... the prevention of famine India, and the Earl of SELBORNK to a question regarding the settlement of soldiers in South Africa after the war. (24th.) A second reading ;was given to the Agricultural Holdings Bill, and a number of other measures were advanced ...

... the colours for service in South Africa. The War Office has issued a full list of the officers appointed for the First Army Service Corps. The full strength of the force which It is intended to send out to South Africa, over and above the troops already ...

... several very good men are at the front in South Africa. The war, however, will not merely deprive us of some of our own cricketers, but will prevent the team which it was proposed to send over from South Africa from paying us its promised visit. There are ...

... THE WAR IN THE TRANSVAAL. -° BROTHER SURRENDERS —NETHERLANDS B THAI RAILWAY REVELATIONS AT PRETORIA. Another week has passed without any tidings of a decisive nature arriving from South Africa, and the war now claims but a comparatively small amount of ...

... the spirit of the nation and to strengthen the resolve to carry through the war to the end until the British flag flies unchallenged over every part of South Africa. The War Office announces that the Sixth Division has been mobilised, and four battalions ...

... hospital train, which bears her name, and has been made at Birmingham, for service in connection with the war in 'South Africa. Princess Christian war shown how the train would be utilised. Notwithstanding the blusters of the insignificant section who are ...

... found in our preoccupation elsewhere. The political horizon was by no means so cloudless when the Dutch States of South Africa declared war, that our statesmen would feel tempted to stir questions that could be left dormant elsewhere. Chinese politics can ...

... Kelly-Kenny, who has been appointed to the command of the Sixth Division although he has not seen service in South Africa, has ad war service and has held important posts at home. He served in the campaign of 1860 in North China, where he was orderly ...

... soldiers now in South Africa was a memorable gathering—p. 974. GENERAL.—PubIic interest is still entirely absorbed by • the War in South Africa, but the Christmas holidays have not brought with them any sudden development in the situation. War is full ofeurprises ...

... members, who pointed out that the making of a speech under the circumstances would be irregular. He said the war in South Africa was a war of wanton and unprovoked aggression, undertaken at the instigation of Mr. Chamberlain and capitalists. Scenes of ...

... not in agreement with his views. Mr. John Morley, speaking at Forfar on 24th inst., referred to the campaign in South Africa as a war in the dark, brought about by the failure of British diplomacy. He ridiculed the statements, on the strength of a few ...

... THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. How little the reverse to Lord Methuen's column ten days ago has affected the general course of the war is illustrated by Lord Kitchener's report for the past week. The figures of captures and other Boer casualties are not specially ...