In reply to a question raised in the Dominion' House of Commons offering Canadian troops for service in South Africa, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian Premier, said that he hoped that the Transvaal would submit without hostilities.
BOERISHNESS, The text of the new proposals is most.complex, and the concessions are hedged by elaborate limitations. The Times describes them as a mockery, the Daily Telegraph calls them 'a rigmarole of inconsistencies, and the Daily Chronicle says they are curiously complicated.
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