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General Sir Redvers Buller cables to the War Office that the position held by General Warren up to Thursday was perfectly tenable, although an advance on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Public feeling is very acute regarding the position of the British forces in South Africa, and more especially respecting the recent operations of Generals Buller…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Warren has captured Spion Kop, the key to the Beer position in Natal. The Beers retreated across the ravine. The British artillery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is reported from a Transvaal source that Mafeking was relieved on the 23rd inst. (presumably by Colonel Plumer). General Buller on Thursday last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It now appears General Ballers explanation is that Spion Kop was too. extensive a position to hold with the forces available, and the water supply was also…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An engagement was fought at Chiveley on Tuesday between General Barton's brigade and the enemy, and the British had two killed and seven wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALL the loading newspapers are now receiving novel suggestions for "wiping something off a slate" with a mere flip of the finger, so to speak…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following interesting letters from Sergeant Sid. Barnes, son of Mr. J.F. Barnes, M.P., and Trooper Reeseh, son of Mr. R. Reesch, will be very welcome reading here:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cape Times contains an important letter from Mr Theodore Schieiner a brother of the Cape Premier, well known for his temperance and religious work, based on a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In taking Spion Kop the British were within 30 yards of tho Boer trenches, before the garrison awoke. At day break on Wednesday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boers have largely reinforced the ridges of Tabnngama. The Boers are expected to make a stand at Dewdrop or Amot Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peculiar interest will attach in every part of the Empire to the session of the Imperial Parliament, which has now commenced its sittings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE opinion is growing amongst military critics that an entire change must be made in the British plan of campaign. It is pointed out that both in Natal and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An influential meeting of Swiss scientists, held at Zurich, in Switzerland, has urged the Swiss press to remember Britain's services to civilisation, and to retrain from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Marquis of Salisbury in the House of Lords, in reply to Lord Kimberly's criticisms, declared that the cause of all our sorrow in South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is expected that the offer of 50 addi tional Lancers for service in South Africa will be accepted. The Minister of Education recently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Capetown correspondent of the "Daily Mail" cables that General Baller on Monday read to Sir Charles Warren's force a message from the Queen, expressing her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Capetown correspondent of the "Daily Mail" cables that on Monday General Sir Redvers Buller read to the forces comprising General Warren's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest advices from the seat of war put the total causalities at Ladysmith at nearly 4000 in the last big engagement. I would draw your attention to much…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Continental Military authorities declare that the Boer position around Ladysmith impregnable and the British must seek a new field for operation…
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