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  2. THE WAR. CORNERING THE ENEMY.

    The Boers are gradually being pushed into the eastern portion of the Transvaal, where the more obstinate spirits may still do some hard fighting. The supplies of food and ammunition at ...

    Article : 128 words
  3. KRUGER STILL DETERMINED.

    LONDON, June 8.—A representative of the "Express" has interviewed President Kruger, whom he found living in a specially-fitted railway car at Machadodorp. ...

    Article : 159 words
  4. SURRENDER OF 600 BOERS.

    LONDON, June ll.—Six hundred Boers have surrendered to Lieutenant-General Sir H. M. Rundle in the Orange River Colony. Four thousand of the enemy have gone to the ...

    Article : 50 words
  5. STEYN NEAR KROONSTAD.

    LONDON, June 7.—President Steyn who is east of Kroonstad, in the Orange River Colony, and commands a strong force which threatens the British lines of communication, has telegraphed ...

    Article : 110 words
  6. ADVISING KRUGER.

    LONDON, June 8, 4.10 p.m.—Mr. W. St. Hollis, the American Consul at Lourenzo Marquez, has had a conference with, President Kruger at Machadodorp, and, it is believed, urged him to ...

    Article : 127 words
  7. THE OCCUPATION OF PRETORIA.

    LONDON, June 6.—British troops numbering 25,000 hemmed in Pretoria. Lord Roberts telegraphed on Tuesday to the War Office as follows: ...

    Article : 334 words
  8. THE BATTLE NEAR SENEKAL.

    LONDON, June 6.—Regarding the battalion of Irish Yeomanry, whose difficulties led tO the engagement fought by Lieutenant-General Sir H. M. Rundle, near Senekal, Lord Roberts has ...

    Article : 233 words
  9. A COMBINED MOVEMENT.

    LONDON, June 9, 7.10 a.m.—Lord Roberts is silent, but there are Indications that he is preparing for a great surprise in the direction of Majuba Hill, in co-operation with General ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 285 words
  10. CASUALTIES NEAR FLORIDA.

    LONDON, June 6.—The casualties to Lieutenant-General Ian Hamilton's division in the engagement towards Florida on May 29 were: 24 killed and 114 wounded. ...

    Article : 44 words
  11. GUNS AND BURGHERS CAPTURED.

    LONDON, June 8.—Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," states that many guns and several hundred Boer officers and men were captured by the British in ...

    Article : 179 words
  12. THE AFRIKANDER BOND.

    LONDON, June 7, 7.15, p.m.—The members ofthe Afrikander Bond, at the conference at [?]raaf Reinet, Cape,Colony, have resolved to boycott businesses carried on by Britishers, and to ...

    Article : 205 words
  13. AUSTRALIANS.

    LONDON, June 6, 3.55 p.m.—Major G. A. Lade Carew, D.S.O., of the 7th Hussars, has been appointed to the command of the 1st Brigade of the Rhodesian Field Force. ...

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  14. FIGHTING ON SUNDAY.

    LONDON, June ll, 4.35 p.m.—The British have turned the Drackensberg range, forcing the Boers to retire in the direction of Standerton. The British on Sunday night occupied the defile ...

    Article : 117 words
  15. LORD ROBERTS'S ENTRY.

    LONDON, June 7—Before- Pretoria surrendered the British artillery engaged the forts. The British,shells damaged two of the forts, and the Krupp guns alone answered. When the shells ...

    Article : 128 words
  16. OFFICIAL DISPATCH.

    LONDON, June ll.—General Buller telegraphed on Sunday concerning Friday's engagement,in which Major-General Hildyard drove off the Boers between Botha's Pass and Inkwela, as follows: ...

    Article : 130 words
  17. DISFRANCHISING THE REBELS.

    LONDON, June ll, 4.35 p.m.—Mr.W. P. Schreiner (the Premier of Cape Colony) will introduce a bill in the Assembly to disfranchise the rebels for five years. ...

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  18. THE BRITISH PRISONERS.

    LONDON, June 8.—It is stated that 1000 British prisoners are penned in a barbed wire enclosure on the open veldts at Nooitgedacht. LONDON, June 8, 4.12 p.m.—There are 900 ...

    Article : 57 words
  19. ROBERTS CONGRATULATED.

    LONDON, June 7.—The, Marquis of Salisbury, the Premier, cabled to Lord Roberts:I ear[?]estly congratulate you on the crownings result of your brilliant strategy, and the devotion of our gallant ...

    Article : 60 words
  20. BOERS COMMANDEERING GOLD.

    LONDON, June 9, 2.15 p.m.—President Kruger commandeered £2,500,000 in gold from the Rand mines, and the Transvaal officials commandeered £3,000,000 from the National Bank of the South ...

    Article : 37 words
  21. THE PROFFERED ARMISTICE.

    LONDON, June l1.—General Sir Redvers Bul1er offered to allow the Boers at Laing's Nek to return to, their farms if they surrendered their artillery. The proffered chance was not ...

    Article : 77 words
  22. BOTHA AT HATHERLEY.

    LONDON, June 7.—Previous to the capitulation of Pretoria the men under General Louis Botha, the Commander-in-Chief, and General De la Rey retired, from the city sullenly, though in good ...

    Article : 99 words
  23. THE BOERS AT LYDENBURG.

    LONDON, June 9, 2.15 p.m.—It is believed at Capetown that there is only two months supply of ammunition and foodstuffs at Lydanburg, where it has been reported the Boers will make ...

    Article : 53 words
  24. CONGRATULATIONS FROM CANADA.

    LONDON. June 8.—In the Canadian House of Commons last night, Sir Wilfrid Laurier,the Premier, proposed a resolution congratulating the Queen upon the victories in South Africa. ...

    Article : 79 words
  25. ENGAGEMENT NEAR HEILBRON.

    LONDON, June ll, 4.35 p.m.—Lord Methuen engaged the enemy on Friday ten miles south of Hellbron, in Orange River Colony. Colonel Baird Douglas and fifteen men of the ...

    Article : 105 words
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