Though the departure of the Imperial Bushmen's Contingent yesterday was emphasised by an amount of enthusiasm worthy of the occasion, it hardly reached in intensity the wave of patriotic feeling ...
Article : 998 wordsAt General Roberts's capture of Bloemfontein all the Australian troops, except the Victorians and others under Colonel Hoad, were engaged in the march which resulted in taking the town. ...
Article : 727 wordsThe Boers who are besieging Wepener have been reinforced from Thaba'nchu. April 23. The officers and men of ...
Article : 118 wordsMilitary critics in the United States approve of the censure made by Lord Roberts on Sir Redvers Buller and Sir Charles Warren. ...
Article : 47 wordsLieutenant-General Pole-Carew, who was recently appointed to the command of the Third Division, is operating with the second battalion of the South Wales ...
Article : 45 wordsBy the command of Lord Roberts the body of the late Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. E. Umphelby, of Victoria, who was fatally wounded at the batlle of Driefontein on ...
Article : 51 wordsLord Roberts has inspected the Redcross section of the army now at Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 24 wordsPrivate Henry, of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, and Private C. A. Bennett, of the "A" Battery, New South Wales Artillery, are seriously ill ...
Article : 33 wordsThe rear-guard action fought by Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen to defend his convoy on his retirement from Zwartkopjesfontein to Boshof was the ...
Article : 133 wordsSergeant Gumley, of the North Sydney police, is in receipt of an interesting letter from Private W. P. Tresidder (Army Medical Corps), who went to South Africa with the second contingent from the colony. ...
Article : 691 wordsThe military situation is rapidly developing in interest. For some weeks past the events of the campaign have been of a monotonous character, varied only by a couple of incidents in which the ...
Article : 1,633 wordsIt will be noticed from the cables that Mr. Steyn, of the Orange Free State, in very anxious about the rich grain parts of the State, and that be is exhorting the burghers at all costs to prevent the British ...
Article : 987 wordsMajor-General Brabant, who is advancing upon Wepenor from Rouxville (due south of that town), was engaged to-day fighting within 20 miles of Wepener. ...
Article : 51 wordsA commando which is stationed near Frankfort threatens Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen at Boshof. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe shelling of the British position at Elandslaagte by the Boers from north of Sundays River was continued ou Saturday. ...
Article : 29 wordsMajor-General Brabant, leading one-half of his mounted division, found the Boers strongly posted at Baesman's Kop, with several guns. ...
Article : 34 wordsPerhaps the most striking feature of the view of the pageant and its observers as it presented itself in George-street West was the evidence of the fact that the people of Sydney are becoming habituated to the ...
Article : 378 wordsOn Saturday 1000 Boers crossed Sundays River Bridge and shelled the Elands Laagte Colliery. The British had the heavier guns and ...
Article : 34 wordsFurther particulars have been raceived of the march of Lieutenant-General Sir H. M. Rundle's column, which includes the 17th Brigade and two batteries from ...
Article : 170 wordsThe prolonged inactivity of the British has made the Boers very venturesome. Disguised iu khaki, several of the enemy have explored the camp of the ...
Article : 40 wordsColonel Vandeleur Kelly, of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, writing to Mrs. Kelly from Storkstroom, under date March 20, gives some interesting particulars concernting the treatment of the ...
Article : 251 wordsIt is stated that the Boers have mounted 69 guns at Kroonstad, on the railway in the northern portion of the Orange Free State. ...
Article : 45 wordsCaptain R. R Thompson, formerly adjutant of the Australian Horse, out now in command of a squadron in South Africa, writing from Wessel's farm, near Bloemfontein, on March ...
Article : 1,128 wordsThe decorative aspect of this portion of the route was by no means so pronounced as at the last farewell to the troops. Across Bridge-street, between George and Pitt-streets, two lines of flags extended. ...
Article : 712 wordsThe reveille sounded at 4 a.m. yesterday, and shortly afterwards the Rookwood camp was astir. It was a cold, misty morning, with the fading moon shining dimly, and the men were glad to ...
Article : 1,439 wordsThere are 10 commandos, with two Long Toms, north of Klerksdorp, which is eight miles over the Vaal, and at Potchef-stroom, about 10 miles further north. ...
Article : 36 wordsPrivate W. H. Hambly, of the mounted bearer section of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, writing from Bleemfontein on March 18, states that they camped at the Modder River for a ...
Article : 416 wordsDeserters from the enemy's forces in Natal declare that the hope that the Great Powers will intervene in the war alone keeps the Boers at the front. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 wordsThe severe censorship on news from the front is believed to indicate that Lord Roberts's forward movement has commenced. ...
Article : 31 wordsDoctors report that many of the Boer killed proved to be women disguised as men. Several Boer women so disguised have ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Standard" states that Lord Roberts is delayed in commencing his advance owing to the necessity of clearing his flanks and his rear of the enemy. ...
Article : 71 wordsLieutenant Vandelour Kelly, of the N.S.W. Mounted Riflea, who is serving under Colonel Knight at the front in a letter to his mother received by last mail, referred to the late Lieutenant ...
Article : 166 wordsSir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, M.P., has visited the Queen of Swaziland at her kraal, and has urged her not to permit the defeated Boers to occupy the caves in ...
Article : 48 wordsA lady writing from Pietermaritzburg under date March 1 says:—"Ladysmith is relieved at last. The news seems really too good to be true. To-day wa have a letter stating that for many days their ...
Article : 263 wordsLieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren has traversed Durban (Natal), and East London (Cape Colony). It is understood that Sir Charles ...
Article : 44 wordsLieutenant-General Ian Hamilton, who commands the colonial division in the Orange Free State, is successfully employing Australian Bushmen to scour the ...
Article : 74 wordsAt the request of the Governor and the Premier, the United States Government has instructed the American Consul at Pretoria to look after the wants of the New Zealand prisoners and to see that they are ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 24 Apr 1900, Page 5
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