The War. London, May 7
A brilliantly well-planned combined movement at Brandfort caused the complete rent of the Boers. 4000 of the enemy held a strong line of…
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A brilliantly well-planned combined movement at Brandfort caused the complete rent of the Boers. 4000 of the enemy held a strong line of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fifteen Gordon Highlanders who were surrounded and charged the enemy with the bayonet killed 50 of the Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The British are encamped on the northern side of the Vaal River. Several thousand Boers are still in arms in eastern Free State. The farm…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While General Hutton was conducting a reconnaisance north of the Zand River the West Australians almost met with a disaster. The New…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The He[?] Cavalry have occupied [?] Major-General R[?] is adv[?] Most [?] news has been [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Roberts telegraphs that the Boers are in full retreat from Zand River. They occupied a position extending 20 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. C. A. [?] writes as [?] follows, his communi[?] being [?] interesting:—Since my last letter to you we have had a very [?] time, and have been is another [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The unfortunately large number of our men who were captured by the Boers during the campaign prompts the question, "How are prisoners of war treated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE following is a summary of cable news showing the progress of events connected with the war in South Africa since our last issue:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lord Roberts body guard of Colonials were the first to enter Kroonstadt. The march into the town was the most impressive scene of war. The whole of the British…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE have much pleasure in presenting to our readers the following communications from the front. Rev. R. H. D. Kelly kindly favors us with the following letter from his…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dr. Samuelson, late of Armidale says: "I always thought that brother Boer was plucky, but what I saw on the battle-fields, and from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The "man in the street," and the man who criticises the War from his comfortable arm-chair by the fire side, have been very impatient at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Among the [?] was [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE occupation of Kroonstadt, without resistance, by Lord ROBERTS, and the unmistakeable evidence that exists of the demoralisation and discomfiture of the Boers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Roberts telegraphs that the Boers are in full retre[?]t from [?] occupied a position extending 20 miles. The cavalry and horse artillery pursued them by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rumour Bays that Lord Kitchener, when he was last in England, made strenuous efforts to obtain a command, and even the command in South Africa,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →General Buller's cavalry, under Generals Dundonald and Bethune, outflanked the Boer position at Helkm[?]rker. The British seized a platea[?] and turned the Boer position on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy fighting occurred at Mafeking on Saturday and Sunday last. The enemy brought guns to bear at a short range, but the garrison surrounded…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →OUR war correspondent (says the Daily News) sends us the following description of Lord Roberts as he appeared at Paardeberg. Without any sign or…
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