Armoured trains worked by the South African Engineer Corps have done
useful service in the operations against the rebels. The truck in the
photograph, it will be seen, is loop-holed.]

This was the recent meeting, not at Cologne, but at Malmö, of the three
Kings of Scandinavia--Denmark, Sweden, and Norway--who lunched, and dined,
and debated together for several days, when it was at last announced to
the world at large (and Germany in particular) that "their deliberations
had not only consolidated the good relations between the three Northern

[Illustration: MEN WHO UNDERGO GREAT HARDSHIPS IN THEIR PURSUIT OF
REBELS: A BIVOUAC OF SOUTH AFRICAN LOYALISTS.

Our correspondent writes: "After a long chase they find themselves very
often forty miles from the convoy, nothing to eat for man or beast, and in
a country destitute of food."]

[Illustration: WHERE "REGIMENTS HAD BEEN RAISED AS IF BY A WIZARD'S
WAND": GENERAL SMUTS SPEAKING AT JOHANNESBURG.

General Smuts, South African Minister of Defence, said recently that there
had been a magnificent response to the call to arms. On the Rand regiments
had been raised as if by a magician's wand.]




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