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Newspaper
Traralgon Record
Location
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 04, 1900
Page
3
Fragmentary commercial item detailing mare and heifer sales, prices, and dates. Mentions auctions, advances on tent prices, and various livestock lots with uncertain dates and locations. Contains many garbled phrases and nonstandard spellings from OCR.
A noisy pastiche reports on Boer War tensions with British policy, noting a Belgo-Belgian apology incident and Kruger related commentary. It mentions a new volunteer regiment to be raised in Johannesburg called the Rand Rifles, reflecting regional defense efforts and public sentiment amid conflict.
Fierce four and a half hour engagement south of the Orange River Colony between Commandant and a Boer commando of 350 men. British forces under General Settles defend lines of communication. heavy fire and counterattacks with yeomanry and Lancashire units. Ruptured by sorties, Boer losses reported. separate notices announce Lord Roberts resigning command and General Hamilton issuing actions at Springs and Hevelberg amid broader colonial developments. A crowd gathers at railway stations as Kruger intervenes in Cologne.
Dispatches report Lord Kitchener advancing to assume command in South Africa within ten months. Boer forces near the Orange Free State press defense at Bromfontein. Major General Haden Powell resumes command of 25,002 mounted police as General De Wer operates in mountainous Natal.
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