A Dinner Given On Wednesday In London By The Officers
of the Ashanti Expedition was remarkable for the interest of the speeches delivered by the chairman, Sir James Willcocks, and the guests of the evening. Perhaps the best was the......
The War News From South Africa Is Nearly All Satisfactory
so far as it goes. General Plumer's rapid northward advance on Pietersburg not only took the Boers by surprise, but entirely upset the preparations for another invasion of Cape......
Mr. Brodrick Drew Attention To The Number Of Wars In
China, in South Africa, in Ashanti, and in Somaliland which we have been fighting all at once, and said "there surely never was an Army which had to fight so much and talked so......
M. 011ivier, The Minister Of Napoleon Ell Who Helped To
make the war with Prussia, and said that he made it with "a light heart," has indulged himself in a furious outburst against Italy, whose ingratitude, he declares, amounts to......
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Heir-presumptive To The...
made a very imprudent speech. He received on Wednesday a deputation from a Catholic School Society, and told them not only that the Empire was Catholic, which is true, and that......
We Do Not Like The Most Recent Rumours From China
at all. They may mean nothing, for the lying and the ignorance on the spot are both superb, but they look as if the Court were preparing to renew the war. We hear of troops in......
Those Who Control The Papacy, Among Whom Cardinal...
for the moment the most prominent, are evi- dently growing furious. The Papal election cannot be far off, and as the aged Pope complains, " several States separated by stretches......
The Fight Over The Indemnities Continues At Pekin. It Is
stated semi-officially that Great Britain and Germany have agreed upon a plan, but even the totals are not settled. According to the Americans, the total is just under sixty-two......
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