... THE COST OF WAR. From tl)9 days when Achillea fasted three days and nights over the body of latrocla , slain in the ten years’ siege before the stoat walls of Troy, have learned war’s sorrows. The Duke Wellington wept like a child when he surveyed the ...

... that the neces conveying quantities of fodder over lo tances will be done away with entirely. | the present war the road engines sent out to Africa from Aldershot have done splendid s and it is quite possible, of course, that a mot be devised capable of ...

... on Pietersburg. The “ undesirables” who have been e1 from Pietersburg are arriving here. All that the Boers are tired of the war, but th: gn tha f.1ld ho thaie i. —e es ment The gaole bave been filled for months | pe recalcitrant burghers who have desertec ...

... THE DERRY JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1901. THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. FURTHER BOER ACTIVITY. RUMOURED CAPTURE OF FRENCH, London, Monday.—Tho Brussels correspondent the Daily News wires People connected with the Transvaal Legation bore laugh the ...

... 2 BI i SOUTH AFRICA. BRITISH ADVANCE—BOERS BLOW UP LONG The War Office on Thursday morning the following from Lord Kitchener :— Pretoria, Arnit 17, 925 pm — On G Kitchener's advance from Lydeuburg the blew up Long Tom. Pieces found. prisoners. Another ...

... amount of the cost of the war that could be fairly paid by the Transvaal. That, they ware told, could notibe ascertained until two or three years after the close of the war, and they must remember that the prolongation of the war had brought that country ...

... the whole cost the war out of loan —(cheers) —without charging reasonable amount to the taxpayers of the day. He was afraid it was not only war deficit, but that the real difficulty was not so much the cost of the war in Booth Africa and China as it was ...

... GLOOMY RKPORT FROM MILNKR, LOYALISTS SICK TO DEATH OF THE WAR.” London, Wednesday.—A Bine Book was issued this evening containing ‘‘further correspondence relating to affairs in South Africa. Its most interesting feature is a long despatch from Sir A ...

... all who | that the money spent in the war has beer means spent in vain. It has bought f for the Outlander and the downfall of Krug It has opened South Africa for all ti British industry. More than this, it hi for a war which revealed England's dan state ...

... independent native ministers who owe allegiance to any Charch, and preach the doctrine that the native is the proper owner of Africa, and should throw off European control and claim his own. As yet these preachers have not been interfered with, as the Native ...

... which m ii.d from Southampton on Saturday evening lor South Africa, is taking out further draft Yeomanry 140 strong, including 30 officers and number of telegraphists. London, Sunday.-The War Office announces that the transport Britannic, with the Imperial ...

... £150,061,000, but since then there had been a sup- plementary estimate of £30,704,000 for the army in respect of the wars in South Africa and China, and £578,000 for Consolidated Fund servi interest. on the new debt. agit | 8 g Excise he expected £33,100 ...