... THE LATEST STAGES OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. The situation in South Africa is very puzzling. While the Boer cohorts have been march- ing south there has arisen among their comrades in Orange Colony and the Transvaal a move ment to wards Peace-- not at ...

... 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 ...

... sometimes things come right for those who know how to wait, and the hero of C'andahar has been able to prove his worth in South Africa under conditions possibly as adverse as any soldier might hope to con quer. His return, which, as events have gone, may appear ...

... THE RETURN OF LORD ROBERTS His Future Task at the War Office. Lord Roberts has at last come home to preside at the War Office as Commander- in Chief. If there was much for him to do in South Africa there is much more in Pall Mall, where layer upon layer ...

... action -of the Committee of National Defence in appointing Lord lloberts to the supreme command of the British forces in South Africa was hailed with joyful acclamation. It was confidently anticipated that, under his direction, our splendid troojis would prove ...

... made to exchange Cyprus for German East Africa, much as Heligoland was exchanged for Zanzibar. The suggestion has much to recommend it. German African colonies are not prosperous on the whole, and German East Africa is very awkwardly placed for us as it ...

... in Aix roads, 1809, and fought in the American War. He lived at Belmont (Water ford) and died in 1848. His father, Sir Abraham Roberts, went out to India in 1804 and was a brigadier- general in the first war in Afghanistan (where his son was yet to distinguish ...

... the Colonel have a chance of seeing India he then took part in one of the small Frontier Wars. The following year, however, saw him in Africa, when he declared war (in Uganda) without waiting for orders from home. The Exhibition at Sydenham this year, ...

... the Matabele Campaign, receiving rapid promotion. After the war, he returned to this country, and resided for a time at Dundee, Thence he proceeded to Klondyke, but returned to South Africa early last year. A short time ago, Colonel Laing visited Cape ...

... connected with the 9 th Lancers since 1897. He has been almost incessantly in the field since the commencement of the War in South Africa, and he passed unscathed through the actions at Belmont, Graspan, Modder River, and Magers- fontein. The wounded officer ...

... 77 K f) C G'e 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards, ordered to J Sm embark on. the 8th for the Seat of War, have been specially favoured by Fortune in the matter of war-service. While some regiments boasting quite as long an existence such as the Queen's Bays throughout ...