20 APRIL 1901, page 3

Mr. Samuel Smith, M.p., Addressed A Meeting Of His Con-

stituents at Tryddyn, Flintshire, on Monday evening. While utterly opposed to conscription for the Army, he saw no insuperable objection to requiring all able-bodied men to......

On Tuesday The War Office Published A Long Despatch From

Lord .Roberts to the Secretary of State for War drawing attention to the excellent work done by the various Depart- ments of the Army up to November 29th, 1900. We cannot......

The Election Of The Bishop Of London Was " Confirmed

" in the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, on Wednesday. After the Litany had been said by the rector, the Vicar- General, Sir J. Parker Deane, K.C., opened his Court, and......

Mr. Brodrick Drew Attention To The Number Of Wars In

China, in South Africa, in Ashanti, and in Somaliland which we have been fighting all at once, and said "there surely never was an Army which had to fight so much and talked so......

The South African Blue-book Issued On Wednesday Con....

other interesting matter, a long and states- manlike review of the situation by Sir Alfred Milner dated February 6th. The High Commissioner frankly admits that the last......

Added To The General Despatch Is A Special Report On

the field transport in South Africa which will take high rank in the literature of war. It is in fact an essay on transport, one of its mottoes being that "the regimental......

We Cannot Leave Lord Roberts's Report Without Noting His...

boast that while he was in chief com- mand in South Africa " no mishaps occurred, nor had any military operation to be postponed or aban- doned, owing to the transport being......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Friday 944.......