... were also unable to guard themselves. The tactics uuder which these boats would be used wonld seem to ba that they would be covered by a sham attack by torpsdo-boats, that the hostile ships would fully expose their position while firing to repel this unreal ...

... Wednesday for Coleaberg, after burning several farms. It was at the last one, whilst we were busy setting fire, and niggers driving the cattle, that we got fired on, but no one was hit. I waa on the job. The bullets failed to reach ua within about twenty yarda ...

... train at Mold Ly the gu;.rd, who also, when tho train atopped at Llanfynydd, naw the defendant get out ou ihe wrong side. The guard communicated with the Btationmaster, and both followed th. defendant, who ran 200 yards along the line, bu_ was brought back ...

... Irish Guards haa at last been approved. To be uniform with the other regiments of the brigade, the tunic of the Irish Guards will be of scarlet, and the facings blue, denoting that the regiment ia a Royal one. The Iriah will be the fonrth Guards' regiment ...

... The enemy attacked in superior numbers, at dawn, and seizing the hills which commanded the Nek, brought a heavy converging fire to bear upon the small garrison. Nitrai'a Nek is about eighteen miles from here, near where tho road crosses the Crocodile ...

... people before it, the trumpets rang high and clear again, and the bright breastplates of the trumpeters gleamed like dancing fire before the lofty standard that swayed with the slow pace of its bearer's horse. Brighter and nearer came the colours, the blazing ...

... United States navy, a Whitehead, fitted with a war head and charged with ninety pounds of gun cotton, waa recently fired for a teat. The firing was off the south end of Prudence Island, ia Narragansett Bay, the target being a rock on the shore, and the range ...

... not bad my clothe conrae for washing purpose: • t in bid, you can imagine a little c On November the 9th the Boers commenced firing iuto town with their nine-ponncler Cordite Runs, the first shell falling close to onr redoubt, where U9 Katn- fnsdam men, ...

... tlmt the lada risa very early in the morning, and go to bed by about eight in the evening. Every preparation is made to guard against fire, ami the boys are trained in the use of the hydrants which are to be found in every room. I have been asked io make ...

... time the story has been told to a third party. Fire away. Sharpe. You see it was this way, Mr. Robe. said Sharpe, settling down as to ;i familiar ta.k : there was an officer of the Guards — Of the Guard V chuckled Mr. Dallas. Who bore one of the ...

... UOUgh, namely, P.C. 'a R. Evans and 11. H. Evans. P.C. Rawlinson is a corporal in No. 8 Company of the 3rd Battalion Grenanier Guards, included in th. Ist Division of the British Field Force now in South Africa. Iv his letter to his friend, P.C. Evans, dated ...

... lasted till four p.m. I never heard auch a noise, the fire from our big guns and the rifle fire were enough to frighten one, but we advanced like oue mau. Our Company waa s*-prj,rt to » Company, the firing line consisting of A, B, and C Companies. The bulle-s ...