... College, Isle of Man. He was attached to the sth Batt, Royal Inniskilling Fu s ili ers from 1890 to 1894. He served in South Africa War (1899-1901 ) , during which he was dangerously wounded during the Siege of Ladysmith. He was awarded the V.C. for bravery ...

... Torch Lights Flame Of War In French North Africa INSTALMENT 31 THE President's prejudices against General de Gaulle, the contacts he possessed through Admiral Leahy with Vichy. and our memories of the leakage about Dakar two years before led to a decision ...

... SOUTH AFRICA South Africa. A hundred years ago angry Boers heaped their tails and great European-built Dominionsseed-bags on to ox-waggons and more people are leaving South moved with their families away to Africa than are entering it from the North frbm ...

... alike demonstrated by the dispute between the United Nations and the Union of South Africa. The dispute concerns the territory that was once known as German South-West Africa. It is an area of 318,000 square miles, lying on the south-west coast of the continent; ...

... Bar To War? IF the scheme satisfies France on the score of security—and M. Schuman has asserted that under it war between France and Germany becomes impossible—one of the greatest barriers to a limited rearming of Germany is removed, though some time ...

... United States-British expedition to North Africa. A tentative time-table had been worked out for putting 90.000 United States and 90,000 British troops. together with a considerable air force, into North Africa. TT was settled to send three or four divisions ...

... therefore. to try hard to win over French North Africa. and now is the moment to use every inducement and form of pressure at our disposal upon the Government of Vichy and the French authorities in North Africa. . . Apart from anything which Gen. Auchinleck ...

... NATION'S STAND IN EVENT OF WAR James J. Moloney. 28 Newtown, victories—the occupation of Paris, Waterford, writes: Neither I nor any Madrid, or. say, Rome? of the correspondents who do not Russia stands, as the author of war against God, xtreme peaks of ...

... NATION'S STAND IF WAR COMES Sir—Your report, under the above caption, of Mr. McGilligan's address in the Senate, throws open for public comment a subject hitherto hidden under a weight of irrelevancies. The Minister for Finance speaks plainly: the decision ...

... across the Channel; AFRICA the British proposed a landing in North Africa and opposed the U.S. plan. Ultimately the view of Churchill and his advisers prevailed and the decision was taken for the great military adventure in North Africa. It was to be called ...

... FINAL INSTALMENT OF FOURTH WAR VOLUME I N this the final instalment of the Fourth Volume of his Memoirs, Mr. Churchill describes how a thick-set man, smoking a cigar, brought death to the passengers, including Leslie Howard, the film star, of a civil ...

... North Africa and the Middle East North Africa and the rulers and politicians, their oflicera TN N auddle East , f rom m om — and intellectuals, will settle for thing short of the expulsion of to the Persian Gulf, the three Prance from North Africa, Britain ...