NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE war is over,—or, at any rate, the serious campaigning. On Thursday Lord Roberts made his formal entry into Johannesburg, and the British flag was hoisted on the public buildings, President Kruger having fled from Pretoria to Lydenburg on Monday, leaving the town in the hands of a sort of Committee of caretakers, pending its occupation by our troops. As we have said elsewhere, it is possible that there will still be a good deal of con- fused fighting up and down the country, in which our flying columns will be engaged in the work of breaking up Boer bands, but anything that can be properly called war is now at an end. It is also possible that a certain number of Boers will make a last stand in the Lydenburg district, but even if they do there need be no anxiety as to the matter, since Lord Roberts would not need more than a couple of months to reduce their stronghold. There are rumours that President Kruger has been captured, but we sincerely hope that they are not well founded and that he has escaped. He would only be a source of worry and embarrassment in our hands, and when once out of the Transvaal he can do us no harm.
