LONDON, Thursday.--The situation in South Africa completely engrosses public attention throughout the United Kingdom, where the series of British reverses have ...
Article : 181 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The violent French displays of anti-British feeling have to a large extent subsided. The fact of the Prince of Wales presiding at ...
Article : 58 wordsThere are still to be found in odd corners some persons who profess to look upon England's action in going to war with the Transvaal as the outcome of tyranny and land-greed. A little ...
Article : 1,313 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, speaking at Aberdeen last night, urged that the ...
Article : 37 wordsThe "hay-foot-straw-foot" stage has been passed at headquarters, and the "general advance" sounded, a proceeding satisfactory alike to the army of patriots and the officers concerned. ...
Article : 1,100 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--M. Paul Deroulede, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies, who is being tried on a charge of conspiracy against the State, has been sentenced to two years' ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The second battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, Lieutenant-Colonel C .J. Bloomfield, D.S.O., in command, has reached Capetown, and been ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Island steamer Moresby, which arrived early yesterday morning from the Islands, brings news that the natives of the Admiralty Islands lately captured a schooner called the Nukamana, ...
Article : 672 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A flying column, with eight guns, is organising at Woolwich. A howitzer brigade is also being hurriedly ...
Article : 27 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--During the battle at Tugela River, the Boers shot several civilians who were acting as stretcher-bearers in the Ambulance Corps. ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Newspaper correspondents confirm the rumor that Lieutenant-General Sir George White's force at Ladysmith is running short of shells. ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The recent reverses sustained by the British arms in South Africa have aroused a deep sense of the gravity of the situation, with tho result that there ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The Boers are massing in great force in the abandoned British camp at Stormberg, 32 miles north of Lieutenant-General Sir William F. Gatacre's ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Colonial scouts attached to General Sir Redvers H. Buffer's forces, now stationed at Chleveley, with temporary headquarters at Frere, have seized ...
Article : 35 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.--The Agent-General, Mr. W. P. Reeves, to-day cabled to the Premier the following items of news in connection, with the war:-- ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--With a view of checking the supply of information to the enemy by spies, a strict surveillance is being exercised in connection with all ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--An official dispatch has been received from Major-General French, dated from Arundel, giving particulars of a recent successful ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen has discovered, by means of a balloon reconnaissance, that General Cronje's position at Magersfontein and ...
Article : 95 wordsDisquieting items of news from South Africa yesterday were that Ladysmith was reported to be short of shells, and that the enemy's artillery had frequently beaten that of the British in range. ...
Article : 761 wordsAttention to their newly-purchased horses forms the greater portion of the work of the members of "A" Battery at present. The animals have been passed by veterinary officer, and are now ...
Article : 283 wordsAt 2.30 a.m. yesterday Constable Stokes, on duty on the Old South Head-road, Bondi, discovered two men who were apparently bent on fowl-stealing from the premises of a well-known resident. ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--There have been many instances proved in which the Boer artillery in recent battles has been able to out-range the British guns. ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Additional particulars relating to the battle of Colenso still come slowly to hand. It now transpires that the Boers dammed ...
Article : 290 wordsThe use of armored concrete, or elment arme, has been recently adopted to a very large extent in constructional work on the Continent. It consists of concrete in which layers of iron or ...
Article : 356 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--From North-west Canada an offer has been made to the Imperial authorities of a thousand experienced rough-riders and good shots. The ...
Article : 86 wordsThe offer of the Now South Wales Lancers to furnish a complete half-squadron to serve as Lancers has not yet been considered, but it is not likely that it will be accepted. Yesterday a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 887 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The offer of the Lord Mayor of London (Alderman A. J. Newton) to organise a volunteer corps of 1000 marksmen has been accepted by ...
Article : 118 wordsWillie the main body of the mounted men will be Mounted Rides, there will also he dispatched to strengthen the mounted riflemen already at the front a further detachment of 42 men to ...
Article : 71 wordsADELAIDE.--Arrived. December 21: Victoria,R.M.S. Anglian, str., from Melbourne. Sailed, December 21: Annersley and Gabo, strs., for Melbourne; Victoria, R.M.S., for London. ...
Article : 234 wordsYesterday the Premier received a reply from Mr. Chamberlain to his cable of Tuesday night. In this cable Mr. Lyne made a formal offer of a contingent of a thousand mounted ...
Article : 1,795 wordsThere is every reason to believe that the offer of the Colonel of the Australian Horse, Colonel Mackay, to send a complete squadron out on active service will be rejected, the services as ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The guns abandoned by the British force at Tugela River are not yet in the hands of the enemy. ...
Article : 67 wordsIn yesterday's issue of "The Daily Telegraph,"reference was made to the fact that there was every reason to fear that the half unit of the Medical Staff Corps, now being organised and ...
Article : 393 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Charles Henry Wilson, M.P. for Hull, and senior partner in the firm pf Messrs. John T. Wilson, Son, and Co., shipowners, of Hull, has made a ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Fri 22 Dec 1899, Page 5
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