War News
LORD ROBERTS, Commander of the British forces, has entered Bloemfontein, the capital City of the Orange Free State, in a despatch sent to the Home Office by…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1900
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Boer War Notes
The past week has undoubtedly been a good one for the British arms in South Africa. The very threat of President Steyn, that the capitulation…
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Presidents Kruger and Steyn, in their peace overtures, state that British territory was only occupied for strategical defence purposes. Dutch loyalty is…
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Sergeant Looney, of the Commissariat Department, has been degraded at Mafeking and sentenced to five years in prison for stealing rations…
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LORD ROBERTS, referred to the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Umphelby, of the Victorian forces, at Driefontein, and to other deaths which have followed upon…
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Gaily sound the drum and bugles On the early morning air; Prancing steeds and gleaming weapons, Show the glitter everywhere…
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LORD ROBERTS and his army are having a walk-over" just now, Hundreds of Boers have surrendered, and others returned to their farms…
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Eight hundred Free State burghets at Edenburg, a town In the south-west portion of the State, have surrendered. In the Orange River district some…
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THE cables announce that 800 Free State Burghers have surrendered to Major-General Pole Carew at Edenburg, midway between Springfontein and Bloem fontien;…
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At Bloemfontein the proclamation by the Governor, Major-General Prettyman, calling on all burghers within a radius of 10 miles to submit and disarm is being…
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IN an interview with a press representative at Pretonia, President Kiuger expressed himself as unmoved to any extent by the recent British successes. ''We do not expect…
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Lord Kitchener has occupied Prieska without opposition, he rebels in the town surrendering upon his arrival. A grave has been discovered at Pleters…
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It is difficult to fully realise how completely the shifting scenes of the South African war have changed during the past few weeks. Bloemfontein…
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Lord Roberts and Sir Alfred Milner are settling the conditions for the surrender and administration of the Orange Free State and the treatment…
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ON Saturday last the cables informed us that it was unofficially announced that the brave little garrison at Mafcking had been relieved by Colonel Plumer's force of…
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SUBSCRIPTIONS are coming in liberally at Epping towards the erection of a memorial tablet in the local Presbyterian Church in relation to the late Private…
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SIR,—My attention has been drawn to a series of letters appearing in the Kiama press, in which an insignificant exhibitor names George Somerville, has been…
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BADEN-POWELL, in command of the Mafeking gartison, reported "all well" on the 13th instant. Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, credits Captain Lord…
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Colonel Baden-Powell reported that Mafeking was "all well" on March 13 and that the cordon of the besiegers had been much relaxed…
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SIR.—My attention has been drawn to a series of letters appearing in the Kiama press, in which an insignificant exhibitor at the late Kiama show, named George…
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