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The China Steam Navigation Company's steamer Chingtu arrived yesterday from Manila, and other Eastern ports. The latest fills by the steamer give news of the proceedings in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →APIA, March 7.--For the past three weeks Samoan affairs have been still unsettled, and everyone has been in a state of expectancy. By, the steamer to San Francisco on February 22…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the steamer Australia, which arrived on Saturday, we are in receipt of files of Eastern news to February 22, and amongst other items of interest is the following account of the sanguinary combat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Hon. St. John Brodrick, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, stated in the House of Commons last night that the Government intended to use its best…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It may be remembered that at the St. Patrick's Day Sports in the Champion Tug-of-War a serious hitch occurred owing to infractions of the rules. The trouble…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The championship tug-of-war competition, which was stopped at the St. Patrick's Day sports last Saturday through several breaches of the rules being committed, is to be finished next Saturday afternoon, when, if there…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Woodford, the former American Minister at Madrid, made some interesting disclosures of war secrets in an informal speech at the Army and Navy Club, New York (says…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, March 22.—In view of the recent disaster at Toulon, when one of the Government naval magazines exploded, a series of experiments has been made by the War…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In view of the recent disaster near Toulon, when one of the Government naval magazines exploded, a series of experiments has been made by the War…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--In view of the Toulon disaster, experiments have been conducted by the War Office authorities in Paris to determine the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The French Minister for War, M. de Freycinet, has ordered the defences of Calais to be strengthened by six batteries of the newest guns…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the "Contemporary Review for February, Major-General Sir W. Gatacre, K.C.B., who commanded the British Division in the Soudan, replies to Mr. Bennett's…
Continued on Trove, page 57 →THE horror of the next big war is the waking nightmare of Europe. The vastness of Europe. The vastness of forces engaged, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bunson (amazed): That your uncle! why, man, you told me your uncle had both his legs carried away at Sedan, Jimson: So he did. He carried them away…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Richard Harding Davis, F.R.G.S., may not live for ever in the history, of literature. But what subject he touches is handled with consummate delicacy and grace. In so far as war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A certain Scottish volunteer corps was, during, the recent crisis, ordered to hold itself in readiness to .mobilise at any moment. Consequently, one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the annual Easter mobilisation of troops the military authorities purpose using the services of cyclists as orderlies and dispatch-carriers. The test will no doubt be an interesting one, but in selecting men who are not…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Having in view the great success of the tug-of-war competition brought off under the auspice of the St. Patrick's Day sports committee, and the large amount of interest displayed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the House of Commons on February 16, during the debate on the Address-in-Reply, Mr. SETON-KARR moved, as an…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir,—In commenting upon "Old Soldiers letter of the 5th, I did not take a "flying shot" at the matters mentioned therein. I spoke of absolute facts which have come…
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