... council of war. This was the arrival at the Cape of Ficld-Marshal l.ord Roberts, accompanied by Lo:d Kitchener, and his assumption of the office of Generalissimo-or War-Lord, as the German Emperor A ould phrase it-of all our forces in South Africa, which ...

... he Mar in 0mttll ?? The End In View PERHAPS the best sign that the Boer War is now at last approach- ing the end of what can no longer be called a war in the ordinary sense is the fact-not that four of Lord Roberts's chargers have been sent down to Cape ...

... has wisely decreed that in future all burghers in districts occupied by the Imperial forces shall be regardad as prisoners of war, and transported or otherwise dealt with accordingly, with the exception of those who have already taken the oath, and that ...

... placed to our credit account by Plumer and others in various parts of the seat of war; while Buller had been doing his best to occupy Lydenburg and thuis practically end the war by seizing the immense quantities of stores of all kinds which have been accumulated ...

... Zlec E'a;ar in 4aut1h Africa 1- it still correct to speak of a war in South Africa ? Scarcely, %icw of Land ldobertss proclamation to the Boers, dated the , i>t., ?? follow ed hard on ?? Kruger's flight tlhe l'ranscaalnand arrival at Loureicwo Marques ...

... oom, was twenty-six years of age. He served in the Rhodesia Wars of 1893 and i896, and received the medal and clasp. He also took part in subduing the Phokwani Rebellion. In the present war he took part in the defence of Kimberley, and was one of those ...

... degree of painfulness, that there is a mystery of Pretoria as well as of Peking, or at any rate that the situation in South Africa is just as confused and unsatisfactory as it is in China. But the darkness of this confusion was fitfully illuminated by one ...

... (,t Mar' in ialltkh 4frita DURING the past week public interest in the war in South Africa may be said to have been pretty equally divided between its figures and its fighting. As for the figures, the chief of these were contained in a supplementary estimate ...

... that the time has at last really come for the proclamation of the Queen's peace throughout all South Africa, and for the official termination of the war. Our bulletins for the last week have lormed an unbroken record of unopposed advance, captures of immense ...

... qhe Mar in sputa 'Aftiza De Wet and Olivier THERE is now every sign that we are at last nearing the end of our wearisome war with the Boers, in spite of the fact that the egregrious De Wet has once more escaped our toils and actually appeared in the ...

... Uitlanders may be accomplished without the race-embittering expedient of war, seems rather thin and washy. To quote Mr. Garrett once more, When you have said that war in South Africa would be a crime, you have advanced the controversy little: it remains ...

... Zhit tituatio1t in -oluth Iftiza I r may now be said that the war in South Africa has given place to the military, or rather to the police, situation in the two newest Colonies of the British Crown. General Baden-Po ell has returned to Pretoria to take ...