Mining Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-02
issued: 1900-04-14
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note: ,������8. tax s*. VOL. 3.-N0. 44. SANDON, B.C., SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1900. FIVE CENTS. \n !��������� IS I... )' A t< 'I K������. HE IMI. Surprise May Be Their Intention��������� ..Raiding Orange Free State. Lord Roberts Waiting'Tor'Remounts and Winter Clothing. London, April 00���������5 a.m.���������Preparations are being made to hold Bloem- fontein against a surprise. Lord Kitchener has been given important duty, being responsible for the protection of railways, while Lord .Roberts is waiting for remounts and winter clothing for the .troops, whose thin cotton khaki uniforms and boots are worn out. Lord Roberts will probably for some time continue his operations of clearing the Free State of raiders preparatory to relieving Mafeking, for which purpose apparently the Eighth Division,now arriving at Cape Town,.has been ordered to Kimberly. Lady Sarah Wilson and other Mafeking correspondents send diaries of doings ttiore, showing that the Boers have tried, by abandoning trenches, to lure the beaeiged out into a mined ambush. Fortunately, the British engineers discovered the mine, cut the wire communication and unearthed the 25 pounds of dynamite and war gelatine. ��������� London, -April 9.���������The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, telegraphing Sunday, says : "Tho railway and telegraph are working well. Works and trenches have been prepared in suitable positions around. Bloemfontein. The greatest vigilance is exercised. Some of the troops sleep in the trenches. ''Conformation has been received of the reporit'nhac the Boers are in laager in considerable numbers, with guns, at Dinkersport, 18 miles southeast. The British scouts report another body still closer. The Boer patrols have grown veiy bold, venturing much nearer our tents!" . ' London, April 9.���������The' amazing ac- tivityof tlie Boers southeast and south- west-of Bloemfontein continues. The Boer commands are seemingly going and'eoming throughout a wide region as they please, ��������� bu…
note: Print Run: 1897-1903 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sandon (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0183081
language: English
lat: 49.975556
long: -117.227222
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sandon B.C. : Cliffe and Son
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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