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... reconciled as it can be to any new impost. The third remains in the fact that the expenses of resettlement in South Africa, and of winding up the war, amply as they will be repaid in the long run, must for the moment be very large. It is far from being an edifying ...
... fickl months ago it was impossible for a newspaper of any kind to avoid mention of the war, but in these clays it is generally admitted that references South Africa are wearisome, if not in bad taste; everybody is tired of the affair, and the multitudinous ...
... news that dribbles in from the seat of war, if indeed war be not now too big a name for it, consists of a series of small surprises. The surprises are small, but they are significant. In other periods of the war there were surprises more than enough, ...
... in some part of an Empire such as this, to which that of Rome was not so much as a circumstance, there is always a war, or a sort of a war, going on. Just at present, however, the door would be opened very widely, for, the Lord Chancellor notwithstanding ...
... contribute his quota towards a settlement of the account that has been run The duty is disagreeable, and up by our army in South Africa. yet not one to be s hirked. More steadfastly than might have been expected the nation, or rather the whole Empire, has s ...
... They go on to say: Are we going to have all this fuss and demonstration over every body of troops which returns from the war? We do not associate ourselves with this view. Firstly, the expression of loyal enthusiasm not only hurts no man, but turns ...
... the library : Dr. W. Barry. S. C. Grier. A COSY CORNER. f April 7th, 1900. common features possessed by the Boer War and the American Civil War. Those who like hard hitting in contro,·ersy may turn for amusement 10 the correspondence, where, after a con ...
... the scanty mess all through the war, or the spontaneous fashion in which with a fe w associates he organised a private and successful expedition against a troublesome band of brigands. this early period of the Peninsular War, too, that he received a bullet ...
... welcome to us; they will be equally welcome' to all, and especially to men on service in South Africa, who hold that the unprecedented humanity with which this war has been carrie? on has been, in the long run, conducive to prolongation Proverbial ~·isdom ...
... at 3 lnd 8. BRITON, BOER and BLACK in SAVAGE AFRICA. THE GREAT KAFFIR KRAAL. THE ROYAL BIORAMA. Actual Living Pictures from the Front. The Largest ever seen A Stupendous New Show, Illustrating Peace and War. The Real Armoured Tra in in Actual Battle. THE ...
... Jersey, that T aylor took the title of open champion. It was from Mr. J ohn Ball laying clown his claim by absence in Sou:h Africa that Mr. l lilton received the amateur ti tle. Scotland, therefore, stands exactly where she did from tha i pc>int of view ...
... 819 many a good red-deer stag. That lamentable cause is, of course, the war, which still, unhappily, lingers on in South A man cannot, at one and the same time, be defend- Africa. A man cannot, at one and the same time, be defending the Empire on the ...