... Chief’s favour, although, in the first instance, he was chosen for South Africa by the War Office authorities and not by Lord Roberts. Some doubts arose at the beginning of the war as to lan Hamilton’s military qualities ; the fear was expressed tha the ...

... V THE South African War marks an Imperial epoch. If thegi'eat struggle which ended at Waterloo enabled to build up the British Empire, the war just over gave it the impulse towards consolidation ; that is to say, the unity for which statesmen had been ...

... a few signs of vestlessness during the last few days at the spectacle of a war which still drags no nearer a conclusion. Those who called for “a display of force™ before the war began, have still no other remedy. But instead of the dispatch of a few thousand ...

... characters to South Africa as war correspondent and black-and-white artist ; while we trust that a second edition of the tale may be able to wind up with a postscript to tell how his hitherto perverse sweetheart has welcomed the war correspondent home ...

... he writes to you 'tin due. For without the sinews of war neither hunting nor war can be carried on, and we all must know what a benefit hunting has bees to the war in South Africa, though the war has not been a benefit to the hunting. It ...

... voice of the Stars. useful the Horoscope of the King of Italy. anti Instructive Articles. N.B.—Zsdkiel foretold the War in South Africa, the War in Chime. the General Election, and change in the Cabinet, the Amessination of the late King of Italy, the of the ...

... the Victoria Cross for work in China, but no fewer than twenty-two Crosses have been bestowed for services in South Africa. The Soudan war of 1898 was responsible for four, and the bestowal of a similar number was the outcome of the hard-fought Tirah campaign ...

... THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. The War Office to-day issued the following from Lord Roberts : Johannesburg, Nov. 8, 11 10 *.m. Charles Knox states that be takes no credit for the very successful engagement on the 6th, which was due, in the that instance, to ...

... banquet of the Croy- don Chamber of Comunerce last evening, Mr. Ititchie, , ?? said that whvat was now going on in South Africa wase not war. but murderous hrigaada^ge on the 'part of a section of the Boers. We all hoped and praved that the steps about to bo ...

... the Boer. When we think of the ten thousand brave fellows, from Prince to private, who have died for England in South Africa since the war began, bringing mourning, not unmingled with pride, into so many homes, humble or palatial, we are reminded forcibly ...

... the Order djoes not do more harns than good in modern warfnre. Eari-ho, however, seen something of affairs inI South Africa ?? the war. I should like to eay how eagerly I re:ad Mr. Unales's vivid pen-pictures. To my mind, for trutltfulness and literary ...

... South Africa, and had resolved that the Briti.h flag should float from the Cape to the Zambezi. and should way there. (Cheers.) It Aappeued that he SIRS In South Africa when war broke out, and he had no hesitation in saying the tattle of that war was tha ...