... House of Lords to ask a question. Ft was not about the SpanishlAmerican..War, which was then raging, it was not about the vwr clouds, which, even then, were gathering over Sth Africa. It wah, Did -a certain milnister.of the church give azittle prayer book; ...

... convinced the ?? of the ifferences might be settled witht -war. : Mr Comp'oa 'icket, .orough member, wrote that in -the caiise of peace it would be wise to increase the British forces in Soiith Africa, so as to 'onviece the Boers of the 'hopelessness of r ...

... Dreyius the culprit (great sensation). He read a long extract from a letter which he wrote to General Bil- lot, then Minister of War, on the 6th Januaury, 1898, to-protest aginst these- lies. -'eneral Billot made rV reply, and did not institute any inquiry ...