6 JANUARY 1900, page 9

A Well-planned And Completely Successful Feat Of Arms Is...

from the Western Frontier. On New Year's Eve Lieutenant-Colonel Pilcher left Belmont with a small flying column of about seven hundred men, including two hundred Queenslanders......

General Gatacre's Command Has Also Been Active During The...

Dordrecht, which was taken by the British at the beginning of the week, was later evacuated, the Boers having began a general advance in this region. Not only did they reoccupy......

News Of The Week.

T HE general military situation has not changed much since last week, but there have been movements in the southern and western sections of the theatre of war which have been,......

Colonel Pilcher's Capture Of The Boer Laager At Sunnyside Is

doubly welcome from the fact that his force was princi- pally composed of Australians and Canadians, who have thus struck the first blow and have been the first to shed their......

The Latest Items Of News From Natal All Indicate That

we are on the eve of great events, but very properly the newspaper correspondents, though allowed to tell us about the activity of the Boers, give no indications as to what are......

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