... remarks. Proceeding to refer to the war in South Africa, he remarked that it was difficult at any political meeting to omit & reference to this subject, because they could not get away from it. Nobody now spoke of the war without put-‘ ting an epithet betore ...

... yesterday, gave notice of a motion, inviting the Italian Government to teuder its geod offices with a view to bringinz the South Africa war to a conclusion, Bignor Zanardelli, the Premier, announced that the Government would make a statement upon the subject.—Central ...

... ' This statement seems to me to be utterly and ludicrously untrue, Mr. Perks appears tc have been referring to the South Africa war in general, and to the concentration camps in particular. Possibly on these matters the * Methodist Times may represent ...

... sister, resulted in a verdict of * Suicide while temporarily insane.” Deceased, who was 46 years of age, went out to S. Africa on war service, but was sent home in trouble, it being oficillly stated that she was addicted to wntemperance and taking drugs ...

... He had to make a few observations on public topics, and he found they must be on one topic alone—namely, that of Bouth Africa. The war in which they had been engaged was in some senses a great warnot great, he feared, in any credit or glory it would have ...

... His Royal Highness afterwards presented war medals, including one to a nurse who had been in South Africa.— Reuter. WAR OFFICE BLUNDER. At a luncheon given subsequently to the troops who had come back from the war, Mr. Seddon, the Premier, commented in ...

... THINKS. Lord Onslow, addressing the British Empire League, in Manchester yesterday, said the Boer operations in South Africa were not war, but a hopeless struggie, while their conduct towards our wounded at Vlakfontein was quite outside the pale of civilisation ...

... contacts 402.” COMFORTS FOR THE TROOPS. ~ In the matter of Lord Kitchener's appeal ‘{or comforts for the troops in South Africa, the War Office has issued a list of articles ‘ which are most in demand. These are cardigan waistcoats, woollen drawers and vests ...

... the seomanry remaining in South Africa. A War Office order will make this clear. Yesterday afternocon the Commander-in- Chief, the Secretary of State for War, and several heads of department were in councii ai the War Office. It is understood that the ...

... ons. It appeared that a regular encampment had been established at the instifation of Crewes, who had been in South Africa during the war. It was surrounded, except for a few “bolt holes,” with barbed wire. In an old tree was a larder with the remains of ...

... the old boys of the Clock House Schools, Chelsea, in commemoration of their schoolfellows who have perished in South Africa during the war. | The Duke of Devonshire, President of the Council, bas consented to receive deputations from the Trade Uajon Congress ...

... counter attraction to county cricket, and unhappily, many celebrated players seem likely to again be detained in South Africa by the war. ...