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TRANSVAAL WAR: ON ACTIVE SERVICE.--PART XXVII

... figured for large amounts in the subscription lists that for one branch or the other of War Funds have been published from time to time since the War in South Africa broke out. Mr. Murray Griffith, besides being an owner of racehorses, is a very keen all-round ...

SPORT AS A PREPARATION FOR WAR

... to the South African war did it become the mort important and universal of soldiers' games. In fact, it only became prominent a few years before the War Office wrote with regard to South Africa, Infantry preferred. and the war showed how greatly Sword ...

TRANSVAAL WAR: ON ACTIVE SERVICE.--PART III

... distinguished regiment had since it was first embodied. At one time it was known as the Loyal Americans and in the Peninsular War a g ea majority of the officers and men were of German origin. Again it was the Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps and at the present ...

HOME FROM THE WAR--THE RETURN OF LORD ROBERTS

... sometimes things come right for those who know how to wait, and the hero of C'andahar has been able to prove his worth in South Africa under conditions possibly as adverse as any soldier might hope to con quer. His return, which, as events have gone, may appear ...

The First Post-War Golf Year

... The First Post-War Golf Year I THINK that Bernard Darwin's Golf Between Two Wars is a beautifully written book full of information and stories told in his inimitable style. To put over a golf book, worth anything, facts and figures are always essential ...

Maintaining the Health of Stock in South Africa: Director of Veterinary Services

... Health of Stock in South Africa By Dr. P. J. du Toit Director of Veterinary Services IN all civilised countries to-day, the maintenance of the health of farm animals is regarded as a major function of the State. South Africa, which is pre eminently a ...

THE SECOND NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT--SCENES PRIOR TO DEPARTURE FOR SOUTH AFRICA

... DEPARTURE FOR SOUTH AFRICA. NEW ZEALAND, with its comparative ly small population of varied people, has aided amazingly in kindling the white flame of patriotism sent up by the Colo nies to aid the Mother Country in her strug gle in South Africa. Its first ...

The Great War Time Speed-up on the Roads

... made in the Hillman Minx, all the direct result of war time experience, yet the 1945 Minx will not look very different from the last private Minx of 1940. So it will be with the cars from other firms war ex periences will mean that the public can look forward ...

TRANSVÃL WAR: ON ACTIVE SERVICE, -- PART II

... century, they have always borne a high character, and in the Peninsula as in the Crimea won their laureb- i bore the brunt of the war in New Zealand. The depot of the regiment is at Newcastle, and the men are mostly recruited from the North, and are as line ...