28 OCTOBER 1899, page 1

As Soon As There Was Sufficient Light Our Artillery, Which

has been handled magnificently throughout, opened fire and soon silenced the Boer batteries. The Dublin Fusiliers and the 60th Rifles were then ordered to assault the bill, and......

News Of The Week.

T HE war has begun in earnest, and we have to chronicle three distinct actions which future military historians will probably call mountain engagements, but which, in the ex-......

The Second Action Of The War Occurred At Elandslaagte On

Saturday. General White discovered that a force of Boers had broken the railway communication between Ladysmith and Glencoe, had seized the station at Elandslaagte, and had......

The Third Action Was At Kietfontein On Tuesday. General...

had ordered General Yule, in command at Glencoe after General Symons was wounded, to join forces with him at Ladysmith, as Glencoe was not tenable by so small a body of men in......

The Continental Press Is Still Hostile To Great Britain, But

its comments on the war in South Africa differ greatly in tone. The French papers, as a rule, affect still to see in the news evidence that the British will be beaten, which......

As We Write, The Military Situation May Be Summed Up

as follows. General White, with a force of about twelve thousand men of all arms, is holding a strong camp at Ladysmith. He is confronted by a large force of Boers, who may......

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