... the British position becoming worse makes better. In view of the comparative weakness of the British troops in South Africa when war was declared by the Boers, was inevitable that tho first stage in the operations should full of anxiety and difficulty ...

... the War Office. aggravated feature in the case was that the prisoner had been previously convicted of a precisely similar fraud. Oa that occasion he adopted the name of another V.C. hero, and pretended that he had a sum of £l3O to draw from the War Office ...

... Windsor Great Park, by the residents the Royal demesne to the memory of Major Prince Christian Victor, who died in South Africa during the war. The windows, which represent the figures o! St. Michael and St. George, will be unveiled Sunday next. ...

... Both of them, oh* vioudy, have been suggested the war Africa. “Home in War Time” is selection from the poems by Sydney Dobell contained in the entitled Sonnete on. tike War (1855) and “England in Tims of War” (1866 V These books, course, had ...

... 58-82% 3 Chilian 1888.-182 4) 4 9O Chilian 1892.-190 2 A Vl.'w WAR MAP 78 Chilian 1895.-177 9) 10^8-779 A W Ait MAI. i Chilian 1896.-189 90) 10.58-89 91 A lew coloured war map of South Africa, pub- 101 Chinese saver 1891.-(1013i 10.58-101 3 v ih« Times ...

... can be entrusted to no other hands, in actual conditions, than to those Sir A. Milner. . . . Our first need in South Africa after the war will be prosperous agricultural population, and prosperous agricultural population not of one blood alone. To satisfy ...

... MOVEMENTS OF TEOOFS. Out of till! 70 officer students the Camberloy Staff College, 27 have already been sout to South Africa. To-day the War Office placed the following under orders proceed:— Brevct-Alaj. G. J. King. Eoyal West Surrey Regiment; Capt. the ...

... Tartini’s and Mr. Percy Pitt’s Ballade,” accompanied by the composer. EMIGRATION TO SOOTH AFRICA. WAR OFFICE ORDER. The following notice h&s been issued from the War Ofllce; —In consequence the establishment of martial law at all South African ports, it ...

... efßciency. Last year tntion suffered considerably financially in con sequence numerous appeals made in connection with tne War Africa and the Indian Famine Fund. , In 1900 the Institution granted rewards for string ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS wiu ...

... been ordered to be prepared by the details of the South Lancashire Regiment embark on August 1 for South Africa. ITEMS OF WAR NEWS. • i* 1 ® War Office has decided that time spent hospital, on furlough sick furlough, or on ®oard ship hy Yeomanry or Volunteers ...

... draft of the Royal Army Medical Corps left Aldershot for Southampton to embark on the hospital ship Dunera for South Africa. ITEMS OF WAR NEWS. The Durban correspondent of the Standard states that recruiting has recommenced for the Imperial Light Horse ...

... Club’s Show at the Crystal Palace u days). United Service Institution: M. J. Farelly, LL.D., on ** Oar Hold on South Africa after the War.” 3. Imperial South African Afsociation: Lecture atEarby (York*). Chambers of Agriculture: Meeting at the Society of ...