... SOUTH AFRICA. A QUIET WEEK. WAITING FOR MEN AND GUNS. There is a lull in the South African War. The Boer force has been increased against Lord Methuen at Modder River ; Sir Redvers Buller is understood t be clearing the enemy from the south mide of the ...

... THE WAR. BATTLE OF MODDER RIVER. BOER MORALE SHAKEN. 30,000 BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS. KIMBERLEY PRACTICALLY SAFE The essential news from the hehting centres—Kimberley, Mafeking, Ladyemith and Colenso—since wo last wrote is weao s but what there is points ...

... TEA T ‘r'- Jmpressions-of a Lady from South Africa ‘We should-consider the Boers a very dirty people; but this is more especially true of the men. As boys they are ouly supposed to wash themselves once a week; they sleep in their clothes, which are only ...

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... Yeomaary 1 the ‘w\h-ry way, not to rasse a squadron for war. Earl Brownlow, therefore, thougnt it would aet be wise to do anytaing in & hurry. He weom mended wasrting entil they had received the seheme the War Otfice was said to have in mw-{hnn‘ for the anisation ...

... THE WAR STORS®' SCANDAL A SCATHING The long-looked-for report of Sir. Willian Butler's Committee upon the salee and re funds to Contractors in South Africa was is sued on Wednesday, snd proves to be a much more scathing document than anyone had conceived ...

... THE SETTLEMENT AFTER THE WAR. Important Statement. Federation and Autonomy. (PER CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY) (Natal), -by, Hl} am. The Boers are still in their positions ot Laing’s Nek, and the military position is practically unchanged since my last despatch ...

... Appleton hvm! sat down, the jury :-(opv«l the proceedings by stating there was no case, What is going on at the seat of war in South Africa is described by one writer as an “anaconds movement.” The British Army, like a huge snake, has its head in Pretoria ...

... THE WAR. SUMMARY OF THE WEEK'S FIGHTING. ‘ In the Orange Free State there has been corsiderable activity with a view to capturing Steyn and Christian de Wet, who, it is supposed by many, are practically the only obstacle to the conclusion of the war, the ...

... Higginson served with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces as a private in France during the Great War and was twice mentioned in dispatches. s After the war he served the War Graves Commission between 1918 and 1956, ending his days at the commission as secretary ...

... incoln WAR LETTERS FROM LINCOLNSHIRE SOLDIERS. | We are constantly receiving interesting letters from Lincolnshire men who are serving with the troops in South Africa. We give a few extracts from some of them. ; LINCOLN POuIgoBIAN AT MODDER, WHO WAS A ...

... the other hand, it 1 not be forgotten that the productien of g¢ in South Africa was agmin steadil ing, and in 1903 amounted to abe cont. of the waximum productit time before the war. Though the wh this produetion did not find its way here, it would relieve ...