... Be that as it might we had entered on these wars [Afghanistan and South Africa) oa false pretexts which wore only to conceal our real project of aggression. This is superb fro a Me Chamberlain, Go to war on “pretext,” to ‘conceal our real project of ...

... in for 1,14 , 41.15ie talef4 pro. ceed to South Africa on the 19th January. As this Battalion has not yet seen service during the present war, the men are well pievisad at the prospect, on the whole despite the 'attitude of the returned Imperial Yeomen ...

... | THE COST OF WAR From the day when Achilles fasted three days and nighes over the body of Patroclus, slain in the ton yeaes' siege before the stout walls of Troy, have we learned of war's BOUTOWS, The Duke of Wellington wept like a child when he surveyed ...

... THE WAR. Two seri~ux disasters have befallen the british Arms in South Africa recently. Oun the gth inst the Boers, under De Wet, captured a convoy of 71 loaded wagons and tock several prisoners. Three British officers and 17 wmen were killed, and one ...

... , The Rod of the War. It IN now the let f July, and the war ix No far • from being that Lori Roberta declared he cannot allow &atingle man ,a) be withdrawn from Africa for service in China. We have landed sokliera iii South Africa and have provided ...

... NEWSPAPERS AND THE WAR. Such people m still think war must he profitable oocurrenoe for owner's of newspapers ought to h , tee their minds disabused by the timely article on English War Corronmudents in South Africa, in Harper's. C A once . . . . . ...

... CRITICISM OF THE WAR. The New York correspondent of the Duly Meil” says :—The news of General Buller's reverse at the Tugela has beea received here with the deepes. amazement and widespread regret. The general opinion is that the war is certain to be ...

... BOER WAR. A Daily News correspondent says: —As at present advined, it in the intention of the Government to ask the HOWIt of Commons in the Doming December session to vote an additional twelve millions for the expenses of the war in South Africa and ...

... THE COST OF WAR. OUR LOSSES TO DATE. NEARLY 8,000 (I:FFI'CERS AND MEN OST. From Mr W. F. Regan. Since the publication of the casualty list on the 12th inst., the approximate total losses to the British Field Force in South Africa has beea very seriously ...

... THE WAR. ENGLAND’'S LOSSES. AN APPALLING TOTAL. On Saturday night last the War Office issued a statement of casualties to the British South African Field Force for the month of September, and also since the commencement of the war, as follows : — 3 DURING ...

... Johannes urg, a body of soldiers, sorely needed for th - war, should be recorded in letters of £ 1d for all time. The debaters formed Govern- sent and Cppesition, The Government proposes that the Boer War is unjust. First, for natiomal independence, liberty ...

... ANY NEWS FROM THE WAR? OF COURSE THERE IS. - HERE IT IS. War Oftice, Monday, 10 o'clock, p.m. -No news from the seat of war. ¥Full information will be supplied to callers at 10 o’clock to-mor row. Next moring callers on the War Oflice are supplied with ...