29 AUGUST 1896, page 2

We Sometimes Talk As If Modern War, With Its Elaborate

aids for the wounded, were growing as mild and humane as cricket-match. That is a delusion, as General Weyler is showing us in Cuba. When once the shooting has begun you can......

There Has Been Much Correspondence During The Last...

to the language used by Sir Jacobus de Wet in the exhortations which he addressed to the Johannesburgere when persuading them to surrender unconditionally to the authorities of......

The Times Publishes In Its Issue Of Tuesday A Terrible

account of the condition of Formosa since the Japanese occupation, contributed by a correspondent, who quotes from private letters. Over forty thousand of the native population......

From The Best Information We Can Gather Of The Course

of the canvass for the Presidential election in the United States, we should expect Mr. McKinley to be elected by a con- siderable majority in the Electoral College, though of......

The Emperor And Empress Of Russia Arrived In Vienna On

Thursday morning, and were of course well received by the crowd. During the drive from the station to the Hof Burg, the two Emperors occupied one carriage and the two Empresses......

Mr. Ben Tillett Who, On Wednesday Week, Crossed To- Antwerp

to advise the dockers of that port how to carry on their struggle for better conditions of labour, was on Friday week arrested by the police, and after some hours of detention......

Li Hang Chang Finished His Visit On Saturday, And On

that day departed for the United States, vici Southampton. On board the steamer he conveyed, through his interpreter, a message of thanks to the British people. A deep......

The News From Rhodesia Continues Good. On Saturday Last Mr.

Rhodes rode out to meet the rebel indunas, and, after a palaver with them, is stated to have obtained their sub- mission. Up till now, however, the terms of peace have been kept......