... gone from India to join the staff in South Africa, is a County Clare man. Born in 1842, he joined the Royal Engineers in i860. He went through the Jowaki Expedition, 1877-8; the Zulu War, 1879; the Afghan War, 1879-80; the Egyptian Campaign of 1882; the ...

... English journals in connection with the war in South Africa. This word u veld is pronounced by South Africans as felt (meaning the open country), and veldt more than probably has originated with our home newspaper war correspondents. Occasionally, too, one ...

... THE FRENCH IN CENTRAL AFRICA Awtigifig the Murder of Cap t ciin Etrctonn&t. The dastardly massacre of Frenchmen under Captain Bretonnet in 1899 by the notorious African chief, Rabah, at Togbao is avenged. Rabah is no more; and M. Emile Gentil, who undertook ...

... is appro priate, for when the war broke out the four young men were ready, and have now seen what their father, with his thirty-nine years of service, has not had the privilege of undertaking active service in actual war. So far the four young officers ...

... officers of the Ophir are the Nelsons of to-morrow or rather, in the sincere hope that there will be no naval war, let us say the might-be Nelsons. War, though a fine thing for sucking Nelsons, has a terrible effect on the Income Tax of the ordinary British ...

... THE PURSUIT OF THE REDOUBTABLE DE WET. If the war is not at an end there can be no doubt that the Boers have lost very heavily during the last few weeks-- which may account for the rumour, current at the end of last week, that Botha had agreed to surrender ...

... 7.18 Tuesday, 7.20. The War Office, having at last recognised the advisability of forming Cyclist Volunteer Corps all over the country, have taken a step further, and are sending considerable quantities of cycles to South Africa for use in the operations ...

... that have been made during the war. De_ Wet's exaspera tion as recently shown in his sjambok ing and shooting peace making burghers has gone far to destroy the Ot _ high reputation he ac quired in the earlier part of the war, and Mr. Botha seems to have ...

... I. His last war-service was in the Afghan Campaign of twenty years ago, for which he received the thanks of Parliament and of the Indian Government and the Iv.C.B. Lord March, the future Duke of Rich mond, has set sail for South Africa almo.-t exactly ...

... natives there have been encounters in the great Moroccan Sahara sufficiently sanguinary to occupy the attention of a stop-the-war com mittee but news reaches Europe officially by way of Oran in Algeria, and at Oran is an efficient censorship. By the time ...

... ledger for reference. Lord Roberts, looking down on the House of Commons from the peers' gallery when the Secretary for War introduced the war estimates, heard many references to himself. It was Lord Roberts thought this, Lord Roberts said that, all through ...

... country. In ad dition, the St. John Ambulance Brigade has been of exr.entinnnl lipln to us throughout the war in South Africa, it having supplied to the War Office nearly 2,000 trained men since November 21, 1899. To the credit of the Ancient Order of St. John ...