... between what our Government has demanded and what the Boers have conceded are not sufficient to justify our plunging South Africa into war. ‘“We enter our solemn protest against any appeal to the sword to scttle our differences with the Transvaal, until the ...

... between what our Government has demanded and what the Boers have conceded, are not sufficient to justify our plunging South Africa into war. Amongst the signatures are five M.P.'a sitting on the Ministerial benches, and twenty-seven members of the Opposition ...

... AGAINST WAR. A NATIONAL MEMORIAL. Tho foliowing national memoral againsi the threatened war m South Africa was issued last cvening : — It is no longer possible to deny the imminent danger of war with the Transvaal. Those who are working to bring it about ...

... Inquirer, War Risks of Military Officers. —Twenty to one against the special risk of death through war appear to bo the odds that more than one life assurance office is prepared to lay in the case of British officers who are to be engaged in South Africa should ...

... SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA. WAR APPARENTLY INEVITABLE. DOERS CONCENTRATING NEAR LAING'S NEK. The chances of a peaceful settlement of our quarrel with the Transvaal Government have appreciably lessened within the last few hours. War, in fact, seems now ...

... only left daughters by her. His successor was a son by his second wife. Mr U. W. Steevens, who has just gone out to South Africa as war correspondent of the Duffy Mail, is astonishingly prompt in the publication of his hooks. His With Kitchener to Khartum ...

... SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA. WAR APPARENTLY INEVITABLE. BOERS CONCENTRATING NEAR LAING'S NEK. The chances of a peaceful settlement of our quarrel with the Transvaal (Governmnent have appreciably lessened within the last few hours. War, in fact, seems now ...

... face with war. Another, and this time a final, refusal on the part of the Transvaal will leave the field clear for military action. Whether war is finally averted or not Ministers ate bound to prepare for it with the utmost energy. The War Off cc and ...

... thisbumiliation without having lnde up his milnd to an al med resistance. We are thus confronted by the imminence of war-the first white war on a large scale on w hich we have embarlked since the Crimea. It is desirable to point out clearly wiho is responsible ...

... threatened war as both a crime and a blunder. It has, therefore, been decided to appeal to those who are resolutely opposed to the threatened war to append t eir names to the following National Memorial Tim THREATENED WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. We, the u ...

... hoof when it goes on to dilate on the compensations which would be due to Bussia should Great Britain subjugate South Africa. A war in tbat region, it maintains, offers a most opportune occasion for the consolidation of Russian influence in Persia. Such ...

... threatened war as both a crime and a blunder. It has, theerefore, been decided to appeal to all those who are resolutely opposed to tho threatened war to append their names to the follow- ing National Memorial: 1'ViE THREATN1iED WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. We, the ...