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We Need Not Record The Rumours, Of Which Throughout The

week the air has been full, about negotiations between Lord Rose- bery and Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman. Sometimes they are described as letters, again as messages, and......

Further Despatches And Telegrams Show The Successful...

Firman's camp at Tweefontein to have been one of De Wet's boldest and most ably executed strokes. Major Williams, in the absence of Colonel Firman, had encamped on the side of a......

News Of The Week.

1 ORD ROSEBERY has published an authorised edition of I his Chesterfield speech, which he says, however, contains only "the skeleton " of his policy, He adds a remark which,......

The German Government Claims A Sum Of £450,000 From That

of Venezuela, not, as seems to be imagined, as money owing by private citizens to German subjects, but as money violently withheld by the Government of Venezuela, most of it......

Against The Tweefontein Disaster, However, Distressing As...

must be placed the incontestable evidence of further attrition furnished during the week. The reduc- tion in the enemy's strength in December amounts to a thousand, probably......

The Quarrel Between Chili And Argentina Smoulders Still....

" protocol " which was to settle everything so satis- factorily has been signed, but nothing is settled more than before. Both Republics are calling out troops, and in Buenos......

*.* The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Hanuseript,in...

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