... TRANSPORTS. Mr. LLKWKLLYN teked whether the Secretory ot State (or War would eomlder the adri•ability of sanction log the issue o( daily ration ol beer to troops at sea when returning (ram South Africa. Mr. T. TAYLOR asked whether, it the tight bon. gentleman ...

... Ireland. It is rather tliat War Department should persist in barrack requisites which could nhUm3 as least cheaply in this country. The by Royal Highness the Duke 7c2‘ naught Commander of the Forces in Ireland^ '■ - *■«—aSt When the War Office was detected the ...

... oa their return from South Africa, whore they bod puteod through trying and arduous campaign, and had proved thomMlraa worthy ol the Empire. (Applauae) While at home tbe citizens had been discussing the progress of the war indicated in the newspapers ...

... latter NOTES THE WAR. THE VLAKPONTEIN ENGAGEMENT. {BY association military correspondent.) London, Friday Night.— lt is extremely onfortu* rate that moment when we sro looking forward the speedy termination of lbs war in Sooth Africa 174 of our mounted ...

... asms Little Englander he was when the war broke out. Nothing that has come to light in the coarse the campaign has induced him to change his mind. Not that he does not see there may occasions when the undertaking of war may be a national duty which cannot ...

... not affected. MR JOHN MORLEY AND THE WAR. Mr. Motley, addrtaeing bis constitamta at Montrose on Tuesday night, eaid he would aek tba people to consider whether there had been any solid and valid reason for the war in which we were now engaged. He had ...

... seconder, upon purely humanitarian grounds, without reference any broad question policy concerning the war. Some Liberal Imperialists who regarded the war as inevitable, and who have in the main refrained from opposing the Government during itscoarse, 1 ...

... himself with Sir Edward Grey, and—so far Lord Rosebery is still live politician—with Lord Rosebery in declaring the war in South Africa to be just. Mr. Asquith's announcement, first made in studied terms Liberal meeting, and followed up in the House Commons ...

... considered necessary to keep speo’al records. WAR CONTRACTS Ur. BRODRICK, in reply to Ur. E. Robertson, said approximate estimate of tbs total amonnt paid or to oontraotors in Sooth Africa in eonnfttlon with the war op to date coaid onlj be obtained bj very ...

... Dillon, Mr. BRODRICK said arrangements had bean made whereby ministers of religion living near the concentration camps in South Africa were allowed to visit them, but their ministrations must be religious and not to excite pciitical feeling. Replying to Captain ...

... (Hear, bear.) He was ready at all times to answer questions on any subject coimected with the war for which Lord Kitchener or the authorities in South Africa could be called to account, but if the abject was not to snatch argument or division unawares ...

... home shall apply to them on their return. OFFICIAL PROMOTIONS. The War Office announces that the King has been pleased to sanction, on the recommendation of the Secretary State for War, the following rewards and promotions put forward by Lord Kitchener ...