... IFROM OUR WAR CORRESPONDENT.1 MAFEKING, October :L1. AT last we have received definite information. The Ultimatumn has been sent to her Majesty's Government ordering the withdrawal of our troops. And failing that impossible step, we are to be attacked to-morrow. We are prepared to do all that Britons can do; but we are seriously outnumbered for the time, and at..best can only hold the fort. ...

... W\e give, in clef crence to the request of' many rcaders who share the public anxiety, the aipproxmtfate drates of arrival of the vat ions ships taking out the troops, guins, stores, and mules of the Army Corps. The dlates are tiw latest oni Nvinch they may be ex pected at Cape Town rather than- th~orearliest: - FIRST DIVISION (Lord Methuen 1 NNov. 6: I _oPks Iire.--2nd Bo. Roy al West Sutrrey ...

... 'Cbe Zop _of the MtHotninfl' DEATH -Oi LORD l-IoNVARD LE WALDEN. Lord Howard de Walden died in- Londonl last Friday night in his seventieth vear. He was at one time anl attache in the diplomatic service at Brussels, but subsequently antered the army, and was a major in the 4th Dragoon Guards. I-le is succeeded by his-son, the Hon. T. E. Ellis, who is an officer in the 10th Hussarsr-and Ech6 ...

... A recernt issue of the *rVto IYrk .Suo conitains the follomvinm statement of losses oill the battietield, in v iewv of tihe reported statement that the Modder River engagemelit was the b' hloodiest iattle ' of the century. 'At the battleof Aiisterht/, ?? 2, 1805, the French blost 7,000 officers and mell and thie killed and wouindeii of the allies numbered more than 3,000. The Frentch losses ...

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... THE unwritten law which sometimes seems to govern the military history of the British Empire, as it governed that of ancient Rome, has been exemplified again. General GATACRE'S campaign in the north of Cape Colony has opened with a reverse, which, to use his own epithet, is certainly serious. How it happened the telegrams received up to this morning do not show with very much clearness. No ...

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