Lord Roberts reports that his forces in the Pretoria district have commenced a general advance eastward. Major-General Pole-Carew, with the Guards Brigade, is ...
Article : 297 wordsTelegrams from the Gold Coast Colony report that Lieutenant-Colonel Wilcockes, whose column lately succeeded in relieving Coomassie, which had for six weeks been ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Russians, Router's correspondent states, seek to control the railway line from Taku, at the Pei-ho mouth, through Tien Tsin to Pekin, while the French are ...
Article : 242 wordsThough the Russian reports of the state of affairs on the Siberian frontier of Manchuria made light of the Chinese attacks on Russian posts, and announced that the ...
Article : 127 wordsThe strength of the Free State force with which General De Wet forced the British cordon of posts near Bethlehem must have been underrated, for Colonel ...
Article : 211 wordsRenewed attempts have been made by the Boers between Standerton and Heidelberg to cut General Buller's railway communications with Natal. Major-General ...
Article : 67 wordsFurther reports have been received of British operations in Swaziland, to which Lord Strathcona's scouts were alleged to have made their way through Amatongaland, and ...
Article : 63 wordsThe panic at Shanghai, which, though covered by the guns of the European war ships in the estuary of the Yang-tse-kiang, has been much agitated by the report that ...
Article : 105 wordsLord Methuen, pare of whose division is operating west of Pretoria, in the Rustenburg district, where the surrendering Boers are again in arms, on Saturday, 21st inst., ...
Article : 87 wordsA sharp engagement took place on Saturday, 21st inst., 10 miles west of Bethlehem, between a force of Boors Strongly posted on a rocky hill and a body of British troops, ...
Article : 68 wordsColonel Morland, in command of one of the divisions advancing on Coomassie, has gained a brilliant victory over the enemy. His force surprised a large Ashantee camp ...
Article : 64 wordsLi Hung Chang has rescinded the order given for the march of a large force of the Black Flags to Pekin, a proposal which was objected to on the ground that it would ...
Article : 51 wordsPretorian telegrams report that the column under Lieutenant-Colonel Airey, commanding the New South Wales contingent of bushmen, and Major Lushington, on ...
Article : 265 wordsLord Roberts reports that Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Hunter, whose command is engaged in the Orange River Colony, east, of ...
Article : 174 wordsA report from Russian sources states that Chinese troops, of whom 40,000 from the Pekin army were detailed by Prince Tuan to make a demonstration against ...
Article : 87 wordsA disastrous collision occurred in the Irish Channel on Saturday morning during a fog. The well-known Cunard liner Campania, 12,950 tons, running between Liverpool and ...
Article : 170 wordsA detachment of South Australian mounted infantry, while reconnoitring near Pinaar's Poort, 12 miles east of Pretoria, on Saturday, became engaged in ...
Article : 129 wordsThe defensive preparations of the Chinese Imperial forces in the south have been pushed on since Li Hung Chang left Canton. A considerable number of quick-firing Krupp ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Executive Council has now confirmed the following appointments to the Victorian Naval Contingent for China:-- Commander Frederick Tiekell, officer in ...
Article : 247 wordsGeneral Sir Leslic Rundle has had a sharp engagement, lasting seven hours, with the Boers holding the mountains around Kooikrantz, north of Ficksburg, on the Basuto ...
Article : 46 wordsA disastrous collision between steamers, caused through the prevailing heavy fogs, occurred yesterday on Belfast Lough, in the North of Ireland. The ...
Article : 120 wordsTelegrams from Pretoria report that Lord Roberts's general advance eastward along the Delagon Bay railway towards Midleburg is being vigorolusly prosecuted. The ...
Article : 153 wordsIn the House of Lords last night the marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary for War, in reply to a question by the Earl of Carrington, formerly Governor of New South ...
Article : 100 wordsLord Roberts reports with respect to the raid made by Do Wet's commando of 2000 men which broke through General Sir Leslie Rundle's cordon of posts near ...
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Advertising : 243 wordsThe War Office has gazetted Lieu[?] E. O. Anderson, of the Second Victorian contingent, to a commission as second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. ...
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Advertising : 48 wordsIt has been arranged that the Victorian Naval Contingent shall embark and sail for China next Tuesday. The Government has received a telegram, through the ...
Article : 131 wordsThree more Victoria Crosses have been awarded to participants in the Boer war, as follows:--To Captain Meiklejohn and Sergeant-Major Robertson, both of the 2nd ...
Article : 63 wordsThe War Office reports that Corporal Oscar David King, of the First Contingent, who was dangerously wounded in the late engagement near Hatherley, has succumbed ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Premier, Sir William Lyne, to-day stated that, so far as he could judge, the New South Wales contingent to be sent to China would consist entirely of naval men. ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 28 Jul 1900, Page 25
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