The incident is regarded as particularly unfortunate just at this stage, owing to the activity of the agents of the Orange Free State and the ...
Article : 97 wordsOur Contingent Supplement.—The very excellent photographs from which the illustrations in our supplement of yesterday were reproduced were ...
Article : 1,696 wordsSome few further particulars are to hand of the fighting around Ladysmith yesterday, and these have come from an official source. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 688 wordsThose of the Dutch who have up to the present stood off from their compatriots may also be drawn into the ranks of the Boers, and thus greatly ...
Article : 69 wordsNo estimate as yet been cabled as to the number of Boers engaged in the fighting around Ladysmith on Monday. It is stated that the front of the ...
Article : 68 wordsWhile the Fusiliers and Gloucesters were holding out against the terrible odds, Colonel G. G. Grimwood's brigade of four batteries was also in the thick ...
Article : 115 wordsMuch watchfulness is required to be observed in Ladysmith to prevent the guns being interfered, with. A spy was caught red-handed ...
Article : 58 wordsSecond Lieutenant Miles Bertie Cunninghame Carbery and Private Rient, two Australians, and who are members of the Princess Victoria's ...
Article : 153 wordsOn the side of the enemy many were shot down, but new forces were brought into action, and ultimately the opposing army was of such a gigantic ...
Article : 119 wordsSo far as can be ascertained these orders were implicitly obeyed, but unfortunately with a result that has caused deep regret throughout the ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. C. Fockens, Philippolis, O.F.S., says:—"While playing tennis recently I caught an awful bad cold, which settled in my chest, and though I tried ...
Article : 325 wordsAt the very outset the force was met with strong opposition from the enemy. A heavy fire was opened on them, and when the reply was commenced the ...
Article : 66 wordsDuring the past few days observations have been made by means of the war balloons as to the position of the enemy, and the results of these were ...
Article : 50 wordsIn his despatch General White fully exonerated the officer in charge of the battery, and frankly admitted that the position selected by himself had proved ...
Article : 35 wordsSubsequently the battery was placed in the position personally indicated by Sir George White, and one of the fiercest struggles in modern warfare ...
Article : 48 wordsOne of the principal of these operations was the clearing of the left southern flank. This had been threatened, the object of the enemy ...
Article : 49 wordsSir George adds that the number which capitulated was 1542, consisting of the following:—42 officers. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe contest lasted for a considerable time, and the ranks of the gallant Fusiliers and Gloucesters were thinned down with rapidity. Independent of ...
Article : 78 wordsSir George ordered a mountain battery of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and Gloucesters to proceed to the hills for the purpose of executing a section of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe news spread like wildfire all over the country, and was received with the deepest concern. Very few details are as yet to hand, ...
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Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), Thu 2 Nov 1899, Page 5
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