News from the front in Natal shows that General Buller assaulted the Boer position at Monte Christo with his heavy artillery, both in front and on the flank, also attacking the ...
Article : 344 wordsReuter's correspondent at Pretoria states that the Transvaal Government are sending a large force, under the command of a prominent general, into the Orange Free State, ...
Article : 36 wordsWe have been shown the receipts signed by the Government for £250 each, paid by the Mutual Life Association of Australasia on account of David Cumming M Leod ...
Article : 125 wordsThe correspondent of the Daily Chronicle reports that a Boer force under Commandant De La Key is hovering on the right of Lord Kitchener, who is personally commanding ...
Article : 45 wordsOn board the transport steamer Duke of Portland the arrangements for getting ready for sea are in a forward state. The vessel was coaling ail day on Tuesday, and the ...
Article : 792 wordsMajor-general Hector Macdonald, with the Highland Brigade, is at Klipkraal, near Kiipdrift, at the Riet River, protecting the British communications there. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Boers appear to have succeeded in taking their position guns away from Magersfontein for so far only a 12-pounder has been captured by Lieutenant - general Lord ...
Article : 34 wordsInformation now to hand states that notwithstanding the arrival or British reinforcements the British convoy of 200 waggons, which was intercepted by the Boers at the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe relief of Kimberley has been followed by the resumption of railway traffic, and trains now are running to Kimberley. ...
Article : 23 wordsInformation has been received that a British column, under Colonel Brabant, with a number of transport oxen and mules, left Penhoek, near Sterkstroom, on the branch ...
Article : 144 wordsThe invasion by the British of the Orange Free State has been followed by the withdrawal of some of the Boer commandoes from north Cape Colony. It is stated that ...
Article : 60 wordsNo further progress was made with the swearing in of the third Queensland contingent at the camp in the Exhibition ground on Tuesday, though in other respects ...
Article : 781 wordsCommandant De La Rey, with a force of 1,000 Boers who have been withdrawn from Colesberg is hovering on the right of Lord Kitchener's (Major-general Knox's) brigade. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe country all round Kimberley is reported to be clear of the enemy. It is known that the Boers have evacuated their positions at Dronfield, Saltpan, Schott Nek, and Spy ...
Article : 34 wordsFurther news of the fighting in the neighbourhood of Colesberg Last week, states that a troop of Inniskilling Dragoons accompanied by a detachment of Victorian Mounted Rifles ...
Article : 375 wordsCommandant Pretorius, who was wounded and captured at the Battle of Elandslaagre, on October 21, and subsequently had to have a leg amputated, has been released at Arundel, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Boer commando which recently raided Ngu[?] and other places in Zululand, now are leaving that country for the Transvaal. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt has transpired that Lord Roberts declined to delay the advance of the British column which had been ordered in pursuit of General Cronje's retreating forces, in ...
Article : 69 wordsFurther news regarding General Buller's operations shows that the Boer position at Hlangwane had been evacuated by them. General Buller's forces now have occupied all ...
Article : 93 wordsLater news from the front states that the Royal Irish Fusiliers made a gallant charge up Greenhill, and with ringing cheers and bayonets flashing, they carried the position. ...
Article : 50 wordsHer Majesty the Queen yesterday summoned the bugler boy Dunn to Wind or Castle, and presented him with a bugle. Young Dunn, it appears was wounded when ...
Article : 198 wordsLord Methueu's force, which for two months has been entrenched at Modder River, has now traversed the position lately held by the Boers at Magersfontein, and arrived at ...
Article : 40 wordsThe fund which was recently opened in London to assist in the equipment of the Australian bushmen's contingent for South Africa, now reaches a total of £11,500. The ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Naval Brigade, with their 12-pounder guns encountered a force of 1,000 Boers in a kopje near Klip Drift, and routed them. This body of the enemy had previously shelled ...
Article : 67 wordsAn influential committee has been appointed in connection with the bushaten's contingent. SYDNEY, February 15. The proposal to keep a fourth contingent of ...
Article : 692 wordsThe transport steamer Southern Cross, with 4[?]4 officers and men of the second New South Wales contingent, and 4[?]3 horses, has arrived at Capetown. ...
Article : 27 wordsInformation has been received at the war Office, although the statement is given as unofficial, that General Cronje's force has been surrounded by the British troops. ...
Article : 30 wordsReports have been received to the effect that the cavalry division under Lieutenantgeneral French has succeeded in getting ahead of General Cronje's force, which is now ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 23 Feb 1900, Page 15
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