As a consequence of the guerilla operations adopted by the Boers, the garrison of Pietermaritzburg, consisting principally of Naval, Brigade men and guns from ...
Article : 38 wordsGeneral French, with 3000 troops under his command, is moving on the Hanover-road, between De Aar and Naauwpoort, and threatening Colesberg, which General ...
Article : 235 wordsThe complete change in the Boer tactics, throwing aside all military ideas of a systematic advance, and securing positions before proceeding beyond them, has ...
Article : 101 wordsGeneral Sir Redvers Buffer, commander in chief of the British forces in South Africa, has officially communicated to the Boer officials an emphatic warning that ...
Article : 51 wordsAt daybreak on Thursday the British forees, under Major-General Methuen, attacked a strongly entrenched position held by the Boers at Belmont, and defended by ...
Article : 184 wordsNews received from Mafeking to 12th inst. states that Colonel Baden-Powell and his garrison were still keeping the town safe against the attacks of the Boers who ...
Article : 252 wordsIt is reported at Capetown that two Dutch Afrikander members of the Assembly, whose names are not specified, have joined the Free State Boers at Colesburg, ...
Article : 58 wordsThe audacity of the Boer tacties, which seem to be inspired by a belief that they can retreat beyond the range of effective punishment when seriously attacked, is ...
Article : 56 wordsA great moral effect is being produced upon disaffected upon disaffected Afrikanders in Cape Colony by the sight of the troops of the British army corps, which are daily passing ...
Article : 58 wordsA force of 3000 Boers at the Mooi River, 21 miles south of Estcourt, commenced to shell a strong British camp there, but when Major-General Barton, commanding the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe delay which has taken place in sending reinforcements to South Africa, which enables the British troops to at last take aggressive action against the Free State ...
Article : 88 wordsA party of Boer raiders have swept down on the Natal Stud Company's farm, in the north, and have captured 300 thoroughbred hones, valued in all at £15,000. ...
Article : 85 words[?]s now announced that General Sir Redvers Buller, concerning whose movements great reticence has been observed, is at De[?] there the Port Elizabeth and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 155 wordsNews has been received from Kimberley. of another futile attempt made by the besieging Boers to carry by assault one of the outwork posts. ...
Article : 107 wordsDuring a brief armistice at Ladysmith, a fortnight ago, a Transvaal artillery officer, disguised as an ambulance driver, obtained entrance to the British lines, ...
Article : 218 wordsGerman farmers in Natal, to the eastward of Ladysmith, whose farms are being harried by Boer raiders, complain that the Boers threaten to "evict" them from their ...
Article : 45 wordsThe movements of the Boers in [?] give rise to the impression that they are intent on rushing Maritzburg. ...
Article : 24 wordsDetails have been, received in Capetown of the Free State burghers' proceedings on entering Aliwal North, the Orange River terminus of the East London railway, which ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Marchioness of Salisbury, wife of the Prime Minister, who some months ago suffered from a paralytic attack, and has since been in weak health, died yesterday of ...
Article : 42 wordsSir,--"The Age" for Tuesday, 21st November, inserted a letter from me asking help in the sad case of a man near Bunyip, who, through no fault of his own, is in desperate ...
Article : 259 wordsThe Pretoria Government has announced that the total number of British soldiers of all ranks whom it now holds as prisoners of war is 1338. ...
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Advertising : 151 wordsNo active move has yet been made by the British troops in Cape Colony against the Free State commandos which crossed the Orange River some weeks ago and occupied ...
Article : 129 wordsThe American consul at Capetown has paid a [?] to the Boer prisoners captured in the Natal battles, who are detained as prisoners in British ships assigned for that ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Boers investing Kimberley have extended operations considerably to the westward, and have occupied the village of Campbell, 68 miles north-west of Belmont, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Al[?] North commando has sustained the loss of three of its field guns, which were being conveyed on waggons to the south. These waggons were left at the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe second column of the Kimberley relief force, under the command of General Lord Methuen, which is now at the town of Orange River, where the Kimberley railway ...
Article : 157 wordsReports received from Pretoria state that the, impassive stoicism with which President Kruger at first regarded the train loads of Boer wounded sent daily from Natal to ...
Article : 111 wordsFurther news from Mafeking reports that Colonel Baden-Powell, in his brilliant defence of Mafeking, made a strong and terrorising impression upon the investing ...
Article : 116 wordsThe little village of Lady Grey, 36 miles east of Aliwal North, on the coach road to Barkly East, has been occupied by the Free State Boers from Aliwal. The ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 25 Nov 1899, Page 25
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