Mr, George Wyndham, Under-Secretary for war, speaking in the House of Commons, stated that 12,000 cavalry remounts bad been despatched to ...
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Advertising : 990 wordsMr. Chamberlain in speaking on the Boer threats which have been made of wrecking the mines and the city of Johannesberg, said that ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following cable reached us yesterday about 2.80 p.m.:—“Lord Roberts occupied Bloemfontein, and received a welcome.” ...
Article : 81 wordsFive transports have been selected convey General Cronje and his co-prisoners to St. Helena. H.M. 1st class cruiser Niobe will escort the ...
Article : 34 wordsPersistent statements are being made at Delagoa Bay that tho Boers have made great preparations for the destruction of the city of Johannesburg. ...
Article : 40 wordsColonel Baden-Powell, at Mafeking, has warned General Snyman, the Boer officer conducting the seige, that unless he ceases to use native soldiery ...
Article : 39 wordsA number of British officers in the face of enemy daringly removed, the wire connections with the mines laid the Boers for tube destruction of ...
Article : 50 wordsApplications for Sir Michael Hicks-Beach’s war loan amounted to £500, 000,000. ...
Article : 17 wordsHer Majesty the Queen will leave for Ireland on April 4th. ...
Article : 16 wordsSergeant-Major Looney, Colonel Baden- Powell’s commissariat office at Mafeking, has been, publicly degraded and sentenced to live years’ ...
Article : 27 wordsThe announcement that the Minister Defence in Victoria will encourage the the formation of rifle clubs bas lead to a great increase of activity amongst. rifle ...
Article : 738 wordsDuring the march of 16 miles on Bloemfontein the pipers of the Highland Brigade, under Major General Hector MacDonald, played ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Boers are said to be strongly entrenched at the junction of the Drakensberg and Biggarsberg ranges. ...
Article : 21 wordsAfter the battle at Driefonteir, President Steyn lead the Boers northwards towards Wynburg. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe British with 28 guns are now actively born barding the Boas positions across the river at Norvals Pont. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe rebel movement in the Herschel district near Basutoland is collapsing. ...
Article : 15 wordsGeneral Lord Methuen at Boshof, a town in the Orange Free State about 40 miles from Kimberley, has se zed a number of Boer guns and 70,000 ...
Article : 32 wordsThe railway oil the north of Kimberley has been repaired and is now working for a distance of thirty miles. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe second reading of the War Loan Bill has been carried in the House of Commons by 268 to 21 votes. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe wives of the burghers of the Orange Free State are now extremely anxious for their husbands to return home. ...
Article : 24 wordsLord Roberts telegraphed on the 13th that:— “By the help of God, the bravery of Her Majesty's soldiers, I have taken possession of Bloemfontein and our flag now waves over the Presidency, vacated by M. T. Steyn, late President of the Orange Free State. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Boer prisoners at Simon’s town, had messages conveyed to them containing plots for their escape, by means cunningly, devised receptacles in ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Boers from Lobatsi, the town recently occupied by Colonel Plumer, have retreated to Zeerust. [Zeerust is a town in the ...
Article : 38 wordsGeneral Gourko, a Russian ttache to the Transvaal forces has cabled to the Czar, that he is perfectly amazed the energy and endurance of the ...
Article : 37 wordsThe garrison at Mafeking is now living on bread made from horses forage. The water has been polluted by the Boers, and typhoid and diphtheria are ...
Article : 45 wordsHer Majesty the Queen was overjoyed on the receipt of the news of surrender of Bloemfontein, and the intelligence to be published ...
Article : 36 wordsCorporal Hensman, who was badly wounded at some time back has succumbed to his wounds. ...
Article : 25 wordsThere has been great rejoicing at Capetown over the occupation of Bloemfontein. Peals of bells rang out and large ...
Article : 29 wordsMajor-General French experienced considerable opposition in occuping the hills around Bloemfontein. Lard Roberts has despatched the 3rd ...
Article : 31 wordsSir Andrew Clark, the Victorian Agent-General, has unofficially suggested to the British Government the desirability of selecting. intelligent ...
Article : 39 wordsThe joint proposals of Presidents Kruger and Steyn regarding peace were cheered by the Irish Home Rulers when read in the House of ...
Article : 116 wordsM.I. Steyn, late President of the Orange Free. State bas withdrawn to Kroonstad. ...
Article : 16 wordsA Blue Book dealing with the seizure of the German steamer Burdes-zath at Delagoa Bay, has been issued. Lord Salisbury blames Count Von ...
Article : 65 wordsMajor General French, the officer who has distinguished himself' so brilliantly during the South. African, campaign, compelled the surrender of ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Cheshire Yeomanry and the Canadians have proceeded to Prieska, and the West Australians have returned to Victoria West. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Elands Laagte Collieries, which were maliciously fired by the Boers when retreating from Ladysmith will soon be reopened, as the coolies ...
Article : 40 wordsThe British troops have now occupied Bosh of, Barkly East and Aliwal North. Colonel Brabant has entered the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe general verdict in Great Britain regarding the President’s despatch to Lord Salisbury is that it is canting, hypocritical and insolent. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Daily Telegraph devotes the proceeds of the sale of photogravures of Raphael Tuck’s “Sons of the Empire” to the Australian local war ...
Article : 30 wordsMajor General Warren’s division, which had been embarked for Cape Town, has been re-called and ordered to re-join General Buller. ...
Article : 32 wordsCaptain Rankin, second officer of the Queensland Mounted Rifles, bas been appointed to the command of the Australian force at Norvals Pont. ...
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Advertising : 74 wordsThe offer of a maxim gun recently made to the War Office by Lord Hindlip, has been accepted. ...
Article : 21 wordsColonel Baden Powell’s engineers have constructed a now dynamite gun with an 1800 range. ...
Article : 25 wordsM. Delcasae, the French Minister of War, bas stated in the Chamber of Deputies that Lord Salisbury’s reply to Presidents Kruger and Steyn ...
Article : 55 wordsLord Salisbury, in the House of Lords, and Mr A. J. Balfour, in the House of Commons, read telegrams from Presidents Kroger and Steyn ...
Article : 258 wordsPresident Kruger has telegraphed to New York newspapers as follows:— “The burghers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State have determined to ...
Article : 82 wordsTwo hundred and sixty of tho Dordrecht rebels have surrendered. Many the arms they carried were marked “Transvaal.” ...
Article : 26 wordsEight engines and a large quantity rolling stock has been captured at Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, speaking in the House of Commons, said that America in response to the Presidents appeal had offered Great Britain friendly aid ...
Article : 70 wordsThe breach between the Transvaal and Orange Free State burghers is widening considerably. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Daily Telegraph has published news cabled from its correspondents all the European capitals that the Boers have been recommended to conclude ...
Article : 42 wordsMajor-General Clements’ patrols have Joined hands with Major-General [?] ...
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The Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette (Cue, WA : 1894 - 1925), Sat 17 Mar 1900, Page 3
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