17 MAY 1902, page 1

The Rush To Aid The Sufferers Came From All Quarters.

Con- gress voted £40,000, and will vote £100,000, and President Roosevelt, acting unofficially, has organised twenty-two Relief Committees, and officially sanctioned the......

News Of The Week.

B Y the time these pages are in our readers' hands the Boer delegates will have assembled at Vereeniging. They will include not only all the chief generals, but represen-......

It May Be That The Decision Will At The Last

moment go as the Daily Mail expects, and as we incline to believe. But even if hostilities nominally begin again, we do not believe that they will last very long. Our military......

The Truth As It Drips In From Martinique Is Worse

than the worst rumours. At 7.30 on May 8th the volcano, La Pelee, at the north end of the island, which had been threatening, and indeed exploding, for some days, burst out in......

. It Is Not Likely, However, That This Sensible Suggestion

will be adopted, the experience of ages showing that after these awful catastrophes the survivors still cling to their ruined property, and consider` poverty preferable to......

We Conjecture That The Course Of The Negotiations Will Be

some- what as follows. The Boers will begin by very high demands, including virtual independence, and will haggle obstinately day by day, making only nominal concessions.—Those......

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