... in South Africa. War was upon every tongue yesterday, though no marked change in the situation can be ezpecte 1 until after the Cabinet meeting. Still t is feared in some quarters that during the past twenty-four hours the probability of war has become ...

... Daily Nation Ornc*, 58 Fleet street, K. 0., Saturday Morning. The Cabinet Council yesterday decided plunge South Africa into cauldron war. That is the one and only interpretation of the decision which, I authoritatively informed, was arrived at. Mr. ...

... THE MILITARY SITUATION, Elsewhere publish an accurate sketch map of the probable scene of hostilities in South Africa, which, should war actually break out, will reproduce from time to time, adding the names the various places which the course of military ...

... WILL LOSE. '* England and South Africa will both have lost. England will have lost in honour, and will have cut that cable of affection and sympathy which alone can permanently bind - South Africa to her. South Africa will left torn and bleeding in every ...

... been received from the War Office to select from the members of the Army Ordnance Corps efficient carpenters, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, saddlers, and collar makers, machinery gunsmiths, and fitters, for service in South Africa. Great eagerness is evinced ...

... THE WAR PREPARATIONS London, Sunday. The Press Assoc'.ation has authority to repeat unequivocally that new orders for the sending of military forces to South Africa has been given as the result of Friday's Cabinet Council. The War Office, however, are ...

... movements. The plain meaning of this pregnant sentence is that a state of war now practically exists between England and the Boer Republic. do not ourselves believe that the War Office will successful in keeping secret the details to the distribution of ...

... in readiness to embark for South Africa. The superintendent of the Army Nursing Staff. Woolwich, today received intimat'on to be ready with several nursing sisters to embark on the 7th and IGth October for South Africa large number of horses arrived at ...

... Lord Wolseley, Sir Red vers Buller, and othew, considered the situation at the War Office in the evening in the light of the decision of the Cabinet to send out to South Africa additional British troops. far as those to be sent from England are concerned ...

... PEACE OR WAR It is yet impossible to say whether the gates of the temple of Janus are to be swung back and the cohorts of England to march forward to carry fire and sword into the Transvaal. Only very sanguine man would, however, commit himself to the ...

... subjection. , army has so often to adapt itsen to Midden changes of conditions ami locality •as our own. Almost every war in South Africa and in India has forced upon us a change in tactics. When the Kaffirs took to the bush in 1877, small military poets ...

... WAR RISKS AT* LLOYD S. SUDDE.N RISE IN PREMIUMS—6O PER CENT DEMANDED. (“Daily Mail” Special)- London, Thursday. At Lloyd’s yesterday the underwriters demanded a premium of 60 guineas per cent against a declaration of war with the Transvaal within six ...