Telegrams from China state that the Boxers have covered the walls of Canton with placards threatening a rebellion, in consequence of the imposition of the house ...
Article : 48 wordsA Boer commando, accompanied by women and children, last week crossed the Transvaal frontier into Delagoa Bay territory, near the livers Limpopo and Bafuri, ...
Article : 127 wordsThe police in eight large towns of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony are now working under the authority and control of the civil administration. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn accordance with the terms of the agreement which has been arrived at between China and the Powers, the authorities at Pekin have issued placards in that ...
Article : 81 wordsLord Kitchener reports to the war Office that the movement in favour of peace is spreading fast among the Boers in all the refugee camps. Both prisoners of ...
Article : 120 wordsA return which has been prepared for the British Government shows that since the beginning of the campaign 6,058 loyalist refugees from the Boer tern tones have been ...
Article : 63 wordsThe administration of Wei-hai-wei, the port in Northern China which was leased to Great Britain at the time Russia took over Port Arthur and Talienwan, has been ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Hon. Petrus Benjamin Van Rhyn, one of the three representatives of the North-Western Province in the Legislative Council of Cape Colony, and several ...
Article : 162 wordsIn explanation of Mr. Kruger's exhortation to the Boer commandants to continue the war, the "Standard" asserts that the ex-President of the Transvaal cherishes ...
Article : 191 wordsDespatches from Pekin report that the Chinese authorities are constructing arsenals in the province of Shantung and neat the city of Paoting-fu for the manufacture ...
Article : 38 wordsIn the House of Commons on Friday last Mr. Chamberlain averred that the stages in which the conflict was conducted by the Boers as a regular war and later as a ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Emperor Kwang Su is inaugurating reforms in the Chinese foreign department. Prince Ching, one of the peace envoys, has been appointed Chief President of the ...
Article : 50 wordsA correspondent, writing to the "Spectutor," draws attention to the fact that the South African Committee, which is composed mostly of radicals who adopt ...
Article : 121 wordsCommandant Froneman, jun., has been slain near Winburg. He was a son of the commandant who, while serving under De Wet in the Lindley district some time ...
Article : 128 wordsA commandant near Krugersdorp, in the Western Transvaal, has offered to send to the British refugee camps the female relatives of several Boers in the district who ...
Article : 43 wordsCol. H.K. Stewart, with a force of the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles, after a night march, succeeded in surprising a Boer laager near Amersfoort, a township about ...
Article : 104 wordsLieut. W. J. Rundle, of the 6th Dragon Guards, late of the New South Wales Lancens, has died at Reaufort from wounds received in battle. He was a son of Dr. ...
Article : 104 wordsAdvices from South Africa contain an interesting items of news which the military censor had kept concealed from the public for a month, Reuter's correspondent ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Right Hon. William Wither Brainston Beach, M.P., "Father of the House of Commons" since 1899, met his death in tragic circumstances yesterday. He was ...
Article : 148 wordsTpr. H. Growden, of the Sixth South Australian Contingent, writing from Kroonstad on June 19, after describing the battle of Graspan, remarks:—"That was ...
Article : 163 wordsLord Kitchener, in a despatch to the War Office, supplies testimony to the Boer's con[?]enntuous disregard of the sacredness of human life when that life is represented ...
Article : 242 wordsThe New Zealanders and Queenslanders, under Col. Garrett, have reached Kroonstad, after a trek lasting three months. While on the march they cleared several ...
Article : 39 wordsThe discovery has been made that the Boers in numerous instances are making use of the Kafiirs as a medium for obtaining regular supplies of food, by various ...
Article : 98 wordsMjr. "Ka[?]i" Davies, formerly of Adelaide, who assisted in the formation and the command of the famous corps of Imperial Light Horse, asked the King to allow him ...
Article : 79 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the War Loan Bill, authorizing the Chancellor of the Exchequer to raise a loan of £60,000,000 by the creation of 2¾per cent, ...
Article : 328 wordsAs a result of the recent publication of a private letter from Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, complaining that the Mediterranean fleet is in a dangerously ...
Article : 179 wordsMjr.-Gen. Edward Locke Elhot, who is directing operations in parts of the Orange River Colony south of the Vaal, reports that a British column encountered many ...
Article : 143 wordsThe War Office has withdrawn the interdiet nuder which the "Daily Mail "has been debarred for several days from obtaining official information as to the progress of the ...
Article : 84 wordsA British [?]mn under Mjr.-Gen, R. S. R. [?]haugh, C.R., has just completed an important souring movement over the fertile country between ...
Article : 159 wordsIn an interview with a representative of the Paris "Figaro" on Saturday Mr. Kruger said he would refuse to enter upon any negotiations for peace unless Great ...
Article : 125 wordsOn July 29 a British force surprised a Boer laager at Joubert's farm, in the Platrand district, with the result that, seven Boers were killed, and a similar number ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Government of the Dominion of Canada has notified that, being anxious for the consummation of that great Imperial project, the laying of the Pacific cable, ...
Article : 197 wordsA detachment of Rimington's G[?]des has captured portion of Commandant Steenkamp's convoy at the Klip River. Another party of the Guides has secured two ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Times" surmises that the letter sent by Mr. Steyn under a flag of truce to the British commander at Kroonstad merely contains another protest or complaint from ...
Article : 41 wordsWidespread indignation prevails in England owing to the cold-blooded murder of natives by the Boers, and also at the threat by Commandant Kruitzinger, which he ...
Article : 671 wordsA British patrol recently found under the floor of a farmhouse at Heidelberg, in the Transvaal gold to the value of £7,000 sterling, which was concealed in jam tins. ...
Article : 36 wordsCommandant Hermanus Steyn, cousin of ex-President Steyn, was killed recently in a skirmish in the Vicksburg district. ...
Article : 23 wordsTwo Government officials at Berlin have been suspended from, duty on a charge of having sold to a German newspaper particulars, intended to be kept secret for the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe following Australasians in South Africa are convalescent, and have resumed duty:—Surgeon-Mjr. Thomas Burns, of New Zealand; Lieuts. H. Grover, W.Clark, ...
Article : 65 wordsThe 18th Hussars, forming part of Mjr.Gen. F. W. Kitcheners command, recently encountered a numerous body of the enemy under the command of ...
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Advertising : 124 wordsThe death is announced, at the age of 47, of Lady Hilda Charteris, wife of the Right Hon. W. St. John Fremantle Brodrick, Secretary of State for War. She was ...
Article : 65 wordsParticulars have passed the press censor of the engagement which occurred southwards of Aliwal North, a town on the southern bank of the Orange River, ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 10 Aug 1901, Page 13
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