... for the Colonies in -1896. He said- A war ?? Africa would be one of the most serious wars-that could possibly be waged-. It would be in the nature of a civil war. It would be a long war, a bitter war, a costly ...

... OF GUERNSEY MILITIA- MEN. General Saward, Governor of Guernsey, who left the island on Wednesday bearing a petition to the War Office signed by the mutinous members of the nilitia, returned yesterday, but his instruc- tioe are not yet known. Eleven of ...

... AFFAIRS IN WEST AFRICA. I 6II FIGHTING WITH THE ILLAHS. BRITISH GUNBOATS IN AMTON. P1RESS ASSOCIATION. FOEnION SPECIAL. LIVERPOOr,, JAN. 1-The mail ste~amer Oleuda, Elder Dempster line, from West Africa, docked here this moe-sing, and landed the following ...

... INEWS FROM WEST AFRICA. EXPEDITION AGAINST A FETISH CHIEF. A BISHOP OHARGED WITH LIBEL. t FRFSS ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPECIAL. Ln-nrooL, MoenAvY.-The Elder, Dempeter liner Oron arrived in the MVersey to-day from W:;est Africa and the Canary lsands. Amongst ...

... conviction that we have earnestly desired peace. Though war is imminent, though it may be that at the moment that I ain speaking wvar has actually begun, that war is none of our seeking. That war is none of our desire, but it has been forced upon us, forced ...

... COLONIAL AND WAR OFFICES. A QUIET DAY. There appears to be no sign of Mr. Charmber- lain's speedy return to London, and yesterday the Colonial Office had one of the quietest days since L affairs in the Transvaal reached a critical stage. At the War Office, ...

... steamship Nul).:t was owned by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and was chartered by the Government to dice troops to South Africa. The vessel left Soathampton on October 21st, with some fifteen hundred sokdiers, and re.ched St. Vincent on the 29th. leaving ...

... people and egg them on to war. Alone amongst the London dailies, the Daily Chronicle has the pluck to speak out clearly and frankly about the origin of the war, which it anticipates will be bloody and protrtcted. a South Africa, in fact, has been made ...

... 1876, when he was severely wounded; also served in the Zulu war of 1879 and in the operations against Seku- kuni, when he was mentioned in despatches. His other services include the Egyptian war of 18S2, taking part in the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, Burmese ...

... Monday Sir William Harcourt, in his Tredegar speed made use of the following ?? first and last word of these goldhunters is war, in order to lead to annexation. A correspondent har ing drawn Lord Salisbury's attention to thb utterance, and asked his lordship ...

... He had just been made a second lien. tenant for his services in Afghaaistan. wher he was ordered to South Africa to tnke part in the Tran6vaal War. He was present with his regiment, the Gordor{ Highlanders, at Majuba, and was taken prisoner by the Boers ...

... thle Oovernment's South Afrian plicy i-being evident to them that the war had been inevitable, not because of faulty diplomacy, but owing to Boer designs to usurp supremacy on South Africa; secondly, in main- taining the Unionist Alliance; and, thirdly, in ...