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Article : 113 wordsPrince Clovis zu Hohenlohe, the German Chancellor and Premier, speaking in the Reichstag, refused to concur in proposal to repeal the ...
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Article : 681 wordsAlfredo Piatti, one of the most celebrated violoncellists of the day, is dead, aged 78. He was barn at Bergamo in 1822, and made his first appearance in ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is feared that the British losses at Koodoos Rand, and which occurred chiefly during the heavy fight on Sunday, were at least eleven hundred. ...
Article : 33 wordsMessrs. Rutter & Clarke, well known in Australian mining circles, have contributed £100 to the Indian Famine Relief Fund. ...
Article : 28 wordsGeneral Cronje, after having been surrounded for three days, and suffering tremendous losses, has asked for an armistice. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe prisoners brought into Lord Roberts' camp include many men from Ornerai Botha's commando, who were recently in action at Spion Kop. ...
Article : 42 wordsColonel Plumer made a night attack on the enemy at Crocodile Pools on the 12th inst., but failed to win any advantage. ...
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Article : 229 wordsThere was a large attendance of members at the annual meeting of the Australian Widows' Association to-day. The report and balance-sheet were unanimously ...
Article : 213 wordsCommander Dutoit acknowledges that he retreated from Riverton, north of Kimberley, and that the British cavalry captured all his guns. ...
Article : 24 wordsAnticipating the fast approaching time when President Kruger will be a refugee, the "Neueste Nachrichten," Berlin newspaper, in an inspired ...
Article : 35 wordsWheat.—Adverse crop reports from France hardened wheat, but the market has since slightly reacted on account of heavy Argentine shipments; 29/6 is ...
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Article : 56 wordsGeneral Buller's heavy guns are now all across the Tugela, and the Naval Brigade occupies all the hills towards Ladysmith. ...
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Article : 429 wordsLord Roberts has paid a warm tribute of praise to the heroism of the Canadians in charging a Boer laager. "The Times" correspondent at ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Premier states that he understood the outcome of conference with Mr. Warren, representative of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., would be that the ...
Article : 156 wordsQuarter-Master Sergeant Bishop, of the West Australian contingent, has died from sunstroke at De Aar. A shell killed Private Atchinson, of ...
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Article : 890 wordsLord Salisbury says Great Britain has made no engagement with any Power respecting the treatment of the Transvaal Republic after the war is ...
Article : 34 wordsA report has been current in London since the 20th inst., that General Cronje who succeeded in escaping from Mogersfontein with 5,000, had been caught up ...
Article : 243 wordsFifty prisoners, whoarrived at Colenso by railway from Ladysmith two days ago, state that the British losses in recent sortie were two officers and four ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Chief Secretary has asked, by telegraph, the New South Wales authorities for an explicit reply to the question whether they are able to provide transport ...
Article : 197 wordsHer Majesty's appeal to former officers and soldiers for the regalar army to join the new force, to be called the Royal Reserve Battalion for Home ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 24 Feb 1900, Page 3
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