A party of Queenslanders belonging to Brig.-Gen. H. C. O. Plumer's column have captured a number of Boers and two armed natives at Slingapies. ...
Article : 74 wordsLord Kitchener in an advice to the War Office states that the enemy have been guilty of several murders, both of whites and kaffire. A party of Boers recently ...
Article : 131 words[?]"It should be plain to the Government that there is a growing public anxiety, amounting almost to irritation, over the present condition of affairs."—"Standard," October 1, 1901.] ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 57 wordsThe Natal Government has extended the branch railway which connects Glencoe with the Dundee coalfields, and the line has been completed to a point in the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe War Office has ordered the 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers, commanded by Lieut.-Col. W. G. Crole Wyndham, C.B.[?] to proceed to Cape Town. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Crown Beef Goldmining Company, and the Durban Roodepoort Goldmining Company, awning extensive claims in the Johannesburg district, are each about to ...
Article : 39 wordsThe evangelical churches of the Rhine Province of Prussia have issued a manifesto on behalf of the Boers and in denunciation of Mr. Chamberlain. The writers ...
Article : 102 wordsAdvices received at Brussels are to the effect that Gen. Christian De Wet, the Free State Commander-in-Chief, has succeeded in collecting 6,000 men, including ...
Article : 61 wordsThe War Office appears to be fully alive to the desirableness of doing everything possible to bring the protracted military, operations to an early termination by ...
Article : 151 wordsParticulars have been received regarding the movements of Miss Emily Hobhouse, who, according to the "Daily News," was arrested in Cape Colony by the British ...
Article : 113 wordsA Boer leader named Sandbery, who acted as aide-de-camp to Gen. Louis Botha during the early stages of the war, is now engaged in a lecturing campaign in France. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe bluebook issued by the War Office this week contains several interesting despatches relating to the management of the Boer concentration camps. The reports ...
Article : 115 wordsThe war Office reports that Lord Kitchener has lately dispatched specially equipped mobile columns to the disaffected areas in the Transvaal, Orange River, and ...
Article : 71 wordsA commando of 60 burghers have raided the rich grain and cattle district south of the village of Darling, which is situated 24 miles west of Malmesbury, in order to ...
Article : 212 wordsThe War Office has received an intimation that four British soldiers were killed by lightning during a severe thunderstorm at Vryheid a few days ago. Two others ...
Article : 48 wordsCape Town advises that Commandant Fouche and his followers are in country, north of Jamestown, a village in the division of Aliwal North, and retreating ...
Article : 112 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Middelburg, in the Transvaal, has supplied his journal with details of a dastardly outrage which was committed lately by one of ...
Article : 81 wordsThe bluebook supplies evidence in support of the charges of filthiness, ignorance, and obstinacy. It is shown that mothers refuse to obey the advice given to them by the ...
Article : 228 wordsRecent advices from Cape Town indicate that the tendency of disloyal Dutchmen to enlist as British soldiers for the purpose of avoiding suspicion is a source of great ...
Article : 89 wordsIn a despatch to the War Office Lord Kitchener reports that the Boer Josses during the past week were aS follow:—Slain, 43; wounded and captured, 16; made ...
Article : 50 wordsReuter's Agency reports that Lieut.-Col. Dawkins recently captured 24 Boeds at Waterberg, and that Brig.-Gen. Plumer has secured a number of prisoners in the ...
Article : 66 wordsGeneral F. W. Kitchener has been granted leave of absence from South Africa to enable him to visit England. His object is to secure a much-needed rest. ...
Article : 39 wordsAdvices from Brussels state that the British authorities have deported from South Africa Mrs. M. T. Steyn, wife of the exPresident of the Orange Free State, and ...
Article : 57 wordsCorrespondents at Cape Town state that several colonists who have been known as prominent members of the Africander Bond are severing their connection with ...
Article : 69 wordsThe "Standard" reports that the visit of M r. Abraham Fischer and Dr. W. J. Leyds to Berlin, for the purpose of urging the Emperor William to mediate in the Boer ...
Article : 201 wordsLord Kitchener reports that a commando of 300 Boers recently surrounded a Yeomanry patrol at Brakspruit, near Magaliesberg. The Bitish soldiers made a ...
Article : 84 wordsLieut. A. G. Hall, with a squadron of mounted infantry belonging to the Bedfordshire Regiment, has run down and made prisoners of 20 Boers in the Vlakfontein ...
Article : 85 wordsWith a view of allaying the anxiety caused in Great Britain by the long continuance of the war, the British Government has published a number of important despatches, ...
Article : 139 wordsLord Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at Leeds yesterday on the South African campaign, declared that the Beers were absolutely irreconcilable. If ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Commander-in-Chief in South Africa has advised the War Office that while Col. Byng's Light- Horse were operating near Heilbron, about 150 miles north-east of ...
Article : 122 wordsLieut. George Cossins, of the 6th South Australian mounted contingent, has been accidentally severely wounded in the leg at Stigpoort. ...
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Advertising : 86 wordsIn his latest despatches to the War Office Lord Kitchener specially mentions [?] number of officers and men of the Australlian contingents, including several South ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of the "Times" states that an unprejudiced foreigner, who has just arrived in that city from South Africa, attributes the protracted nature of ...
Article : 178 wordsIn the course of one of his latest articles on the Transvaal war, Sir. Bennet Burleigh, war correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," makes several grave charges ...
Article : 83 wordsMajor O'Shea, of the 15th Bengal Lancers, is commended by the Commander-in-Chief for the skill and coolness which he displayed on the night of August 1 as leader, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Military Court in South Africa has passed sentence of perpetual banishment upon 12 additional Boer leaders, including the Landdros't of Zoutpansberg. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn pursuance of a recommendation made by the South- African Compensation Commission, the Government of Great Britain has decided to set aside the sum of £4,000 ...
Article : 58 wordsThe patrol of yeomanry who were surrounded and captured after a hot skirmish at Brakspruit, near Magaliesberg. comprised 64 men. They were stripped of their ...
Article : 42 wordsCaptain Watt, of the South Australian fifth contingent, and Lieut. McFarlane, of the sixth contingent, are mentioned for hav[?] The attack on the Grootvlei farm was ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 23 Nov 1901, Page 13
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