5 MAY 1900, page 1

News Of The Week.

T HE tops of the bayonets and sabres are just beginning to appear through "the fog of war" which for the last fortnight has been drifting in such wide wreaths and involving in......

The General Situation Of The Campaign May Be Summed Up

as follows. The Boer raiders have been entirely cleared out of the south-east angle of the Free State, and it is still possible that some of them may be caught in the......

The Vienna Correspondent Of The Times, Who Has Seldom Proved

wrong, is gloomy in his anticipations of the next meeting of the Austrian Parliament, which begins on May 8th. A language Bill is to be introduced, and it is believed that the......

The German Emperor Has Practically Carried His Navy Bill,...

rather, a compromise which secures his main object, —viz., a great fighting Fleet. The Catholic Centre has refused to give him cruisers for foreign service, but has consented to......

The German Government Is Not So Lucky With Regard To

its Meat Bill. It is said that a compromise has been arranged about this also, but it is not one which avoids the main difficulty. The Agrarians, who are masters of the situa-......

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