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...officers for next year: President, Jacobus Christiaan Bosman '15, of Pretoria, South Africa; first vice-president, Pedro Campos uC., of Ponce, Porto Rico; second vice-president, Tse-Vung Soong uC., of Shanghai, China; secretary, Abraham Jacob Krachmalnikoff '16, of Odessa, Russia; treasurer, Johannes Samuel van Heerden '15, of Middeburg, Transvaal, South Africa; councilors, Professor Masaharn Anesaki, Mr. Reinhold Friedrich Alfred Hoernie, and James Campbell Manry...
...History of the Transvaal", by H. R. Haggard...
...Colenso, Spion Kop and Vaalkrantz, besides being on active campaigning duty at other times. On January 25, 1902, he was captured by the British and sent to St. Helena, where he was imprisoned until the end of the war. He was also a member from Johannesberg in the Transvaal Volksraad...
General Viljoen, second in command of the Transvaal forces during the latter part of the late war, will speak in the Living Room of the Union next Friday evening. Members of the Union, only, will be admitted...
...Free State. The English interfered in Natal and the Boers withdrew, then the English seized Orange Free State, but finding the Kaffirs troublesome, abandoned it and siezed Basuto Land. In 1878 diamonds were found in the Orange Free State and England promptly seized it. Gold was found in the Transvaal and the country was immediately overrun with foreigners. Everything was done by the Boers to keep peace with them, but when the freedom granted by England in 1884 was threatened the Boers stood firm and war was the result...