The war correspondent of the "Times" with Lord Methuen's column at Modder River Station, in a cable message yesterday, paid a very high compliment to the ...
Article : 272 wordsOur Cape files to hand contain reports of the lighting in which Lord Methuen's column was engaged prior to the uniortunate reverse at Magersfontein. The ...
Article : 1,188 wordsSince the uovernment on the 18th inst. announced the intention to form an Imperial Yeomanry Corps, composed of mounted riflemen, whose term of service should ...
Article : 219 wordsBritish war vessels continue to vigilantly search for contraband of war all ships entering Delagoa Bay. Yesterday Captain Edward P. Jones, of the second-class ...
Article : 55 wordsReports from the Modder River state that General Cronje's troops are suffering from epidemics of typhoid fever and "pinkeye," a variety of ophthalmia associated ...
Article : 55 wordsThe British public has been intensely concerned lest, owing to the delay in pushing forward reliefs, the town of Kimberley should be starved into capitulation. All ...
Article : 84 wordsMany British newspapers are bitterly complaining that the guns which are being used by the Royal Field Artillery are obsolete as compared with the Boers' ...
Article : 60 wordsThe rebellion amongst the Cape Dutch is likely to have a serious effect upon the position in Natal. Within the past few days about 1,000 disloyal Dutchmen have ...
Article : 276 wordsPersistent reports are coming through fram the Modder River to the effect that General Gronje's troops are at variance with the Free Staters. It is said thait the ...
Article : 123 wordsFrom the publisher, Mr. James Bowden, London, we have received a copy of an illustrated biography of "Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic," ...
Article : 317 wordsThe Vienna correspondent to that "Times" states that the nervousness of Continental diplomatists in view of the British reverses in South Africa implies a ...
Article : 625 wordsThe following are extracts from letters received from some of "our bovs" who composed the first South Australian military contingent, and who now form portion ...
Article : 1,329 wordsA commercial traveller for many years resident in this colony, but now on "the reads" in Cape Colony, wrote to an Adelaide friend from Cradock, in Cape Colony, ...
Article : 1,348 wordsHie "Times correspondent at Sterkstroom, the headquarters of General Gataere's column, takes a pessimistic view of the attitude of the Dutch populace in Cape ...
Article : 280 wordsThe "Deutsche Zeitung," published in Berlin, publishes a letter purporting to come from General Joubert, and dated at Ladysmith, October 27, in which the ...
Article : 281 wordsEvery steamer arriving at Delagoa Bay from Europe contains numbers of ex-soldiers from the Continent, who proceed to the Transvaal for enrolment in the Boer ...
Article : 145 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 30 Dec 1899, Page 27
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: