General Buller’s demonstra ion before Colenso on Saturday consisted of pouring a shrapnel fire into the enemy’s trenches. His fire, however, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe corps of volunteers projected by the Lord Mayor of London and numbering 1400 men is almost ready to sail for South Africa. It is stated ...
Article : 49 wordsPresident Kruger despite remonstrances from the United States Secretary of state again refused to allow the American Consul of Pretoria to ...
Article : 49 wordsAn interesting discovery was made yesterday at Mill Wall docks London A steamer berthed at the dock was suspected of having contraband goods ...
Article : 55 wordsThe activity of the Queensland and Canadian troops in the neighbourhood of Belmont have caused the enemy to abandon a large belt of country ...
Article : 38 wordsTwelve additional batteries of field artillery have been warned to be in readiness to proceed to South Africa. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr Balfour delivered an important speech at Manchester yesterday. Referring to the, war he pleaded that the unfortunate Jameson raid had ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Boers have laid electric alarm wires across the roads near Ladismith ...
Article : 15 wordsFurther particulars have been received of the recent battle of Colesburg. Colonel Watson, who was commanding the 1st battalion of the ...
Article : 106 wordsGeneral Buller’s continued inactivity is attributed to the incompleteness of his transport arrangements and to lack of concentration. ...
Article : 22 wordsIt has transpired that prior to the recent assault on Ladismith General Joubert, the Boer Commandant-General, held a great war council. ...
Article : 31 wordsLord Lamington, Governor of Queensland, speaking at St. Pancras, London, yesterday eulogised the patriotism of Queensland colonists. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Queen has congratulated Sir George White and the troops at Ladismith upon the gallant defence of the town. ...
Article : 25 wordsA Durban despatch states that General Bullers army in Natal now numbers 33,000 strong. ...
Article : 20 wordsHeliographic messages were received on Tuesday from war correspondents at Ladismith. These agree that no anxiety is felt, as to the garrison not ...
Article : 32 wordsThe British Government have ranged to make compensation in respect of all vessels unnecessarily delayed at Delagoa Bay. ...
Article : 24 wordsGood news has been received from Ladysmith of Saturday’s battle. Sir George White reports that the enemy were everywhere repulsed. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe colonial troops serving with Major General French have from the first been behaving splendidly. When the New Zealanders were approaching ...
Article : 62 wordsLadismith and every hill around Ladismith and Colenso, are said to be strongly fortified by the Boers. It further states that many of the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe seizure by Great Britain of several German steamers is being utilised in Germany for promoting the Kaiser’s project of doubling the navy ...
Article : 109 wordsA soldier who was present at General Garacere’s reverse at Stormberg has written a letter to his friends in England regarding the disaster. He ...
Article : 72 wordsThe widespread suspense occasioned in England by the incompleteness of the news from Ladysmith regarding Saturday’s battle, was relieved ...
Article : 144 wordsMuch speculation has been indulged in as to how the Transvaal Government succeeded in fully preparing for the present campaign without the fact ...
Article : 107 wordsIt was hinted yesterday that on board the German steamer Herzog captured at Delagoa Bay and brought to Durban, were a number of foreign ...
Article : 57 wordsSix thousand additional troops with six guns are expected to [?] in South Africa at the end of the present week. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Imperial authorities have accepted from India 250 mounted volunteers. ...
Article : 14 wordsDordrecht is now garrisoned by 1000 rebels. ...
Article : 10 wordsThree, Boers prisoners have escaped from the British naval steamer in Simons Bay, the British naval station in Cape Colony. One was re-captured. ...
Article : 47 wordsA report from Pretoria states that Freestaters are preparing to quit Bloomfontein, and that many are making their way to Pretoria. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe rebels who were taken by Colonel Pilcher from Sunnyside on January 1st, have been sent to Cape Town where they will be tried for ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is stated that the last words of Major-General Wauchope, who was killed at the battle of Magersfontein, were, “For God’s sake men, don’t ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Boers are reported to be strongly reinforcing their commando in the neighbourhood of Colesberg, ...
Article : 20 wordsIt would appear from letters received in London from war corres ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is stated that residents of Barkely East and Lady Grey in the north east of Cape Colony have signed an oath of neutrality. This instrument was, it is ...
Article : 43 wordsMessrs Wernher, Beit & Co., the well-known South African diamond merchants, have given a donation of £30,000 towards providing the ...
Article : 30 wordsWhen lately, owing to their being harassed by French, the Free Staters, evacuated Arundel, the Transvaalers are reported to have fired on them. ...
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