... you to-day, to have presented you with your war medals, and also with the King's colour. I feel sure that you will always defend it and will do your duty as you have done during the past year in South Africa, and will do it on all future occasions. Be ...

... daughter Isabel II. Here the first Carlist War originated. Maria Christina was afterwards expelled from Spain by a political revolution after being the idol of the people, who shed much blood for her in the Carlist wars. Grandparents Isabel II. and King Francis ...

... satisfactory, the whole Empire would rejoice. Mr. Chamberlain, in a speech in 1898, long before the War began, said it would be a long war, a bitter war, a costly war, and that it would engender racial animosities for a prolonged period. He was a true prophet ...

... the War Office, and certainly cyclists have not been remiss in applying abusive epithets to the gentlemen in Pall Mall. Corps of Cycling Volunteers are springing, up all over the country, and naturally the members feel a little sore that the War Office ...

... was very noticeable, had come before her illness was announced. The rumours of European intervention or mediation in South Africa are obviously unfounded. The different rulers whose states might have inter vened must have reviewed the situation before ...

... HUNTING BOERS AND BIG GAME. MR. C. H. PEMBERTON, who has just returned from the Boer War, went out to Africa in July, 1899, for the purpose of collecting natural history specimens, and especially to en deavour to bring home to England the whole skins ...

... limbo of the half-pay list. He was not to languish long in this obscurity, however. The sudden Gathering of the War-Crouds in South Africa, in October 1899, occasioned an immediate demand for the recall of capable men. Pole-Carew was one of the first ...

... the race. The Cambridge men were to go into their light boat on Wednesday. Another Blue has fallen a victim to the war in South Africa. Captain D. H. M'Lean, of the 69th Company of the Imperial Yeomanry, died at Johannesberg on February otli of colitis ...

... Mr. G. D. A. Fleetwood Wilson, C.B., the serviceable Assistant Under-Secretary at the War Office, has been despatched with a small but capable staff to South Africa, and should prove a most useful Financial Adviser to the hard- worked Commander- in-Chief ...

... Hcdley as General Manager, who has been at work since the summer of 1898. Mr. Iledley was born and educated at Cape Town, South Africa, came to England when he was twenty, and was engaged in a business capacity in London for a short time. Having some connection ...

... best City opinion is in favour of some more permanent method of supplying the funds necessary to wind up the South African War. Sir Michael has on several previous occasions shown such a partiality, for stop-gap expedients that it would have been expecting ...

... knows that it was at his instigation Archibald Forbes became a War-Correspondent, and of the fame and fortune the thrillinsr letters of Forties's virile lien durimr the Franco-German War brought the Daily News. Many men who have made a name in the world ...