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Tuesday afternoon.—Movements of British armies at the Cape greatly hampered by delay in transport of equipments. Sufficient waggons and mules…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1900
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The War
The Rev. Mr. Hormes, a minister from, Hanover, who has been a frequent visitor from the Boer camp across the Tugela, has been arrested by the British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Tuesday's News. Transport Delayed
Delay has arisen in the delivery of the transport equipment to the Army Corps now in South Africa, thus hampering the mobility of the forces under General…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Great Boer Conspiracy. a Tale of the Transvaal War. 1899-1900. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter Viii. a Religion Without a Heart
We entered Table Bay as the declining day cast its subdued light, mingled with fantastic shadows, across the harbor of that most picturesque of capital cities…
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General Erench controls the bridge leading into Orange Free State. The Boers are in strong force from Upper Tugela to Anton Holmes, and have formed a new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some Humours of War
IF peace hath her humours, so too has war; and, though fighting more often than not is very heavy work, it is not without its lighter side to relieve the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Produce and the War
It has come out that all the colonies except New South Wales are sharing splendidly in the enormous supplies required to feed and maintain for an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War London
Numbers of European officers arrive every week at Delagoa Bay, and proceed thence to Pretoria to assist the Boers in the campaign…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Telegraphic Intelligence
The latest from South Africa stales that Major-General French made a rapid nocturnal advance, the infantry riding in waggons, and found the enemy on Monday at dawn,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Transvaal War. London
The apparent reason for the delay in the British advance towards Ladysmith, in Natal, and Kimberly, on the western frontier, has been made public…
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General French made a rapid nocturnal advance on Sunday last, the infantry riding in waggons. They found the enemy on Monday at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Friday's News. Colonial Dutch with the Boers
In the Sunnyside engagement the occupants of the enemy's laager were mostly Colonial Dutch. GALLANT QUEENSLANDERS…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Great Boer Conspiracy. a Tale of the Transvaal War. 1899-1900. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter VIII.—Continued
"THE mass of our people," said the Rev. Coronation Goldstein, "are no doubt very ignorant, and many of the ministers are not much better than those over whom…
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The presence of detachments of the 9th and 12th Lancers at Sunnyside is preventing the Boers from advancing eastward. The column commanded by Col. T. D. Pilcher…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War
LONDON, January 4, 3.33 p.m.--Lieutenant-Colonel [?] of the Imperial Army, who was in command of the combined Queensland-Canadian force, which drove the Boers from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic Intelligence. the War. Fighting at Colesberg. the Boers Dispersed. London
With a view to repressing communication with Botha's Drift by a waggon bridge 1000 Boers at five o'clock on Thursday morning attacked the British left flank three miles north…
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The New South Wales Lancers under Captain Lee were sent to prevent the looting of the wrecked commissariat train at Rensteig…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News. Tuesday 9th January
Baden Powell made another determined attack on Boer position outside Mafeking. A night surprise was arranged and a picket force despatched to storm the fort…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Tuesday's News. Surrender of Kuruman
The Boers, in strength, bombarded Kuruman on Monday. The garrison, consisting of 120 police, including twelve officers, surrendered in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Battle at Colesberg. The Boers again Defeated. Many Killed and Wounded. The Work of the Lancers. Buller Shelling the Enemy With 83 Guns. (By Cable.) London, January 7
A thousand Boers on Thursday attacked the British left [?]ank, three miles from Colesberg. The Enniskil[?] Dragoons charged right through the…
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