Lest we should fail to represent Sir Edward Grey's conten-
tions fairly by any abstract of our own, we will quote textually his tramming-up of the chief points in his case;—" In the first place, his (General Buller's] first simple demand to publish the correct version of the telegram from him to the officer under his command, not without provocation, but after a garbled version had already been made public, is refused; secondly, when leave is granted to publish the telegram, other telegrams for which he has never asked are sent to him, with strict instructions to publish them all together textually as they stand; and when he protests that that is not a fair selection, the reply of the 'War Office is that he can have nothing more, that he can take his choice whether he publishes them or not, and that the correspondence must be broken off; thirdly, all through this matter there has been either a leakage or a publication of everything unfavourable to Sir Redvers Buller, while every- thing necessary to judge his conduct in a true light and in its proper perspective, and the situation in which he was placed, has been withheld."
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