News Of The Week.
A S we go to press, on Friday afternoon, comes the wel- come news that General French with horse artillery, cavalry, and mounted infantry reached Kimberley on Thurs- day......
The Manner In Which The Government Proposals Were...
in the Lords and Commons was distinctly cold, except that there was a fairly general agreement that the Government had done right in not proposing compulsory service. We agree,......
On Monday Lord Lansdowne In The House Of Lords And
Mr. George Wyndham in the Commons unfolded the Government's military proposals. We have given elsewhere our reasons for considering them inadequate, but will state here the......
In The Case Of The Militia, The Extra Men Are
to be obtained by putting the pay on the scale of the Regulars, and the whole force is to be improved by training for three or four months instead of one. The Volunteer......
In The House Of Lords On Thursday Lord Rosebery Made
a strong but, in our opinion, not too strong attack upon the military proposals of the Government, which he condemned as inadequate on very much the same grounds that we have......
