19 MAY 1900, page 1

Since We Last Wrote Lord Roberts Has Made Another Great

stride in his advance. On Sunday the Government published a telegram from him announcing that he had occupied Kroonstad, that the Boers had fled from their strongly entrenched......

There Are The Usual Signs Of Unrest In The Balkan

Peninsula, and in Bulgaria in particular something is going on—a sort of peasant war apparently—about which the Government enforces silence, but there should be no serious......

The Second Ballots For The Municipality Of Paris Were Taken

on Sunday, and resulted in a complete victory for the Nationalists, who have now a majority of three in the Hotel de Ville. They threaten great things when the Exhibition......

Meantime, General Hunter Has Executed An Important Move-...

the West. Ile has moved op the north bank of the Vaal to Christiana, and has thus been the first of our generals to hoist the British flag in Transvaal territory. Methuen at the......

The Municipal Elections In Paris Have Been Marked By A

bizarre incident. The Comtesse de Martel, a lady of fifty who for the last thirty years ha e been a popular novelist under the name of "Gyp," declares that on the night of......

News Of The Week.

W E trust that before these pages are in our readers' hands the national anxiety in regard to Mafeking will be over. As we write, however, the one thing in men's minds is the......

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