... to inspect the Battalion prior to its departure for active mita* in South Africa. It war accordingly smelted to parade tee men Ono morning. The TAU&lion was practically up to war strength, with the exception of the reserviats, who are due to come iu to-day ...

... FRENCH CRUISERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA. Paris, Saturday. The Journal states that five cruiaera o£ the French Squadron, now lying at the Piraeus, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness proceed to South Africa. THE BASUTOS QUIET. Maseru (via ...

... Institution hd„ tamed, acd ii sustaining, in consequence tbe otjneros' wbich have been made tue country connection with the War Africa and the Indian Famine, to give no orders for six months, except in special and circumstances, for new buildings and rlipways ...

... to have been blundering on the part of some of tbe commanders, blundering on the part of the War Office, and more especially of the Medical Department of the War Office, which may easily itrow into a widespread demand for retribution upon somebody,and that ...

... and tooth for tooth, but that we are convinced would be fatal policy. Briton and Boer have to live together in South Africa after the war, and it would be a calamity if a spirit of retribution supervened to further widen the gulf that now separates them ...

... than he the weak parts of our military machine. His long and varied career, and the valuable experience he has gained South Africa war waged under modern conditions with the recently invented armaments, will enable him *orm sound judgment as to what ought ...

... final march upon Pretoria. As is the calculations of our Military Council at the War Office had been upset feeble estimate ot our Intelligent Department in South Africa. When war was declared it was supposed tbat the Boer fighting force numbered no more than ...

... the end the war such revolutionary schemes, because hasty conclusions as to what lesson the war was teaching might lead very far astray. The War was being led the remount question, for instance, into exaggeration of the errors of the war before they had ...

... transported from their home land for ever. We do not want to rob South Africa of thousands of its most stubbornly virile sons. We shall want every man presently build up South Africa, when war is ended, and Lord Rosebery's policy of amnesty has been applied ...

... but without the questionable feature mentioned the last paragraph, have been met with in remount vouchers from South Africa, and the War Office are endeavouring to complete the vouching in these instances. Large purchases cobs and horses have been made ...

... her so grown to have become unprecedinted. and at tbk crisis we have tin lower of the <hb Army looked up in South Africa in a war which, as Lord Kim- WWI esys, may last for some time, and upon the top of that great undertaking we have a state of affairs ...

... ‘Birdwood, 11th Bengal Lancers, and Steff officer to Lord Dundonald, has been appointed to the local rank of while in South Africa. EXETER WAR SPECIAL. | (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Boer Camp, Glencoe, March 22. Four loud reports were heard to-day in the direction ...