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... WEST AFRICA.' - . i % 50'TOWNS AND b L TROYei,,0 D.f .TOtTYBLE NTEGLYOAT The Elder-Dempster ived here to-day from West Africa and Canary Islaudse a All was reportedquiet ON thcriveriger. The I DI two regiments had been recruited to about 1200 n each, ...
... leave the bones of 50,000 soldiers in South Africa before Pretoria was captured. NO CHANGE IN SITUATIONK. The War Office yesterday morning issued the following telegram from the Corn- mander-in-Chief in South Africa, dated Alonday: - N o change in situation ...
... qui~te ignorant of the many dieadlvantages that the theilr bands. s Anybodv who knows anything of -war, and especially of South African war, must, however, long ago have made up his mind that the most important factor in the present military posi- tion ...
... ITHE WAR PARTY IN RUSSIA DESIGNS ON INDIA. ACUTE PREJSSURE ON 'TlE CZAR. ChI'usm TLEuGRAM.) Vienna, Thursday. The Wiener Tagblatt publishes a oommuni- cation, dawtd from >Moscow, wtich is of sufficient interess to deserve notice. According to the i ...
... nzeat of native affairs in South Africa. H ere, after- t personally riskaing htis life to if pd'ssiblo avert rvar, he 14 conducted to a successful couclusiose, ,in spite of the t most arduous difficulties, the Kaffir 'war of 18T.8, in tl which the troops ...
... connection with the disaster in West Africa it has been decided to send Dir Buentham, of l.M.S. s Colossus, stationed at Holyhead, to join H.M.S. t Raleigh, the flagship cruising on the Cape of Good Z Hope and West Africa station, to supersede the i fleet-zurgeon ...
... previous. nawledge of -sis illness. Mr-Farquharson was a young man -of 27. and had been in, the banking 'business in 'South Africa for ovr- five years. He -served his apprenticesnip as a banker in the North of Sootland Bank at Macduff, under Mr Alexander ...
... clear and distinct, wore mostly in connection with the present war, ant illustrated The Fight for the Flag in South Africa. At each of the exhibitions, on the local volunteers now in South Africa being shown, it was intimated by Dean of Guild Little- john ...
... in I8. I-le served with the naval brigade in the Burmese war and in CLiua, and also in the Russian war of 1864-5, fror which lie receivede the Order of the Legion of Ilnnour and the Sardiniani war iiiedal. The Victoria Cross, with two dates, was also conferred ...
... rifle meetings, where, as a marksman, he never failed to uphold the prestige of the team. On the call for volunteers for South Africa- now nearly a year ago-and even before the official notification of such a call reached us i Peter's name was in my hands ...
... the British Con- sulate ill Egypt during the bombardment of Alexandria and the Egyptian campaign (for ivhich le received the war medal, clasp, and bronze star). Portal becamlie secretary to the British Agency at Caiio from 1885 to 1891, anid his special ...
... the late baronet, was commodore. On the outbreak of the New Zealand war of 1S64-5 he was landed, and took part in the contest between the colonists and the Manrisr The details of that war will be fresh in the minds of most people now living. ' The -gallant ...