... and it may well happen that this unholy war may brirn about a fresh distribution of politics. But there wilI be no crisis, at least until the terrible consequences of the blood feud in South Africa that war must create are rea- lised by the people. ...

... the present atxained relations and the incalculabhe injury and lose that have alreadyteen caused thereby to South Africa, and prevent war between the two raws from the consequences of which South Ahic would not recover for several ?? haps never. Therefore ...

... England is to beoverilor of a4itouth Africa. , Notwithstandiin the hordes of adventurers .e irom England and other parts of the world h. who during the last ten years have swarmed ti tb'-he Rand1 the Dutch of South Africa are *still themajority of 'thel white ...

... -Seoretary, ,hose who knew his aspixa- ,tibns and his connections with the Rhodesian party p*opheeied that:. webhould have war in South Africa within. eighteen moiths,. The! IJameson Raid.came within half a year',and the full history of the origin of th4t criminal ...

... Tronsvaal Go- vernment, suggestions, be it remembered, taken mainly from a British despatch there will be war. What that war means all who ?? Africa are agreed upon. It imeans the beginning of the rise of the South African Republie. We may crush this ...

... opinion that there exists no cause for war, and that war against the Transvaal, if now undertaken nor occasioned by the Imperial Government, will morally be war against the whole white popu- lation of South Africa, and in its consequences criminal, for ...

... week. Among other visi. tors to the War Office was Inspector W F Fairie, of the Natal Mounted Police, who leaves for South Africa on Saturday. Frequent exchange of communications between the Fo- reign, Colonial, War, and India Offices and Admiralty continues ...

... Harms- worth's London newspaper, which has mide- vs ?? with- tne methods of Yellow -ournal ism in it uncrupuloucampaign for:* war, -Points out, tthough the!' Daily News.. policy may -appear to be somewhatMinvolved, ' it has the apeicial meiit'of giving ...

... the Orange Free State should assume. I feel I must again state my opinion that nothing has happened to war- rant war or attack on the Trans- iaal. A war on points of difference which can easily be settled by a Conmmission or bv arbitration would net only ...

... to naval mobilisation, and the Admiralty and War Office are in constant, touch with the Colonial Secretary. .. Lord 1M4ps dowue and Mr. Goschen ae kept informed of al important telegrams from South Africa. A miii ary correspondent ?? or41- nary preparations ...

... used merely to prepare for war i In this connection it is noted as of some signlficance that no further troops have been ordered. out as result'of the meeting of the Cabinet., There are fifteen thousand troops in South Africa; there are ten thousand-upon ...

... B;Jsntoa will certainly attaek the Free Sttte if in the event of War it joins the Tranaraal. ACTIVITY AT THE WAlt OFFICE. . Lnande, Monday. The Press Association states that at the War Office to-day Lord Wolseley was in attendance shortly after ten o'clock ...