events of the last week throughout the world-wide area of
war, let us begin with the Dark Continent, where everything went in our
favour--very brilliantly so. First of all, then, we may now be said to
have completed our conquest of the German Cameroon country by taking
possession of the whole of the railway which runs northward from Bonabari,
and is now in the hands of our troops. A similar fate is reserved, at no
distant date, for German South Africa, against which General Botha--a man
no less brave and dashing as a soldier than sagacious as a statesman--is
preparing to lead a conquering force. Having stamped out the rebellion
within the Union itself--crushing it literally like a beetle--he is now
addressing himself to the task--a harder one, perhaps, but still certain
of achievement--of making an end of the bad neighbourhood of the Germans
in the vast region forming the Hinterland of Luederitz Bay, which is
already in our possession, and rendering it impossible for them in the
future to intrigue from that quarter against the peace and stability of
the Union. The court-martialling and prompt execution at Pretoria of
the rebel leader, Captain Fourie, shows what the Union Government is
minded to do _pour decourager les autres_. The rebellion was promptly
and energetically suppressed--though not without a Union loss of 334,
including more than 100 deaths; while in German South Africa, the
casualties had also risen to a total of some 370. The rebels had more than
170 killed, over 300 wounded, and 5500 prisoners--which was thus a very
creditable bit of work, as brilliant as it was brief, in the rounding-up
of rebels against the unity of the Empire.

[Illustration: SPOKESMAN OF FRENCH DETERMINATION: M. VIVIANI, PREMIER OF
FRANCE.

At the opening of the French Chamber on the 22nd, M. Viviani, the Premier,
expressed the national resolve to continue the war till the cause of the
Allies is won.--[_Photo. Topical._]]

[Illustration: APPOINTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AT THE NORE: ADMIRAL
CALLAGHAN.

Admiral Sir George Callaghan was Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet from
1911 till the war began. He has since been on the War Staff at the
Admiralty.--[_Photo. Heath._]]

Quite of a piece with the doing of this job in South Africa was the
disposal of another overt enemy against our authority at the other
extremity of the Dark Cont