China has forbidden Russian troops to pass the Taku forts, which are situated at the mouth of the Pei Ho river, which leads to Pekin. ...
Article : 103 wordsSpeaking at a dinner given in London last night by the City Conservatives' Association, the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, referred to the proclamation ...
Article : 340 wordsDespatches received to-day by the War Office, convey the welcome intelligence that Pretoria has been abandoned. ...
Article : 145 wordsConsequent on the receipt of the news of the abandonment of Pretoria, there was a good deal of excitement in the city to-night. Large crowds ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Nationalist section of the French press have received with great coldness the announcement of General Andre's appointment as Minister of ...
Article : 49 wordsThe latest intelligence received from the far East reports that, many warships, most, of them flying the Russian flag, are now lying at ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Portuguese commander at Komati Poort, where the Transvaal railway enters Portuguese territory, has closed the line for goods traffic ...
Article : 68 wordsLatest information to hand from the Klondyke goldfields states that a. nugget of solid gold, weighing 771bs, has been discovered on the field. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe popular idea of a war correspond dent is that of a big, burly, bronzed man, who stalks about battlefields taking sketches and writing notes regardless of ...
Article : 901 wordsReuter's correspondent at Pretoria, writing on 9th March, says:—Those who knew Johannesburg six mouths ago would scarcely recognise the ...
Article : 940 wordsTwo cases of plague were reported today, one having a fatal termination within a few minutes of the attack. Patrick Butler, residing in Sussex ...
Article : 130 wordsAt a banquet given in Mafeking in honor of Her Majesty's birthday, Major-General Baden-Powell in replying to the toast of his health, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Earl of Rosslyn, the war correspondent for the "Daily Mail," who was captured by the Boers some time ago and sent to Pretoria, has cabled ...
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Advertising : 3,353 wordsDirectly on receipt of the news of the capture of Johannesburg in Capetown and Durban, thousands of Uitlanders registered their names as ...
Article : 147 wordsLord Roberts is hastening the advance of his army to Pretoria. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Commander-in-Chief is sending officers from Johannesburg to dictate terms of surrender. The English newspapers agree that ...
Article : 27 wordsLord Roberts reports that Commandant Krause surrendered Johannesburg to the British yeserday. ...
Article : 17 wordsSir Redvers Buller'a latest despatches state that the naval guns with General Clery's force are bombarding the enemy's position at ...
Article : 59 wordsNews from South Africa states that General Snyman, who took a prominent part in the siege of Mafeking, has retired from the field in ...
Article : 40 wordsLatest despatches to hand from Bloemfontein state that General Pretyman, Military Governor of the Free State, to-day performed the ceremony ...
Article : 115 wordsFull kits for 1000 men have been provided from the moneys raised by the Kipling Absent Minded Beggar Fund for distribution among the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe news of the flight of the Boers from Pretoria was received here with much delight. This afternoon the shareholders indulged in singing and ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Fri 1 Jun 1900, Page 3
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