... defies them. She has armed hei troops in Africa with the weapons condemned by a Conference of civilised Powers, and withheld' her assent from other Conventions intended to reduce the evils! and horrors of war. Thus a Convention to proclaim the sanctity ...

... SOUTH' AFRICA- The Press Association's Southampt .n correspon- e dent states that the Cape liners German, belonging yto die ttnion Company, and the Carisbtrook Castle, s of the Castle line, left Southampton on Saturday d last for South Africa, and numbered ...

... Waar Office would insue instructions that mark No. 4 shall not be used in South Africa, l and whether immediate steps would 'he taken to i supply the troops in South Africa with other am- munition. ,Mr. Wyndham-The honourable member ap- . pears to be mixing ...

... Carisbrick Castle, of the Castle line, left Southampton on Saturday for ! South Africa, and numbered amongst their pes. sengers the officers detailed for special duty in South Africa, whose names have been already published. At Haslar Hospital on Saturday, ...

... not vield to the military will. A coup d'efot was threatened. The Minister of War ascertained, in the course of his inquiry, that sthe members of the Supreme Council of War, -whose countenance General de Ntgrier claimed to have, or, at any rate, of whose ...

... tenant-colonel in the Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery. He joined the Royal Artillery in 1873, and served in the Afghan War of 1879 and the Egyptian expedition of 1882, being present at Tel-el-Kebir. Major Crake, late of the Rifle Brigade, at Dublin ...

... E . |THE LAWS ANI) ?? OF WAR.| ( UEUT iX'J J'tET~lttPAM) Thle ilaruie, Wednesday. The Drafting ComLittee tf ?? elinite Acls epent a long time te-day iu deciding the forii. if the conventioims on the law8s wil us onsm a of war, and on tne alapiation of ...

... promise-and most cnhappily for the interests of the Transvaal. for the interest of the Uitlanders, for the interests of South Africa at large-those pledges then ex- plicitly given have not been fulfilled, and it is because they have not been fulfilled, it ...

... was peace ters at home, -a strong belief that if this country is compelled to go to war with the Boers there is every probability of a, rncial struggle in South Africa. The Dutch population is vastly in the ascendant, while the British population does ...

... made by the War Office during the past e- few weeks consisted in seeing everything in order i- for mohilisaetion should that prove necessary. Not d a sing-le regiment has been -warned for Service, and a the troops now proceeding to South Africa are in sf ...

... be seen. The idea, however, tha. all Uitlandern should be enfranchised, which seems to have got abroad, not merely in South Africa, but in this country also, is surely very absurd in face of the eidence ad- duced by the Manchester Guardian of ves- terday ...

... AFFAIR?. PARIS, Thursday. JA niou and there membrse tofd the Supemerl Aruour ond ther Bombrse to-da that Gupenerl Council of War, had resigned out of sympathy -with General De 'Negrier, has been officially de- nied, and inquiries a-s to its originators ...