... (honorary Queen's India cadet), T. B. Traill. G. D. S. Menu rier (Queen's India cadet), J. H. Wilson (Queen's India cauci), P. Ashfield (Queen’s India cadet), V. V. V. Sandiford, D. M. Patrickson. (». Pearso (Queen's India cadet), V. Coates ...

... ballot workable, and was meant to meet emergencies. Earl Cowper considered that the passing of any measure for compulsory military service would be a slur upon th e valour of our Volunteers. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, asked the House ...

... remember any period in the course of my long military career when we had so much to think of or so much difficulties to contend with as now from a military point of view. But such is my belief in the military soirit of this country, as it is evinced by ...

... of the House of Commons The estimates for the public service of the year will be laid before you. The provision for military expenditure must be largely increased on account of the charge for military cperations in Scuth Africa. The experience of a great ...

... latrst information. 466 army medical officers and 4 0 civilian surgeons, 566 femnale nurses, and 5,668 male nurses and orderlies. These did not inchade dowtors and nurses engaged in South. Africa. The supply of beds was. on the 19th inst., 5,0L1 in Natal ...

... MILITARY APPOINTMENTS. (From last ?? ' London Gazette.3 CAVAL rY. usdfe 1s-Letrt, L. G. MUtatord. Lord Brooke. from 7th l -r be d-Lientenant, in succismon to Lieait. F. H. W. Car ltl, proL'etrFl. 2ni Life Guards.-Lijut. F. H. Ripley. from 3rd Hoyal ...

... War to Parliament for the military efficiency or preparedness for war of; our military forces. The Commander-in-Chief is the } chief military adviser of the Secretary of State. and hasf the general supervision of all the military departments of the War Office ...

... acquire land for them, and the supeicession of Militia officers by officers of the Imperial Yeomanry and Imperial Volunteers. Lord Balfour of Burleigh introduced a Bill amending the Scotch Inebriates Act, and it was read a first time. Tuesday. Lord Wemyss ...

... forward and volun- teered to serve the Queen in South Africa, there was less need than ever of resorting to oompulsion in order to fill up our oanles (Cheers.) To pass such a measure as this for compulsory military service would, in his opinion, be a slur upon ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS Friday. The Secretary for War explained vrhat map 3 wore supplied to the officers for the present campaign. Monday. The Earl of Dunraven movrd a refo'ution designed to draw from the Secretary for War a statement aa ...

... forced to do foreign service. It was an unfair and a cowardly thing to make men embark upon one kind of service -when they had only engaged to do another. The War Office dared not ask Militia and Volunteers to engage for foreign service, because they knew ...

... enter into a special agreement for service at out- lying ports, led to considerable diseussion, but upon a promise by 3Lr. Wynd6ha that he would undertake to introduce weeds limiting the places to which rch special services should apply, thie a2inendnuent ...