... the fact that an officer of the Somerset Light Infantry, who had not seen a shot fired in South Africa, or undergone any of the hardship@ of the African war, has been brought in over the heads of those officers (who have) to command the regiment! Unless ...

... BOMBARDMENT OF The following telegram has been received at the War Offica trom the General Officer Commanding in South Africa :-- Capetown, 11th Nov., 1.40 p.m. Kekewich reports enemy very active 4th November, principally with object of driving off ...

... Russian War, in 1834, they had no less than eight steamers employed in various important commissions. For the War at the Cape in 1879, four steamers were under charter to the Admiralty as transports for a considerable period. In the Egyptian War of 1882 ...

... the Pori of London. Major Barton, of the Norfolk' Regiment, hu been appointed to the command of the 2nd Battalion in Booth Africa, vice Colonel Phillips, retired. The King and Queen of Sweden and Norway have returned to the Royal Palace. in Stockholm. ...

... with the inspection of the Irish Horse. who, it is understood, will be leaving by a fairly early date for the seat of war in South Africa. The inspection was a long and a critical one. It lasted close upon two hours, and during that time Lord Roberts closely ...

... more, I thought that the war would be at an end. I was also convinced that the Transvaal Govern. ment and the Council of War were in favour of making peace. And what do I see now? That you and President Steyn carry on a guerilla war. This made me write a ...

... Inniskilling Fusiliers, I came here to congratulate you all on having boon selected for service in the War in which we are now engaged in South Africa, and nowthat I have seen your battalion, I have no hesitation iu congratulating the Fifth Brigade of the ...

... whirl' he described, writing in the year 1896, the coining war with the Boers. General Hunter little realiard that two years from that conversation he himself would be in emninand to South Africa. He borrowed the b. from his smoking-room friend end read ...

... mittee. The proceedings terminated. During the last month the tide of emigration to South Africa set in strongly. In October, 1899, the first month of the war, only 942 emigrants left the United Kingdom for the Cape of Good Hope and Natal, while in October ...

... said—Reverend chairmen sad gentlemen, we are not bread to•night fee IWO Africa to witness the &ague, the hardship, sad the horrors of ghastly war, bat to poetise s the north-east corner of Africa, the Wiley of Nile, the land of Pharaos, where, while viewing the ...

... SUMMARY OF KILLED AND WOUNDED. The war Office has issued a summary of British losses io killed and wounded at the Battle of Elandslaagte on Saturday, compiled from the casualty telegrams received to date. Of the officers, five were killed and thirty wounded ...

... Richard Levinge, on behalf of those present allow me to congratulate you on your safe return from South Africa, that country where so awful a war has been raging and where so many of our country men have fallen. It ie impossible to express words our feelings ...