... nightly, in a long and closely reasoned article, discusses the various courses open to us in making a settlement in South Africa after the war. It is scarcely worth while following him into the reasons which he gives to show that any course other than annex ...

... was educated at Wellington College, and joined the Durham Light Infantry in 1899. He went to South Africa with his regiment at the beginning of the war, and was attached to the Ladysmith Relief Force. He was present at the battle of Colenso, and in the ...

... Mesurier and Winifred Marshall, Kensington, Lieutenant Richard John J. Jelf, R.E., died at sea on his homeward voyage from South Africa. He was the 'eldest son of Colonel R. H. Jelf, C.M.G., commanding Royal Engineers, Eastern District, and was born January ...

... into the 6th Dragoon Guards, and received a lieutenant's commission in 1899. Soon after the outbreak of the war he was ordered to South Africa, and at the end of his first month's campaigning he was captured by the Boers while making a heroic attempt ...

... continue to be deluded as to the course of the war. Then, again, the Commander-in-Chief has greatly relaxed, if not entirely abolished, the censoring of letters as aji officer writes from the front: The war correspondent will hold a much freer and more ...

... twenty years of age, enlisted as a trooper in Lord Lovatt's Corns of Highland Scouts in February, 1900, and proceeded to South Africa. He was much injured by his horse falling on him in July while scouting for General Rundle, in company with other six Scouts ...

... Cljvanklc of tlje-lar By CHARLES LOWE At Pretoria AT the seat of war during the past week public interest was divided between Pretoria, Ladysmith, Thabanchu, Winburg, Brandfort, Bloemfontein, Warrenton, and Mafeking. In opening a new Session of the Volksraad ...

... many thousand- throated cries, in themselves a decided enough proclamation of the Empress-Queen's supremacy over all South Africa, with which Her Majesty's Christmas and New Year greetings to her troops were read forth to them on parade in every camp. ...

... perhaps, because of the boasted forts surrounding it having been denuded of their heavy guns for service elsewhere during the war. One of Lord Roberts's first cares on entering the town, which the Boer forces would appear to have evacuated during the night ...

... occupation of Wepener. Better troops than these Volunteers promise to prove after a little more experience of war are not to be found in South Africa. I inspected, wired Lord Roberts at the beginning of the week, the City Imperial Volunteer Battalion yesterday ...

... 23,000 men, including more than 11,000 invalided home as unfit for the work of war. For disease is ever more fatal to the soldier than bullets. Since the beginning of the war the total number of those who have actually been killed in action, or afterwards ...

... perhaps, the past week has been the quietest we have had since the war commenced-- now well on to seven months ago-- and that at Bloemfontein there was not much to engage the attention of the war corre spondents before Generals Rundle and Pole-Carew set out ...