The new military policy which is being pursued by Lord Kitchener in evacuating districts which he cannot adequately protect, bringing his troops ...
Article : 106 wordsThere has been to the relief to pastoral position, and rain is still badly wanted. A small wool safe was held in Adelaide on Monday, when about 2,000 bales were ...
Article : 3,443 wordsThree squadrons of Johannesburg mounted Rifles have captured a Boer outpost at Springs. Subsequently they pluckily repelled an attack by a strong ...
Article : 38 wordsOwing to the disturbed condition of affairs in Cape Colony the departure of Sir Alfred Milner for Pretoria to assume the duties of Governor of the ...
Article : 43 wordsAt a point east of Balmoral the Boers have taken possession of a train containing ruining material. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Willem Steyn, a Boer peace delegate who was deputed by the central peace committee at Kroonstad to interview the burghers in the Standerton ...
Article : 62 wordsUpon the arrival at Ceylon of a British transport containing Boer prisoners, who were to be confined on the Island, 20 of them jumped from the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe regiments of yeomanry cavalry, rifle volunteers, and militia in Great Britain are eagerly responding to the call of the War Office for fresh troops ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Portuguese authorities at Lorenzo Marquez, have decided to transport to Lisbon 900 Boers who recently fled for refuge to Delagoa Bay. ...
Article : 34 wordsLieut. A. C. Doxat, of the 3rd Battalton Imperial Yeomanry, a stockbroker, has been awarded the Victoria Cross for distinguished gallantry in ...
Article : 82 wordsMjr.—Gen. Sir Henry Colvile, who is held responsible for the disaster to a body of 400 yeomanry at Lindley, has been placed on retired pay, to date ...
Article : 59 wordsThe systematic collection of Boer families and their removal with their stock, stores of food, and household goods to convenient centres on the ...
Article : 70 wordsPie. Daniel Clarke, of the New Zealand Roughriders, has been killed in a skirmish at Klerksdorp. London, January 19. ...
Article : 137 wordsA British trooper, who was hold prisoner for some days by De Wet suid afterwards released, states that the redoubtable Boer's commandos consist ...
Article : 69 wordsDetails are forthcoming of the severe engagement fought by Mjr.—Gen. Colville's column at Vantander's Hock. ...
Article : 122 wordsAdvices from Cape Town affirm that the advance of the marrnders in the western portion of the colony has been cheeked, and the Roers are retiring to ...
Article : 83 words"Port Adelaide is one of the dearest ports in Australasia. That is the reason why we avoid it with our ships as much as possible." This was the emphatic ...
Article : 286 wordsAdvices from Cape Colony notify that 100 Boers rode into Sutherland, a town about 270 miles from Cape Town, near the Roggeveld Mountains, and ...
Article : 291 wordsIt is reported that a contingent of New Zealanders have had a hot encounter with 800 Boers in country westwards from Ventersburg, a town ...
Article : 114 wordsFrom a trade point of view 1900 closed well, the value of staple produce exported from South Australia showing an increase on the corresponding period of 1899. The ...
Article : 1,047 wordsThe steamer Canada, 8,806 tons, sailed for the Cape yesterday with 1,300 regular troops and 520 men who have joined Mjr.—Gen. Budeu-Powell's ...
Article : 28 wordsEleven Dutch farmers in Cape Colony have been arrested and brought to Cradock, a town miles by railway from Port Elizabeth, on a charge ...
Article : 204 wordsIntelligence from Mafeking is to the effect that Lord Methuen, whose column includes the third South Australian contingent (Bushmen's Corps), ...
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Advertising : 89 wordsA force of Boers on the 5th intst. surrounded the village of Daniel's Kuil in the south-west of Cape Colony. An attack wus maintained for five ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the fight which took place near Vlak Laagte, on the Natal and Pretoria railway, between a portion of Mjr.—Gen. Colville's column and a body of 700 ...
Article : 69 wordsLord Kitchener, in a despatch to the War Oflice, reports that 3,000 Boers are concentrated at Carolina, a village in the Lydenhurg district, 30 miles ...
Article : 153 wordsOn Friday the High Commissioner and the military authorities gave orders forbidding all residents of the Cape peninsula, with the exception of ...
Article : 91 wordsA parly of Britishers a few days ago were laying a mine at a spot near Zeerust, when a fearful accident occurred. They were covering the trap of the ...
Article : 91 wordsMjr.—Gen. Sir Charles Tucker has been appointed to the command, of the garrison at Bloemfontein, Sir Archibald Hunter having been invalided. ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 26 Jan 1901, Page 6
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