Canada, states that the Eskimos report that two men descended in a balloon and were murdered by the natives. The bishop ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 17 Feb 1900, Page 9
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