... for Pre- toria. s it is, the calculations of our Military Council at the War Office have been upset by the feeble estimates of our Intelligence Department in South Africa. When war was declared it was supposed that the Boer fighting force numbered no more ...

... The railway is now open from Cape Town to De Aar, which is not a bad sign in a disaffected area so extensive as South Africa. ...

... of action in South Africa. This war is teaching something more than the gogra,phy of a continent, its physical features, and its inhabitants. New words and phrases are passing into everyday use. The football reports are full of war t&'rns and idioms, ...

... South Africa. Wheu war is going forward men forget all else. Literature, the arts, sciences, local government, lose interest before the stirring tales of war and the prizes, losses, and risks of the campaign. Wherever one goes the dread word War is heard ...

... off the breast. Queen Victoria may be eating her Michaelmas goose whilst Bobs's proclamation is being read in South Africa declaring the war to be at an end. It is a great score to have a public declaration from the Stipendiary Magis- trate of Cardiff that ...

... g the cir- tumsiances, '13 ^TER THE WAR. Cape Town j\fon(jay—g,r Walter Hely llatchinson, (erDOr of jvjn.tfvl, wilt arrive here tn yrto'iifcv witb Sir Alfred Milner on I the sottlemi^f jjoali, Africa iffer tho war. | the foreiffa \ry attaches have arrived ...

... being under the superintendence of a aurgeon of some eminence. Lord and Lady Henry O. Bentinck will leave for South Africa shortly. The War Office and the Red Cross Society have promised their cordial assistance. I Besieged Ladysmith. I WHAT THE BOERS SAY ...

... EXEMPTED FROM BLAME. (Central News Telegram.) The following has been issued from the War Office: From General Officer Commanding, Natal, to Secretary of State for War. Received 4.47 a.m., 31st October. Ladysmith, 50th October, 11.35 p.m.—I have to report ...

... WAR IN SOUTH AfRICA Fighting Near Pretoria. FREE STATERS BREAK THE CORDON. A HOT PURSUIT. The following despatches were issued on Wednesday afternoon From Lord Roberts to the Secretary of State for War. PRETORIA, July 17th, 10.45 p.m. (received July 18th) ...

... WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA I The Pursuit of De Wet KITCHENER ENGAGED. In Touch With Methuen. I From Field Marshal Lord Roberts to the Secretary of State for War. PRETORIA, August lltb, 6,30 p.m. Kitchener is on the Gats Rand Range, south of the Krugersdorp- ...

... WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.. BELMONT VICTORY. I DETAilS OF THE ENGAGEMENT. German Commandant Captured. MORE BOER TREACHERY. Investment of Mafeking. GRAVE SITUATION. (Press Association War SpeciaJ.) Belmont, Friday, 9.55 p.m.—The entire western division moved ...

... WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA NEAR PRETORIA. Enemy Retire when Threatened. (Renter's Telegram ) PRETORIA, Monday. To-day Lord Roberts detached a force to drive the Boers from a range of kopjes north and north- west of the town. The Boers, however, evacuated the ...