After thirty days of weary steaming we at last sighted the South African coast. We saw a line of low scrub-covered bills, without any sign of habitation. At the edge of the sea were ...
Article : 2,584 wordsA [?]eliograph signal has been received at Chieveley from Ladysmith, intimating that the garrison can hold out indefinitely. The British casualties as the result of ...
Article : 99 wordsMajor-General Lord Kitchener joined Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief of the forces in South Africa, at Gibraltar, on board the steamer Dunottar Castle. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe members of the Afrikander Bund at Capetown report that 8000 European officers and men skilled ia artillery tactics are held in reserve at Pretoria. ...
Article : 34 wordsMarconi instruments for wireless telegraphy, intended for the Boers, were recently seized by the British at Cape-town. Experiments were made by the ...
Article : 54 wordsWe made our formal landing on South African soil to-day. The Kent arrived early in the morning, and during the day I went ashore to prospect. The first thing that struck us was ...
Article : 4,052 wordsThere is much friction between the Free State and Transvaal troops opposing Lord Methuen near the Modder River. The Transvaalers, fearing defection from ...
Article : 64 wordsThe enemy placed barb[?]d wire at the bottom of the fords which the British attempted to force at the Tugela River on the 15th instant. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe British are waiting for reinforcements, perhaps also for the new Commander-in-Chief, Lord Roberts, and his chief staff officer, Lord Kitchener. So far removed from the scene of ...
Article : 1,498 wordsShortly after the British Government was officially acquainted by the military authorities at the seat of war that good horsemen who were also [?]f[?]cient marksmen were of in[?]stima[?]le value in the ...
Article : 800 wordsGeneral Cronje, the Boer commander at Magersfontein, has notified that he declines to hold communications with Lord Methu[?]n until the end of the war. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe second battalion Lancashire regiment and the second battalion Middlesex regiment have arrived at Capetown from Southampton. ...
Article : 45 wordsKimberley has sufficient provisions to last for six months. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Boers refrain from replying to Lord Methuen's shells, fearing that if they return the British fire they will disclose their positions. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "Times" war correspondent at Modder River says that it is difficult to overestimate the effect of the loyalty displayed by Australia and Canada. The colonial ...
Article : 100 wordsGeneral Joubert, who temporarily resigned his command of the Boer forces before Ladysmith in consequence of illness, has gone to the front again. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that the Australian infantry are stationed at Enseon (?), the Canadian troops at Belmont, and the Queensland Mounted Rifles ...
Article : 36 wordsAccounts of the escape of Mr. Winston Churchill, the "Morning Post " correspondent, from Pretoria, have been published. ...
Article : 74 wordsIn the action at the Tugela River on the l5th instant General Sir Redvers Buller, who was under heavy fire, had a narrow escape, a bullet having grazed ...
Article : 58 wordsOne thousand Dutch residents of Cape Colony have reinforced the Boers at Tug[?]la. The "Times" correspondent at ...
Article : 90 wordsThe "Daily News" states that it was Colonel Adye, Lieutenant-General Sir G. S. White's staff officer accompanying Lieutenant-Colonol Carleton's brigade, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of the "Times," in referring to the state of feeling in Europe, says that the nervousness of diplomatists at Great Britain's ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Cape mounted police have occupied Dordrecht, about 50 miles north-east of Sterkstroom. The Boers retreated from the town. ...
Article : 31 wordsSome interesting items might be culled from a private letter from an officer's wife to a lady relation in Sydney. The letter, dated Maritzburg, October 30, says:—"Of course, you see all the papers about ...
Article : 385 wordsThe naval guns of the British command the whole of the Boer positions at the Tug[?]la River, rendering it impossible for the enemy to advance. ...
Article : 34 wordsRussian reinforcements for the Far East are being hastily despatched from Odessa. ...
Article : 20 wordsFever and pinkeye have broken out in the Boer camp at Mag[?]rsfontein. Pink[?]ye has also appeared, among the horses of the British at De Aar and ...
Article : 33 wordsThe New Zealand troops attached to Major-General J. D. P. French's division were in a tight corner in the action near Arundel, between Naauwpoort and ...
Article : 102 wordsThe British cruiser Forte, one of the vessels of the Cape of Good Hope and West African station, has captured a cargo of stretchers and railway sleepers ...
Article : 48 wordsThe French mail steamer Australi[?]n, which arrived to-day from Sydney, was restricted to the outer anchorage owing to the presence on board of a number of passengers from Noumea, ...
Article : 155 wordsWe steamed into the harbour and saw toworing above us the flat-topped eminence of Table Mountain. In the harbour we saw transport after transport, all great big, vessels with the big ...
Article : 621 wordsMajor-General Lord Kitchener, chief of Lord Roberts's staff, now on his way to Capetown, has arrived at Gibraltar in H.M.S. Dido. ...
Article : 28 wordsA squadron of the 10th Hussars has reinforced Major-General French's division at Naauwpoort. ...
Article : 21 wordsGeneral Schalk Burger, who is reported to have opened his mind and said the Boers will fight to the last man, although they know the British will be victorious, is an example of the progressive Boer. [?] ...
Article : 275 wordsBefore leaving England Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, obtained a promise that the 16th (the Queen's) ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Hon. James Martin, M. L. C., died at his [?]sidence, Gawler, on Wednesday afternoon, in his 79th year. The veteran colonist had been unwell for some weeks past with ...
Article : 255 wordsThe British newspapers bitterly complain that the British artillery in South Africa is antiquated as compared with the Boers' guns, which are of the newest ...
Article : 36 wordsThree members of the Cape House of Assembly have been implicated in seditious acts. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe 63rd battery of artillery, which recently arrived at Capetown, has left for Durban. ...
Article : 25 wordsTwenty thousand men have volunteered for the Imperial Yeomanry Brigade being organised for service in South Africa. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn general orders issued yesterday the following description of the uniform to be worn by the members of the contingent is given:- The following will comprise the articles of uniform ...
Article : 92 wordsThe following liners have been chartered as transports by the British Government for the conveyance of troops to South Africa:—Umbria (Cunard ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Boers alloge that Mr. Winston Churchill, the correspondent of the "Morning Post;" who recently reached Delagoa Bay, escaped from Pretoria in ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 28 Dec 1899, Page 5
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