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...Last wide military use of shrapnel against troops was not in the Boer War, 1899-1902, as many Canadian soldiers could testify who came under extensive and persistent shrapnel shelling at Ypres, 1915, 1916, 1917; on the Somme, 1916; at Vimy and in front of Lens, 1916, 1917; before Arras 1917, 1918; before Amiens, 1918; at Valenciennes and Mons...
...Dingell should have known better. Last wide military use of shrapnel against troops was in the Boer war, 1899-1902; World War I's first year taught the unready British that Germany's high-powered explosive shells were more effective...
...first book, Scholar-Gypsies. He went up to London, was admitted to the bar, then, on the strength of his brilliant record at Oxford, was made secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. In South Africa he turned soldier, served for the last year of the Boer War as a trooper in the Rand Mounted Rifles. He stayed there for two more years, learning about colonial administration from Lord Milner and Lord Kitchener...
...play does all it can to cooperate. A piece of monstrous twaddle, so old-fashioned as to be almost refreshing, it concerns three generations of a hot-blooded Boer family who live somewhere on the veldt. The husbands systematically bully the wives, and the wives systematically bump off the husbands. Home life, between whiles, is saved from monotony by Satan (who arrives so punctually each day he could just as well deliver the mail), assorted ghosts, the old lady's coffin (which, pending its final function, she uses as a kind of chaise longue), windstorms, shotguns, sluts from...
...Netherlands to cede to a reconstituted Belgium the southern portions of Zeeland and Limburg provinces, which lie next to Belgium. This was averted not only by the Queen's dramatic tour of these provinces but also by the presence in Versailles of two South African statesmen of Boer origin, Generals Colin Graham Botha and Jan Christiaan Smuts. They remembered that it was Wilhelmina who in 1900 defied the British by sending a Dutch warship to pick up Boer Leader Paul Kruger and bring him to safety in Europe...