... Chamberlain is completely happy in view of theactual ituation. He is the author of the war, and he is not dismayed by its coat. Why should he? It will cost him nothing. The war, he says, was inevitable from the first. He ought to know. With amazing effrontery ...

... BOERS GERMAN ARRANGEMENT WITH TIITE B3RiT1SIJ SOUTH AFRICA CO. London, Friday Night. It was stated at the War Office at 11.30 to- night that nothing would be issued before to- morrow morning. The War Office have supplied the Press As sociation with the ...

... IMPORTANT NEWS AT THE WAR OFFICE London, Tuesday. T'he Press Association ?? after 7 o'clock this evening the following notice was posted at the War Office on the board provided for announcements relating to the war in South Africa:_ -October 17th, 7 p ...

... Priresianit -o of the Cape, whiclt we pullih!l tol-day. Tl a, s |tf~he wvar rs an unjust war and a hinl l war is e the opinion of loyal DutcIhkeln ia Su h- Africa, who, if the vwar is to 6' carriel witt if to a bitter atnd bloody concltu In. will see I ...

... TH:E WAR. The war is still hwgng fire., East and west tihe Boers continue to strengthen their position while the beaten generals wait for reinforcements. At Ohievely Camp Sir Redvers Buller has been joined by Sir Charles Warren, and the division which ...

... THE WAR. I Yesterday the War Office was practically silent. General Gatacre's desnatee and the description of the battle, by the Press ear- respondents are all the light so far vouch-l safed upon the disaster at Stormberg. But it, is already clear that ...

... THE WAR. Lord Methuen is evidently to have his stomach-full of fighting. It is now an- nounced that Thursday's battle at Belmont has been followed by Saturday's battle at Graapans, or Grasspap, as the .maps have it; and this new Brtibh $rctory seems yet ...

... I T:H POWERS AND THE WAR. I - . . .. T; e interest of the public, which, for the past few weeks, has been so completely ab- sorbed in the military operations in Natal and oter parts of South Africa, is gradually con- centrating itself on the European ...

... matum having finally cleared the situation. Though there is no desire for war for wars sake the majority of tlie Progressives and most of the loyal Eection of the population regard war as the only possible meeans of'.settlemnent, and if they complain at all ...

... THE WAR. Lord Methuen's list of casualties is the heaviest recorded so far in the South African I Campaign. His first list reveals a loss of I over eight hundred men, including no fewer| QUhan sixty-eight officers No. fewer thanI seven hundred and three ...

... mean not merely the war that might now be declared, but what would be far worse, a civil war that would continue for generations, and a feel- ing that might rankle for centuries. If Bri- tain could wipe, out the Dutch of South Africa in a vigorous campaign ...

... d to the War Office officials, who authorised the agency to state that, so far as the War Office was aware, the report. was unfounded. t LADYSMLTH CUT OFF OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMiENT London, Thursday Night. It was officially announced at the War Of- fice to-night ...