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LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Greek merchants resident at Omdurman claim £20,000 from the Egyptian Government, for damages sustained during the wars with the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Friday.--Mr. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, brought forward the new programme of naval construction in the House of Commons last…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On January 10 it was announced in this column that on the day before the opening of the session a meeting of the Liberal members of the House of Commons would be held at the Reform Club in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lagouban naval magazine, situate a short distance from the port of Toulon (France), was destroyed fcy an explosion at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It is difficult to explain the universal belief that we are on the verge of a terrible war. That the belief is so widespread as to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →An engine-cleaner, named Thomas Haycox, sustained painful injuries to his arm through falling into an engine-cleaning pit containing broken glass at the railway depot here…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This concerns every living being on the Rand (says the "Johannesburg Star"). A Dutch newspaper called "De Rand Post," published in Johannesburg under official auspices, on December 23 says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, January 30.--The investigation into the conduct of the war is at an acute and critical stage. The work of the commission itself, has been less exciting than some of the events…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, March 12, 3.30 p.m.—It is officially reported that the losses among the United States forces during the recent war with Spain amounted to 5731…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For the last four centuries or so, ever since they have occupied the notice of civilised Powers, the history of the Philippine Islands has been of a stirring and sanguinary character. Considering…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The official returns of the United States military authorities in the Philippines state that the total American losses in the war comprised 329 troops killed in action, 125 who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Tuesday.—An inquest on the railway disaster at Rakaia was opened yesterday, and is unconcluded. The body at first supposed to be. that of Miss Jones has been identified as that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The official statement of the American losses by ths recent war show that they comprised 329 men killed in action, 125 deaths from wounds, and 5277…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--An official estimate has been published of losses sustained by the American troops during the late war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Bennett an Oxford don, who witnessed the battle of Omdurman as correspondent for a Louden paper, roundly accuses the Sirdar of having permitted the butchery of unarmed and manifestly…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The following letter appears in the current issue of Mr. Stead's new journal, "War Against War":— Dear Mr. Editor,—The movement which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- The German Emperor has yielded to the verdict of the Reichstag reducing the proposed increases in the army…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Some good stories of "the young British soldier" are told in the November number of the "Windsor Magazine," in an article entitled, "Tommy Atkins on His Autumn Campaign,"…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The London "Evening News" of February 3 has the following: With a fatuous recklessness that only a French Minister can display, M. Lockroy, the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, March 18.—M. Lockroy, the French Minister for Marine, delivered a remarkable speech in introducing the Naval Estimates in the Chamber of Deputies…
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