The Bad News From The Modder River Has Very Properly
been followed by an official announcement that "a Sixth Division has been mobilised, and that four battalions of it will have embarked by Sunday next." A Seventh and an Eighth......
As The Daylight Grew Ouir Artillery Got Into Position, And
the naval guns opened fire with Lyddite shells and searched the trenches and kopjes in every direction. At the same time the Gordons and the survivors of the Highland Brigade......
News Of The Week.
T HE news from the front during the past week has been for the most part bad. We have dealt below with General Gatacre's unfortunate failure in his night attack at Stormberg, in......
On Sunday The British Forces Under General Gatacre Met With
a severe reverse owing to an unsuccessful attempt to storm a position held by the Boers at Stormberg. General Gatacre moved a force of all arms about two thousand strong to......
There Is Little News From General Buller, But It Is
evident that he has completed his preparations for an advance, and it seems almost certain that before these pages are in our readers' hands, or very soon after, we shall at......
