We are glad to note the precise and encouraging assurances
conveyed to the Lord Mayor by Lord Milner with regard to the treatment of loyalists in the two new Colonies. Lord Miler's letter, which grew out of the appeal to the British public suggested by Colonel Long, sets forth in plain language his grounds for holding that "there is no justification for the common charge thet the British Government are doing more for their late enemies than for their own people." He points out that a large sum has been allotted for the compensation of British subjects in addition to the £3,000,000 already devoted to the repatriation of burghers under Article 10 of the terms of surrender, and that these sums are independent of the payments being made by the military Compensation Boards on account of damage done and value received by the Army. It is too early, he continues, to estimate how far all claims will be met by these Government grants, but he con- siders that "be may safely say that British subjects will receive at least 50 per cent. on the total assessment of their claims, whereas it is improbable that the burghers will recover in anything like the same proportion the losses sustained by them through the war." We are glad to give prominence to this assurance in view of the prominence we have already given to the complaints of those who alleged that, as between Boers and loyalists, the latter invariably came off second best.
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