LONDON, July 2, 4.30 a.m.—The British Consul at Chefoo telegraphs that Chinese troops in Pekin, on the 18th instant, murdered the German Minister (Baron Ketteler) while he was ...
Article : 673 wordsLONDON, June 29.—The combined movement by the British to crush Commandant de Wet, who is active in the northern portion of the Orange River Colony, has commenced. ...
Article : 61 wordsAfter every big leap forward of the British. general forces there succeeds a lull for the purpose of securing remounts, guarding lines of communication, getting together adequate provisions, ...
Article : 221 wordsLONDON, June 27, 4 p.m.—It is officially announced at Capetown that no troops will be withdrawn, from South Africa until the end of the war. ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, June 27:—The Victoria Cross has been bestowed on Major E. J. Phipps-Hornby, Sergeant Parker, Gunner Lodge, and Driver Glassock, all of Q Battery Royal Horse Artillery, for ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, June 29,—Owing to their insolen[?] and treachery, Lord Roberts has ordered the officials of the Netherlands Railway Company to leave the country within three days. ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, June 29, 3.25 p.m.—A [?]ying column of 800 men under, Colonel Grenfell, which was proceeding towards Roinburg, in the Orange River Colony, encountered a strong force of ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, June 29, 10 a.m.—The British officers who were taken prisoners by the Boers and have been liberated have been, reinstated in their former positions, Lord Roberts reporting that no ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, June 29, 3.25 p.m.—An attempt has been made by Boers to blow up the artillery barracks and magazine in Pretoria. The attempt was frustrated by a gunner seeing the fuse and ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, June 30.—Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen, with the 1st, Infantry Division, while pursuing the Boers to Lindley re-captured 8000 sheep and 500 cattle. ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, July 1.—A belated message from Mr. Winston Churchill, the correspondent of the "Morning Post," states that Captain the Duke of Marlborough, when the British entered Pretoria, ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, June 30, 3.30 p.m.—Commandant de Wet is very active in the eastern portion of the Orange River Colony, and has captured one hundred prisoners in minor fights. ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, July 1.—Captain T. M. M'Inerney, of the Victorian Mounted Infantry, has been appointed Queen's Advocate in the reorganised High Court of Justice at Pretoria. ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, June 28.—Great indignation prevails at Capetown at the condition of the military hospitals, and at the absence of comforts. Mr. W. A. Burdett-Coutts, M.P., in a letter to ...
Article : 397 wordsLONDON, June 29, 3.25 p.m.—Boers in the Transvaal have surrendered 4000 rifles to Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell within a week. ...
Article : 24 wordsLONDON, June 29, 3.25 p.m.—Mr. Burnham, the famous American scout, has been invalided home. ...
Article : 16 wordsLONDON, June 26.—Private R. M. Baxter, of the N.S.W. Mounted Infantry, is reported missing from Pretoria. Private S. C. Hill, of the N.S.W. Mounted ...
Article : 275 wordsLONDON, June 28, 2.45 p.m.—Pretoria swarms with Boer spies. The Boers having greased the railway lines at inclines, Lord Roberts has issued a proclamation ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, June 28, 2.50 p.m.—A report from Delagoa Bay received on the 20th instant stated that a bridge on the railway to Delagoa Bay had collapsed at Hectorspruit, in the Transvaal, 18 ...
Article : 110 wordsThe cases since those reported last week are as follows: Sydney.—Agnes Langre, 38, living in the city; Minnie Barnes, an infant, living at Double Bay; ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON, June 29.—Private G. E. Walker, of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, has died of enteric fever at Bloemfontein. His Excellency the Governor, nae received the ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, June 26, 4.22: p.m.—Dr. Jameson, the leader of the famous raid, has been elected to the Cape. House of Assembly for Kimberley unopposed. ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, June 27.—The Boers made a daring attack on the rearguard of of Lieutenant-General Sir H. M. Rundle's division near Senekal, about 40 miles north-east of Winburg, in the Orange ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, June 27.—Mr. Jacobus Nicholaas Petrus Botha, one of the members for Aliwal North in the Cape House of Assembly, has been arrested on a charge of high treason. ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, June 27.—Messrs. Fischer, Wolmarans, and Wessels, the Boer peace delegates, who have been on a visit to the United States endeavoring unsuccessfully to induce the Government ...
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Advertising : 303 wordsLONDON, June 26, 4.22 p.m.—During the attack of the Boers on the British post at Honingspruit 400 British who had been prisoners at Waterval, near Pretoria, and who were released on the ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, June 27.—The advance guard of Commandant Louis Botha's army, which was defeated at Eerste Fabrieken, has returned to the hills eighteen miles from Pretoria. ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, June 26, 4.22 p.m.—The railway from Natal is now open to Standerton. Vital portions of the machinery of the captured locomotives were found buried at Standerton. ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, June 28, 2.45 p.m.—During the recent attacks by the Boers under Commandant De Wet, on the railway in Orange River Colony, the enemy captured and burned the winter clothing of the ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, June-26, 4.22 p.m.—Five hundred British prisoners who had arrived at Machadodorp saluted President Kruger. The President raised his hat in return. ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 7 Jul 1900, Page 13
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