... large St amount of ammunition through Cape Colony to the Free State, has directed attention to the im-nt mense accumulation of -war material in the two at republics, especially in 'the Transvaal, the Vit- ni lander population being debarred from carryin4 arms ...

... At the War Office there was again a good deal of activity yesterday, and both Lord Lansdowne an. Lord Wolseley were early in attendance there. The department continues to receive applications from officers anxious to proceed to South Africa. Sir William ...

... to naval mobilisation, and the Admiralty and War ] Office are in constant touch with the Colonial Sec- :etary. Lord Lansdowne, and Mr. Goschen are kept informed of all important telegrams from South Africa. A military correspondent adds that i only ordinary ...

... South Africa wvas due to a state of unpreparedness at the War Office, and this other misconception that the War Office has been in any war hampered in their opera- tiens by the policy which the Government have seen fit to adopt. .We at the ...

... to war. It becomes daily more evident that Sir Alfred Milner 'has been mis- led from beginning to end as to the grievances of the Uitlanders in Johannesburg. It would be well' for the people of Great Britain, before entering upon a disastrous war, to ...

... an examination in Led South Africa history and in, the Dutch language. , Mr. Wyadham- informed Mr. Dillon that no :es machine gun carriages were sent to South Africa, ut.I a ciiX any macbiae -anu 4xonud be sent to SotU Africa mark 4 anwinit n Would,,be ...

... SOUTH AFRICA. A Devonport correspondent states that private advices received there show that the 32nd Battery of the Southern Division Garrison Artillery, sta- tioned on Spike Island, Cork Harbour, are ex- pecting orders to proceed to South Africa within ...

... He coninrindled a cavalry brigade under Lord Roberts in the Afghan war: also commanded the cavalry of the Indian contingent under the late Sr He-bert Macpherson in the Egyptian war of 1882. and was for several years at the head of a second class district ...

... frontier campaign, has been appointed to act as deputy-assistant ad- jutant-general at Colchester during the absence m South Africa of Major Sladen, 2nd Battalion East VYorkshire Regiment, at Templemore. The 16th Company Royal Army 3Medical Corps at Cork ...

... are enabled to take part c in the suocour of the sick and wounded I in war times in co-operation with the Army -Medi- II cal Department. The committee will provide in r South Africa two hospital railway trains for the S transport of the sick and -wounded ...

... al law. A retired British officer who knows South Africa well in- i forms me that. the native tribes owe the Boers many a grudge, but whether this were so or A their traditional tactics in time of war involve th@it wholesale plunder of combatants, whoever ...

... pigeonholes of the Colonial Office. M4r. Kruger has asked for war, and war he must have. Two points remain nm- set-tled-First, what will the Free State do in the face of this gratuitous declaration of war bh its neighbour? That quest-ion we cannot answer. The ...