The War. Boer Leaders Surrender
A hundred Boers including George Grobelar and Nicholas Potzieter, two prominent leaders, surrendered to General Pl[?]mer at Warmbaad…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
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The War. More Guns Captured. London
THE Beer guerillas are being hard pressed by the British to the east of Vryheid, Colonel E.H.H. Allenby, of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, who has charge of operations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers and Heart Disease
It is not generally known that a very large proportion of infantry soldiers when discharged on pension suffer from heart disease, or as the faculty term it,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed in Action
It has been ascertained that private Pendenun, of the Now South Wales Mounted Infantry, who has heretofore been reported as missing, was killed at Bloemfontoin…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War-medal
The South African war medal will be issued shortly. There will be 24 clasps for the different (principal) engagements which have taken place since the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Relief Funds
Up to the end of December there had been subscribed for the relief of soldiers and sailors taking part in the war,and fur their families, the sum of £2,600,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Kruger. London
A correspondent of the Parisian journal "Matin" has interviewed exPresident Kruger at Utrecht, in Holland, Seated at a table with his old…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegraphic Intelligence. Later War News. British Losses in the War. London
THE British losses in the Boor war up to the end of March wore 14,728 killed, 775 missing. There were 2080 men discharged from the army as unfit for further service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Operations in the Transvaal. London
THE columns under Brigadier-Generals Dart nell and Alderson, in the south-eastern Transvaal, are driving the enemy southwards, and have captured 100 waggons, 6000 cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. London
The forces of Commandants Van Reenan and Luther, numbering a thousand men, crossed the Orange River at Mudefontein drift, by means of rapids. Twelve Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Botha's Movements. London
Commandant Botha, after staying with DeWet at Steyn's farm near Heilbron, has returned to the Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Relief of Rustenburg
The British garrison of Rustenburg has been relieved by a strong column, after three months siege. THE EFFECT OF THE QUEEN'S…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. the Capture of Pietersburg
It is reported that General Plamer's adavnce on Picturesburg and his capture of the town foiled preparations for another [?]vasion of Cape Colony…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Movements of Boer Leaders. London
Commandant Schalk Burger is now at Jonesburg, near Middleburge. Vorster, has gone to Spelonken, further to the castward…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Laws of War
The "laws of war," as at present formulated by the civilised nations, forbid the use of poison against the enemy; murder by treachery, as, for example, assuming the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Wessells Safe
It is reported from Heilbrou that Mr. Wessells, an envoy from the Kronstadt Committee, who it was alleged had been shot by De Wet, is alive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Lord Roberts' Dispatch. London
Lord Roberta' Dispatch of April 2. containing the November narrative to the end of that month, says that stupendous difficulties were confronted and overcome. Had the troops' line…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. London
Since Tuesday the British operating in the Northern Transvaal have taken 81 prisoners, besides 20 Boers who surrendered. The British have captured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Pro-boer Journalism. London
Mr. CARTWRIGHT, the editor of the "South African New," has been [?] convicted of libelling Lord Kitchener. Mr. Cartwright deposed that Mr. Stead had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegraphic Intelligence. Later War News. Kruitzinger Advancing. London
Kruitzinger is advancing in the Albert district of Cape Colony, and all the Boer radars have been ordered into the Orange River Colony…
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