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Advertising : 164 wordsThere has been of late considerable anxiety manifested as to the position of affairs at Mafeking. No direct information from Col. Baden Powell has come to hand for some ...
Article : 196 wordsThe correspondent of the " London Post" at Chievoley states that a great event is impending. The " Daily Telegraph" correspondent ...
Article : 59 wordsNumbers of European officers are arriving weekly at Delagoa Buy and proceeding to Pretoria to assist the Boors. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn response to the call to arms of the English Yeomanry a force of 10,000 of the Yeomanry troops have been assured for enrolment, and will be taken into camp ...
Article : 139 wordsThe lost portion of the siege train for General Buller has left Capetown. ...
Article : 19 wordsGeneral Methuen is still entrenched at Modder River, the Boers being in great force and strongly placed on three sides of him. There are frequent artillery duels between ...
Article : 40 wordsTwo large Armstrong guns Und sixteen ammunition carts lately arrived at Pretoria, manifested as agricultural implements in order to avoid seizure by the Customs. ...
Article : 43 wordsDr. Leyds, the Transvaal Plenipotentiary to the European Powers, has written to on Egyptian agitator, Mustapha Kiamil, urging that Egypt should shako off the control of ...
Article : 33 wordsPresident Kruger has refused Sir James Sir James sivewright's offer to equip an ambulance corps for the wounded Boors, explaining that he could not accept gifts from the enemy. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Colonial troops have been ordered to wear helmets instead of hats, owing to their, being mistaken for the enemy at Arundel. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe British Government has accepted offers of horses for tho troops in South Africa from the Maharajah of Mysore, the Maharajah of Oashmere, and the ruler of the ...
Article : 39 wordsIn dismissing the recent engagement at Modder River the "London Times" says the experience there gained proves modern weapons to be wholly to the advantage of ...
Article : 60 wordsAt Christmas time the Boers fired unloaded shells into Ladysmith containing plum puddings, and messages wishing the British the season's compliments. ...
Article : 33 wordsCeylon is Bending a contingent of mounted volunteers to serve with tho British forces in South Africa. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe British cavalry engaged the enemy at Dordrecht, but after six hours fighting the Boers were reinforced and the British retired. ...
Article : 35 wordsMajor Count Gleichen, who was hurt whilst engaged with Lord Methuen's forces at the battle of the Modder River, is now convalescent. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe New York and Boston City Councils have carried resolutions expressing sympathy with the Boers. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsLast evening in the School of Arts' Hall lovers of comic opera had presented to them " The Mikado," or " The Town of Titipu," Messrs. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan ...
Article : 520 wordsIt was recently stated that the War Office had given large orders for a supply of waggons from America. It is now announced that England declines ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Transvaal Government is imposing a tax upon the output of privately owned gold mines, which will probably lead to the suspension of a number of mines. ...
Article : 34 wordsMatters are growing more serious at Lady-smith. Food is becoming very scarce, and only the necessaries of life are obtainable, luxuries being exhausted some days ago. ...
Article : 176 wordsSir Charles Vincent, M.P., will command the volunteer infantry force now being organised by the Lord Mayor of London. (Later), London, Monday. ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. H. Erischler, an Australian, who has won the Queen's medal on the naval training ship Britannia, has been appointed midshipman on H.M.S. Doris, on the Cape ...
Article : 59 wordsThe year 1900 upon which we have just entered is big with the promise of great things, following as it does one of the most eventful periods of the world's history. The ...
Article : 596 wordsMr. Matt Steyn, President Steyn's brother, has left the Orange Free State, with a following of 800 men. Mr. M. Steyn a told his brother, the ...
Article : 91 wordsPreaching in St. Paul's Cathedral at a service of supplication for the success of the British arms in South Africa, Dr. Creighton, Bishop of London, said " It was not good ...
Article : 133 wordsThe War Belief Fund is receiving big support in India. ...
Article : 16 wordsA Reuter's telegram states that the British force in camp at Victoria West, on the main line of railway from Capetown, and about 80 miles south of Do Aar, had a sharp ...
Article : 59 wordsWe have received a lengthy letter from Private J. T. Russell, who is now at the front with the other Australian troops, and who formed one of the first contingent from ...
Article : 521 wordsIt is reported from Ladysmith that General Sir G. S. White has recovered from the slight attack of fever from which he was suffering. ...
Article : 37 wordsIntelligence from South Africa states that the great delay which has occurred in the transport of equipments has been the means of greatly hampering General Buller and ...
Article : 195 wordsLieutenant Commander Colquhoun, of the Victorian Naval Brigade, who recently distinguished himself in an engagement against the Boers, has arrived at Lord Mothuen's ...
Article : 39 wordsOwing to the large number of foreign military officers and troops finding their way into the Transvaal to assist tho Boors, a vigilant watch is being kept by the British ...
Article : 169 wordsHor Majesty the Queen, in replying to New Year greetings from Kimberley, said that she was deeply touched by the message from the besieged, and had watched with ...
Article : 53 wordsIndications of movements on the part of the Boors in their camps, both at Magers-fontein and the Tugela River, have given rise to the belief that the heavy rains now ...
Article : 67 wordsAUCTIONEERS LICENSES. Auctioneers' licenses were granted to E. H. Taylor (E. H. Taylor and Co.), James Apps, and Hamilton Cutler (Cutlor and ...
Article : 121 wordsMajor General French, operating at the north of Arundel, succeeded in outman[?]uvring the Boers at every point. The latter were compelled to abandon ...
Article : 72 wordsMajor-General French reports that the Boers are entrenched at Rendsburg, but fearing that the cavalry would out off their communication withdrew to Colesberg. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is reported that 400 Boors stationed at Aliwal Hill are isolated owing to the swollen state of the Tugela River. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Boers have constructed fresh fortifications on many points between Colonso and Springfield. ...
Article : 20 wordsGeneral Buller has been reinforced with 8000 men and eighteen guns. ...
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