Mr. St. John Brodrick, in introducing the supplementary war estimates of £16,000,000, said that he was unable to anticipate a reduction of expenditure before the 81st of March.
We must continue the war (in South Africa) with the strongest Parliament reassembles on the 12th of February.
A DISASTER IN THE TRANSVAAL, Twenty-five hundred Boers under Generals Delarey and Deyers attacked General Clements at Nooitgedacht, The first attack was repulsed, but the second was more successful, and General Clements retired on Peck-ort. The fighting was very severe. Hussars; ceria ki A. E. Macbean, lonel Norton Legge, D.S.O., 20th
D.S.0., Royal Dublin Fusiliers; Captain A. J.C. Murdock, Ist Cameron Highlanders; and Captain W. Atkins, Wiltshire Regiment; were among the killed.
London, 17th December.
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