... OUR. LESSER AFRICAN WARS British forces are engaged in three minor expeditions in Africa in addition to the fighting in the Transvaal. One is engaged in the Gambia territory, West Africa; a second expedition, 1,500 miles to the south-east, is working ...

... THE GREAT BLOCKHOUSE SYSTEM IN SOUTH AFRICA. How the 3,500-mile cordorv of little forts b\iilt by Lord Kitchener and his army are helping to bring the fighting to a close. The blockhouse system, inaugurated by Lord Kitchener about the end of De cember ...

... picture at the bottom of the page is Lance-Corporal Carr, the smallest bugler in West Africa. He already wears a medal, and has been in every engagement in this war. The man on his left is Sergeant Thomas, the most famous scout in Ashanti. He has the ...

... The Victors of Kandahar and Khartoum in South Africa. In going out to South Africa to assume supreme command of all our forces there, Lord Roberts of Kandahar was accompanied not only by his Chief of the Staff, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, but also by ...

... have not suffered and made sacrifices on account of the war.-- H JiM. at Pietcrmaritzburg I greatly deplore the continuance of the lament able struggle which has so long prevailed within South Africa, and for the speedy termination of which the whole community ...

... THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. When our troops reached Newcastle in June, one of the first things they did was to erect the Union Jack upon the grave of General Penn Symons, who fell at Glencoe on October 20. The other Newcastle picture given ...

... quite different on his landing in 1900 We must all recognise that the war of 1881 could not have had such far-reaching results that this war has had. the benefits of which to South Africa will, I believe, be felt to be greater and greater as time goes on ...

... THE NEED OF MOUNTED INFANTRY FOR THE WAR. The opening of the new year finds us still in the field in South Africa, fighting not only the actual members of the late Republics, but the antagonism of some of the Dutch in Cape Colony. Lord Kitchener, left ...

... THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR FROM WEEK TO WEEK. The war in South Africa is not over, and yet it has dwindled in public interest so much that the daily newspapers have begun to give the premier place to the crisis in China. Lord Roberts has recently sent home ...

... from those inflicted even during the Crimean war. It might be thought that with more destructive weapons the nature of the wounds would be appalling, but the universal testimony of surgeons in modern wars is that the modern small-bore weapon is a more ...

... calcu lated to give people a sense of the terrible horrors of war. But is it desirable at a time like this, when many families are in mourning, to emphasise too strongly the horrors of war In any case virtue has been rewarded, for it has since come to ...

... THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR FROM WEEK TO WEEK. The war has begun to move again with some of the old rapidity. The chain of Boer commandoes is feeling the pressure of a superior force and cannot well make a serious stand for long anywhere. As we write we learn ...