... gq-. sured. Mr Powell Williams, M P. Financial Secre tary to the War Office2 speaking at a Volunteei dinner in Birminghazg on Saturday night, re- plied to criticisms passed upon the War Qffice antif the military in connection with he con - duct of the ...

... the present war in South Africa is a war of wanton and unprovoked aggression. Undertaken on the instigation of Mr. Chain- ,berlain and the capitalists who are greedily longrng to grab the gold mines. It will be a cysVvt- and expensive war, bringing misery ...

... the line ta De Mr and Belmont. DEAThS IN SOUTH AFRICA The Press Association ?? War Offiee issued the following telegram. received from the. General of lines of communicttionz to .ie Secretary of State for War (received Decemnbms 2nd. 11 p rn):- Cape Town ...

... Pvetoria. -s is. is the calcnlatione of our Miltary Coun- cil at, the War Office have been upset by the feeble estimates of the War Intelligence Depart- ment in South Africa-When war was declared it WW supposed trat the Boor fighting force numbered no ...

... Press have treated the I ailleged rebellion of the Dltch of Cape Colony I i agaist Engiand Eine the outbreak of the j present war have been somewhat amusing inli their variance. One journal boldly dedclres I| that the Afrikander farmers of (ape Colony are ...

... carrying on of the war. England is not so beloved by Conti- inental nations that she can afford to leave the defence of the United Kingdom wholly to militia, volunteers, and the Royal Irish Con- Istabulary. To place 120,000 men in South 'Africa will exhaust ...

... Priresianit -o of the Cape, whiclt we pullih!l tol-day. Tl a, s |tf~he wvar rs an unjust war and a hinl l war is e the opinion of loyal DutcIhkeln ia Su h- Africa, who, if the vwar is to 6' carriel witt if to a bitter atnd bloody concltu In. will see I ...

... TH:E WAR. The war is still hwgng fire., East and west tihe Boers continue to strengthen their position while the beaten generals wait for reinforcements. At Ohievely Camp Sir Redvers Buller has been joined by Sir Charles Warren, and the division which ...

... THE WAR. I Yesterday the War Office was practically silent. General Gatacre's desnatee and the description of the battle, by the Press ear- respondents are all the light so far vouch-l safed upon the disaster at Stormberg. But it, is already clear that ...

... THE WAR. Lord Methuen's list of casualties is the heaviest recorded so far in the South African I Campaign. His first list reveals a loss of I over eight hundred men, including no fewer| QUhan sixty-eight officers No. fewer thanI seven hundred and three ...

... 0o-t~iel.tbi i Africa Company was held at Cannlon stleeg Hotel, London, this afternoon. There .vts a large attendance. T4e Duke of Abercorn pre sided, and, in moving the adoption of the re- port, said to the company the war in South Africa. had moie than ...

... in South Africa in order to guard against surprises. The i'Temps' says: -A little more and it wri'l be civil war-that; in to say a hideous mon ster, the inere appearance of which en the horiton fills the friends of humaanty and South i Africa with dread- ...