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... The War, to use the expression of a leading theatrical manager, is playing old Harry with the playhouses. Not since the Crimean War has such an abstention from theatre-going been recorded, and most of our managers do not remember that campaign. At the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1002 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

SIR HARRY SMITH

... impression upon South Africa. In both war and peace he was a success. Kaffirs and Boers learned his different moods. His tact and charm won him various bloodless victories his temper, his experience, and determination crowned his wars with natives and with ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 614 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

... THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. The war in South Africa, into which this country has been forced by the aggressive action of the two Dutch Republics, has not yet reached its con clusion; but my armies have driven back the in vaders beyond the ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1182 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

ATHLETES WHO HAVE GONE TO THE WAR

... Athletes who have gone to the War. South Africa has a ravenous maw that demands many Victims Lord Rosebery in the House of Lords, Feb. 15. If the War Office wanted an excuse for declin ing the proposal of a well-known amateur to raise a corps of Footballers ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1501 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

War Notes from the Magazines: ANNEXATION AND AFTER

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1525 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... has been promoted to the rank of Major on his appointment for service in South Africa, is a son of the actor. Captain Macready was in the Egyptian War of 1882, and has the war-medal and Tel-el-Kebir clasp and the Khedive's star. During the Nile Expedition ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5084 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... DUBLIN, PRIOR TO THEIR DEPARTURE FOR SOUTH AFRICA. FROM A PIIOTOORAFII BY CHANCELLOR, DUBLIN. valentines by no means complimentary to the Czar of All the Russias. To-day 1 do not imagine we shall find the war a vehicle for the valentine, yet, perchance ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8114 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

... THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. He who fights and runs away --the proverb has rarely had a greater significance than now when the Transvaal has been annexed, and yet some of its subjects are still in the field against us by Mr. Botha's orders ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1851 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

... THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. Lord Roberts is on the move again. He has been slow to begin at every turn, but when once started he has always made rapid progress. The turn of events during the next few days will be watched with keen interest ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1365 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

IN SOUTH AFRICA AT ... THE CLOSE OF THE WAR

... IN SOUTH AFRICA AT T MIE CLOSE OP THE WAR. GUARDING THE LINE. The Engineers busily throwing up sangars in anticipation of an attack near Greylingstad. Fort. THE SUMMIT OF SPION KOP. View taken from the summit of Thaba Inyama, the position occupied by ...

THE GUERILLA WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

... THE GUERILLA WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. GUARDING THE STANDARD BANK AT ELANDSFONTEIN NURSES TAKING AN AIRING IN A RICKSHA AT DURBAN THE CATERER OF MAFEKING This is a picture of Mr. Weil who has just returned to England GENERAL OLIVIER AND HIS SON AT CEYLON They ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 128 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

IN SOUTH AFRICA AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR

... IN SOUTH AFRICA AT TIIE CLOSE OF THE WAR. SIR HENRY IRVING will start on a provincial tour at Manchester on October 22nd. He will visit Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds, and Brighton, and will once more appear at the Lyceum Theatre ...