There is little to record concerning Lord Roberts's movements. As far as the cables are concerned, they go to show that he is securing his hold on the Free State, but we have no ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, March 23, 3.35 p.m.—The British commandant at Maseru has heliographed to Lieutenant-General French at Thaba'nchu that 4000 Boers from Colesberg are trekking towards ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, March 22, 4.35 p.m.—Major-General Clements's three columns, including the West Australians, South Australians, and Colonel Price's second contingent of Victorian Mounted ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, March, 23.—Brigadier-General Brabant has occupied Rouxville and Zastron, in the Free State, to the eastward of Aliwal North. ...
Article : 27 wordsLONDON, March 22, 4.35 p.m.—The Boers have burnt Pomeroy, north of Pietermaritzburg, on the Zululand border. ...
Article : 21 wordsLONDON, March 23, 3.35 p.m.—The Free Staters are surrendering many inferior weapons. Thers is an Impression that they are concealing their Mausers. ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, March 22.—There are Indications that Lord Roberts (Commander-in-Chief in South Africa) and Sir Alfred Milner (High Commissioner) are settling the conditions for the surrender and ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, March 21.—President Steyn, in replying to the telegram sent by Lord Roberts on the 11th instant, in reference to the abuse of the white flag, states:— ...
Article : 358 wordsLONDON, March 23.—General Sir Redvers Buller, who was reported a few days ago to be making preparations for an advance, has engaged 600 ambulance bearers. ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, March 22.—The Berlin newspapers resist the proposal of the immigration of the Boers into Damaraland (German West Africa), predicting that trouble would follow. ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, March 24.—General Joubert is now in supreme command of the Boer forces at Kroonstad, the new capital of the Free State. LONDON, March 25, 3.30 p.m.—There is great ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, March 22.—The question of Australasia sending forces to free the British troops in South Africa has impressed the Continental Powers. ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, March 23.—The correspondent of the "Times" at Bloemfontein reports that on the 21st instant President Kruger issued a proclamation annexing the Orange Free State to the Transvaal. ...
Article : 165 wordsLONDON, March 22.—Colonel Plumer's movements for the relief of Mafeking are hampered by three trains of supplies. LONDON, March 22, 4.35 p.m.—Commandant ...
Article : 271 wordsLONDON, March 22, 4.34 p.m.—Lord Hindlip has received a commission as second lieutenant in the 8th (the King's Royal Irish) Hussars. (Lord Hindlip recently offered to provide a ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, March 22.—The leading newspapers comment approvingly on the message from Mr. Seddon, the Premier of New Zealand, to Mr. Chamberlain, expressing approval of Lord ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, March 24, 2.25 p.m.—The death is announced of Major-General E. R. P. Woodgate, comanding the 9th Brigade in South Africa, and who was severely wounded during the fighting at ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, March 24.—The Boers in Natal have sent their women and children into the Transvaal. Deserters state that the Boers intend to retreat with their guns and stores to Laing's Nek. ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, March 26.—The Tasmanians and Remington's Guides, who are with Major-General Clements on his march from Norval's Pont to Bloemfontein, were the first to enter Philippolis. ...
Article : 176 wordsLONDON, March 25.—The rebels are strongly, entrenched between Kenhardt and Van Wylce Vlei, in the north-west district of Cape Colony ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, March 22.—All the European Powers have replied in the negative to the requests of President Kruger and President Steyn for mediation. ...
Article : 26 wordsLONDON, March 25, 3.30 p.m.—The Boer leaders are circulating a story among the burghers that the Russians have captured and occupied London, and that Lieutenant-General Gatacre has ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, March 22.—The "Times" bespeaks the Empire's heartiest approval of the decision of the Government to give commissions in the Imperial Army to Australians, as another step ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, March 23, 3.45 p.m.—A reconnaissance from Fourteen Streams, on the 21st instant, resulted in an artillery duel which lasted the whole morning. ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, March 24, 2.25 p.m.—Five hundred Boers are entrenched at Faureemith. (Fauresmith is a few miles south of the Riet River, and 70 miles south-eaet of Bloemfontein.) ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, March 25, 3.30 p.m.—Lord Kitchener has arrived at Bloemfontein from the western district of Cape Colony. ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, March 22.—The steamer Knight Templar, with the last New Zealand Contingent, has arrived at Durtan. ...
Article : 19 wordsLONDON, March 25, 3.30 p.m.—Lord Roberts reports from Bloemfontein that the country is settling peaceably, and that the people recognise the advantage of selling supplies to the troops. ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, March 25, 8.30 a.m.—Lord Roberts reports from Bloemfontein:—"Four officers who were not escorted except by a trooper, rode eight miles beyond the British camp at the Modder ...
Article : 503 wordsLONDON, March 23, 3.35 p.m.—President Steyn, addressing the burghers at Kroonstad, stated that the Boer losses during the war had been 800, while the British lesses amounted to 64,000. ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, March 21.—Lord Roberts telegraphs: "President Steyn, in reply to my proclamation calling upon the Free Staters to submit and disarm, is circulating a notice that any burgher ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, March 23, 3.45 p.m.—Pretoria is preparing for a two years' siege. The Boer women are demanding that the British prisoners shall be shot. ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, March 21.—In view of the threat made by the Boers to destroy Johannesburg and the Mines, Great Britain is issuing a prociamation declaring that personal penalties will be exacted ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, March 23, 3.45 p.m.—The Transvaal and the Free State prisoners at Simons Town have been separated, owing to their continued quarrels. ...
Article : 26 wordsLONDON, March 23, 3.35 p.m.—The Boers are massing at Kroonstad the new Free State capital, where they are entrenching. LONDON, March 25, 3.30 p.m.—Twelve ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, March 23.—The Queen visited the wounded at Woolwich Hospital yesterday. Her Majesty carried flowers to the soldiers, including some specially to Private King of the Connaught ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, March 21.—Brigadier-General Brabant has sent 400 men to Rouxville East, in the Free State, near Aliwal North, where President Kruger has ordered all the Britishers, Bo[?]rs, and ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, March 24.—A Boer prisoner who wa[?] attempting to escape at Capetown was shot by a sentry. ...
Article : 26 wordsLONDON, March 21.—The Boers have blown up the railway bridge over the Modder at Glen Siding, north of Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 24 wordsLONDON, March 24, 2.25 p.m.—The managers of the fund for the relief of the wives and families of officers who may fall during the war nave decided to include Colonial officers, and to form ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, March 23.—In the House of Commons last night Mr. Chamberlain stated that the order of Sir Alfred Milner regarding the confiscation of rebels' property covered the non-payment ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, March 21.—Prior to the capture of the train at Springtontein hy Lieutenant-General Gatacre's column, two officers, Captain Hennessy, of the Cape Mounted Police, and Captain Turner, ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, March 23.—The steamer Australasian with the fourth contingent of New South Wales Lancers has arrived at Capetown. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, March 22, 4.34 p.m.—Mr. W. P. Schreiner, Premier of Cape Colony, has consented to the declaration of a public holiday after Mafekine is relieved. ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, March 24, 2.25 p.m.—A battle is Imminent near Maseru, on the Basutoland border, a few miles south of Ladybrand. ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, March 23.—The mounted detachment which Lieutenant-General Gatacre sent to Smithfield, east of Springfontein, captured some Transvaal Boers and a load of arms and ammunition. ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, March 22.—The "Morning Post" states that Messrs. Fischer, Wessels, and Wolmarahs, who lately arrived at Delagoa Bay, are takinfi to Russia for safety a number of documents ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 31 Mar 1900, Page 13
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