When the division on Lord Fitzmaurice'a motion of censure on the Government was taken thirty-eighlt Government supporters were absent from the House of Commons. ...
Article : 288 wordsPresident Steyn has promised to release Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Eager, of the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish. Rifles, as soon as he is able to travel Colonial Eagar was ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. P. L. Russels, of Carngham, Victoria, has accepted a commission in the South Staffordshire Militia, and proceeds to South Africa on active service. ...
Article : 33 wordsField Marshal Lord Boberbs as of opinion that a considerable number of Boers, especially of the Free State, would be glad to lay down their arms if they could safely ...
Article : 98 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. George Wyndham, Under Secretary for War, introduced Supplementary War Estimates for £13,000,000 to provide for 120,000 ...
Article : 70 wordsThe London "Spectator," in an article upon the spontaneous outburst of practical loyalty in Australia and Canada which hailed the intimation that Great Britain ...
Article : 79 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" this morning comments on the fact that the. Boers have started to ann the blacks, and to require them to fight in their eritrencliments. It ...
Article : 63 wordsReuter s correspondent at Colesberg reports that in the fighting between Captain Cameron's reconnoitring party and the Boers in the vicinity of Cole's Kop, on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 659 wordsThe constituents of Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., Conservative member in the House of Commons for Plymouth, have at public meetings severely censured him for ...
Article : 88 wordsThe British Empire League last night gave a concert in the Albert Hall, the proceeds of which are to assist the widows and orphans of colonial troops killed in the war. ...
Article : 97 wordsOne of the causes of rejoicing in France at recent reverses to British arms was due to the belief tbat they sounded the death knell to Mr. Chamberlain as a statesman. ...
Article : 65 wordsPresident Kruger has seized the properties in the Transvaal of the Robinson South African Banking Company, and has transferred all the customers' accounts to the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe only members of the House of Commons who, along with the Irish Nationalists, supported Sir. John Redmond's motion condemning Great Britain for ...
Article : 84 wordsComplaints are being made that owing to scarcity of transports the Imperial Yeomanry volunteers are not being dispatched to South Africa so soon as the men had ...
Article : 42 wordsThe thirty-five rebellious Dutchmen who were recently captured in a Boer laager at bunuyside by a force of mounted Queenslanders and Canadians, have been charged ...
Article : 48 wordsEvidence is accumulating to show that the nation is sot only determined that the war shall be carried to a successful condusion, but will not tolerate any political ...
Article : 130 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, in a second telegram to Presidents Kruger and Steyn, complains that the Boers, in their raids in Natal, have wantonly destroyed a large ...
Article : 42 wordsLord Roberts, as Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, has authorized the enrolment of aimed yeomanry throughout Cape Colony to provide protection for loyal ...
Article : 31 wordsSir James Gordon Sprigg, Leader of the Opposition in the Cape Assembly, has sent a telegram to Mr. Chamberlain com pigmenting him on the overwhelming patriotic ...
Article : 79 wordsField Marshal Lord Roberts was accorded a most eutnusiastic reception on his arrival in Lord Methuen's camp on the northern bank of the Modder River. ...
Article : 35 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, who is at the Modder River, yesterday reviewed the Highland Brigade, which had returned from an arduous expedition to Koppies Dam, ...
Article : 134 wordsFrom the Australian Regiment at Enslin, under Colonel Hoad, 600 men have been provided with horses, and are reported to he shaping well as mounted infantry. They ...
Article : 1,295 wordsArticles which have appeared in leading French newspapers during the last few days indicate that the prevalence of Anglophobia in France is largely traceable to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 253 wordsIn order to keep pace with the mortality amongst the horses of the British forces in South Africa, the War Office has purchased in Hungary 5,000 horses of a stamp suitable ...
Article : 41 wordsThe squadron of forty lancers and officers, new fully equipped men, who have been thoroughly tested at the Parramatta Camp, will fome to Sydney on Tuesday ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the Woolwich Arsenal 20,000 persons are engaged day and night in manufacturing munitions of war for dispatch to South Africa. ...
Article : 74 wordsMajor-General Sir Francis Clery, K.C.B., Professor of Tactics at Sandhurst, is returning to England invalided. He has been for several weeks in Natal discharging ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Anglo-Australian Bushmen's Fund, which was opened in London, now totals over £11,000. The more recent contributors are as follow:—Mr. James Dick, £500; ...
Article : 88 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts, after visiting General Gataere's headquarters at Sterkstroom, returned to De Aar, and proceeded northwards to the Modder River, where he ...
Article : 91 wordsA proclamation issued by Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner in South Africa, intimating that the forfeiture of property, following upon heavy taxation levied by the ...
Article : 53 wordsA secret memorandum, which has emanated from the Volksraad at Pretoria, contains the intelligence that prior to the outbreak of war the Boers were armed with ...
Article : 65 wordsA despatch from Colesberg states that a picket of five Victorian Mounted Rifles had a sharp tussle with the enemy a day or two ago. They defended a post at Rensburg ...
Article : 101 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, Viscount Gornianston, has received the following cable message, dated February 11, from Sir Alfred Milner:—"I regret to report the ...
Article : 97 wordsA large commando of Boers have captured the Magistrate's Court and residence in the Nkandhla district of Zululand. Mr. J. L. Knight, the Magistrate, previoudy ...
Article : 58 wordsThe British forces in South Africa are growing in strength almost daily. By the end of the current mouth the total number of the British and colonial soldiers at ...
Article : 192 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Baden-Powell has mentioned in letters sent to England that during the siege of MaMdng be had taken no fewer than forty Fenians as prisoners on ...
Article : 137 wordsA burgher, who has been taken prisoner by the British, states that so many of the Boers' horses have been killed that the authorities in the Republics have been ...
Article : 46 wordsA cable message lias been received in Melbourne from South Africa confirming Reuter's announcement that Mr. W. J. Lambie, the war correspondent of the ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 17 Feb 1900, Page 6
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