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LI[?]UT- GENERAL, SIR LESLIE RUNDLE, commanding the 8th Division, on May 29 attacked a strong Boer position of six miles from S[?]kal. On account of his shelling failing to silence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Advices from Pretoria state that the people are furious at Kruger's desertion with a large amount of bullion, leaving the officials unpaid. The Council of Commandants has assumed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EVIDENTLY the soldiers who came into conflict with an alleged "push" in Market-street on Thursday night, or the "push" themselves, were not altogether satisfied…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A private cable received this afternoon states that a disaster happened to a party of New South Wales Mounted forces. The Colonial Secretary has cabled to Sir Alfred Milner for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CABLEGRAMS during the early part of the week indicated a general and successful British advance, and reported that Mr. Secretary Reitz had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Before Pretoria surrendered, the British artillery engaged the forts, their shells damaging two Krupp guns of the defenders, which alone answered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The British shells damaged two forts at Pretoria. A Krupp alone answered, and when our howitzer shells roared overhead and dropped in the suburbs Pretoria capitulated. General Botha's and General…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LORD ROBERTS is silent, which is taken as an indication that he preparing a great surprise in the direction of Majuba Hill in co-operation with General Buller…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The London EXPRESS publishes an interview with Kruger, who is now living in a specially fitted railway car at Machadodorp, on the Pretoria-Delagoa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following brief impressions of what the average Australian Tommy thinks of the war—particularly from the private and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Buller reports that after Friday’s engagement, 2,000 Laing’s Nek Boers abandoned a carefully prepared position. The British fought bravely, and now 'hold a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Baden-Powell has wired to the Governor of New Zealand expressing the hope that circumstances will permit him to visit that colony…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A prominent Sydney gentleman, who has just returned from Japan, speaking on the situation in the East, remarked that in Tokio two months ago it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One must seek illustrations for this theme in the days when war was the fashionable amusement of gentlemen, and the matter of fact trade of ru[?]s; when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Buller telegraphed on Sunday concerning Friday's engagement as follows:— "I found the enemy, numbering 2000, had abandoned a carefully prepared position, and had retired…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boers evacuated Laings Nek and Majuba Bill on Monday night. Hildyard forced Almond's Nek at the point of the bayonet. The British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following are the earlier cables of the week:— London, Saturday. The Tenth Brigade seized Vanwyk…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →1500 Boors surrendere! to Ganeral Brabant at Fixburg. The British prisoners of war released at Pretoria numbered 151…
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