... d that even the Sahara was once a forest and that this famous desert, too, was man-made those of us who saw North Africa during the war, with the Sahara getting closer and closer to the sea, found it hard to realise that it was once the granary of the ...

... pressing the button, they would now have occupied very high posts at the War Office, at Woolwich, and in the Army. The report seems to exult in the work the Association has done for this war. And, indeed, on that its future existence will turn. We have to hear ...

... IN SOUTH AFRICA AT T MIE CLOSE OP THE WAR. GUARDING THE LINE. The Engineers busily throwing up sangars in anticipation of an attack near Greylingstad. Fort. THE SUMMIT OF SPION KOP. View taken from the summit of Thaba Inyama, the position occupied by ...

... IN SOUTH AFRICA AT TIIE CLOSE OF THE WAR. SIR HENRY IRVING will start on a provincial tour at Manchester on October 22nd. He will visit Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds, and Brighton, and will once more appear at the Lyceum Theatre ...

... THE WAR IN THE DARK CONTINENT. WILD LIFE IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA. THE British forces operat ing in German East Africa, under the command of Lieut.-General Smuts and his predecessors, have not only had to contend with very rusé, wily and utterly unscrupulous ...

... HORNED WAR: A BATTLE BETWEEN TWO OF AN UNGAINLY RACE FROM AFRICA, NO QUARTER GiVEN AT THE MELBOURNE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS: GNUS BETWEEN WHOM NO LOVE WAS LOST. That ungainly animal the Gnu has suffered much by the encroachments of the white man in Africa The ...

... THROUGH AFRICA. MR. C. V. A. PEEL'S new book Through the Length of Africa (London: Old Royalty Book Publishers) is a short one, running to no more than 131 pages, but it gives a fair description of the long traverse of the Continent from south to north ...

... ON ACTIVE SERVICE.-PART XIV, OFFICERS OF THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, Who embark for South Africa on February 10th, under the command of Lord Percy and Lord Cecil. I,icut. Lyttelton. Lieut. Lloyd. Lieut. Riddell. Lieut. Westmacott. Lieut, de Putron. ...

... Pedigree Dogs in East Africa THE EAST AFRICA KENNEL CLUB, which is affiliated to the Kennel Club of Great Britain, was founded in 1919 and organised its first show in 1920 at Nairobi with an entry of about thirty dogs. From the beginning it was considered ...

... P rologue and Epilogue of W ar. War fever and its aftermath Scenes from the film of Cavalcade and W. Somerset Maugham's For Services Rendered at the Globe. Conflicting aspects of war are shown in these two scenes from the contemporary theatre. In the ...

... al at Joharmesburg, who was champion of South Africa four times between 1921 and 1928 and runner-up three times and once before the war, and BOBBY LOCKE, who won everything there is to win in South Africa before he turned professional recently. Brews ...

... President Theodore Roosevelt In Africa I've Had My Life and a Very Good One The Big Bull Rhino When I Thousht Kermit Roosevelt Was Lost Runnins Down a Giraffe By SIR ALFRED PEASE, Bart. [In the last instalment of his East African memoirs Sir Alfred ...