Campaign Pictures of the War in
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Title: Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters
from the Front
Author: A. G. Hales
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900)
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CAMPAIGN PICTURES OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA
(1899-1900)
Letters from the Front
by
A. G. HALES
Special Correspondent of the "Daily News"
Cassell and Company, Limited London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
1901
[Illustration]
Dedication.
This book, such as it is, is dedicated to the man whose kindliness of heart
and generous journalistic instincts lifted me from the unknown, and placed
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me where I had a chance to battle with the best men in my profession. He
was the man who found Archibald Forbes, the most brilliant, accurate, and
entertaining of all war correspondents. What he did for that splendid genius
let Forbes' memoirs tell; what he did for me I will tell myself. He gave me
the chance I had looked for for twenty years, and the dearest name in my
memory to-day is the name of
SIR JOHN ROBINSON,
Manager of the Daily News, London.
CONTENTS
PAGE WITH THE AUSTRALIANS. AUSTRALIA ON THE MARCH 1
WITH THE AUSTRALIANS 6 A PRISONER OF WAR 15 "STOPPING
A FEW" 29 AUSTRALIA AT THE WAR 38 AUSTRALIA ON THE
MOVE 48 SLINGERSFONTEIN 60 THE WEST AUSTRAL