1 DECEMBER 1900, page 18

According To Telegrams Received On Friday, Lord Roberts...

Johannesburg for Durban, and Lord Kitchener has now taken over the chief command of the forces in South Africa. The despatches of the week chronicle a number of minor successes......

A Rift Has Manifested Itself In The Chinese Lute. The

Americans have forwarded to Europe a despatch which has nor been published, but is deem-IN-el as a protest against ranking demands on China which China cannot grant, the special......

One Cause Of Danger To The Peace Of Europe Seems

to be disappearing. It is declared, we are happy to see, that the Czar is out of danger from typhoid, though it may be many weeks before he recovers his ordinary strength. We......

It Is Quite Certain That There Will Be A Fierce

debate in the winter Session on the policy of burning Boer homesteads, and it is most important that such a debate should not degenerate into a party quarrel, or a mere slinging......

From Other Quarters Of The Theatre Of War Come Reports

of numerous skirmishes and large captures of stock. General Clements has dispersed Delarey's commando near Rietfontein; an attack on Brakpan was beaten off by a handful of......

M. D'estournelles, A Retired Diplomatist, Made On Monday...

speech in the Chamber of Deputies. He depre- cated the extension of the Colonial Empire of France. France had enough territory, and her steps forward in the Soudan, on the......

Good News Rarely Comes From Africa. This Week The Newest

incident is that the Somalis in Julealand, the most northerly of the four provinces of the East Africa Protec_ terate, have risen against the British, have killed the Sub-Com-......