... LETTERS FROM WAR CORRESPON- :DENTS.I SITUATION IN NATAL. [From the Dcily News Special Corrmvspont. 1 P rZTar1LkiT7BVoa, December 9.-Elaborate pro- parations are being made in the neighbourbood of Dundee and Newcastle to enable the burghers to expedite ...

... never wasted by them, and their control over the firing line was astonishingly good HOW AMAERRICA REGARDS T=E WAR, The Times New York correspondent, writing on the views of Americans with regard to the war, ?? what saved the situation was, first of all ...

... of a cheek : is that the public becomes sceptical even when good . r news is to hand. How sceptical the general h h body here are growing on this point was curiously S, t illustrated to-day by the youngest dramatist of 9 my immediate acquaintance-one who ...

... -eho shared the terrible privations of the siege of Paris, few of us have ever spend such a Christmas before, and few will ever care to spend such a Christmas agaim. The scarcity of turkeys and plum-pudding at this time of traditional plenty need only ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDENCE 10)Do0, Sunday Night. TsEs state of saddening anxie'y in which London has lived throughout to-day, because of the earlier telegrams of the morning relating to the Boer attack in force upon Ladysmith, was deepened i to-night when ...

... ton areas, of which London, with a population of eight millions, was one, and Wales another. In his presidential address at the Miners' Con- | I ference, at Cardiff. yest erday Mr. PICXARD, .P., I said the present meeting marked a new era in the 2 history ...

... I LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. LONDON, Friday Night. ItmsiGiHo leaves us with no more information concering the disturbing disappointment at Spion Kop than that which th~illed London before noon. There was no mistaking throughout the day the depth of the fhook ...

... which we think it necessary to euccess. We must go furtber than this, and ie admit it. Thls is a war under new conditions, in a new country, and with new arms, and with a people whose tenacity and courage are as admirable as those of our own soldiers. (ERear ...

... correspondents died during the siege: Mr. G. W. Steevens, of the London Daily Mail; Mr. Mitchell, a sub-editor of the Johannesburg Star, who was here assisting Mrs Maxwell, of the London Standard; and Lieutenant Stabb, of the Times of India. While it cannot ...

... such e centres as London, Manchester, and LiverpooL The Great Western also ran to Wales--Llangollen- to Tintern, Chepstow, and to Lon~don; and the M Midland to Ilfracombe, Exeter, Dawlish, Torquay, sPlymouth, and Penyance, and to London, Liverpool, and ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDENCR LoNDoN, Sunday Night. 1 Suwn-AYhas, happily, come as literally a day of rest f after .tbe violent excitements of the past forty- eight hours. There were flags and crowds to-day in the usually empty City streets but no comparison ...

... yestercay. The London Mforniaq Herald describes the news as amazing,, and, while sincerely hoping that it is true, says that it is undoubtediy the only sensible thing the Boers could possibly do now. Mr Charles Williams, writing in the London Morning Leader ...