Under the title of "The War as [Sav Mr. Winston Churchill (who has Intely returner from South Africa, where ho went as war correspondent for the " Morn ing Post delivered two lectures during the pact few days at St. James's Hall, the firet being presided over by Lord Wolseley and the second by Dr. Conan Doyle. Ca Doth occasions he had immense audiences which included many military men, and his utterances were listened to with profound attention. He commenced by telling that ho had the honour of the teameo which conveyed Sit Redvers Buller to the seat of war, and that on their arrival they found the situation far graver tim when they left England. He went direct to Natal, and'said that no one who had not been on the spot at the time could form the least idea of the dificalties by which our Gene~ rals were beset in the initial stages of the war, Tu the Boers they found men who had been used to fighting from their childhvod—born soldiers, men 0 who were capital sportstn ud bad extraordinarily good eyesight—added to this they were fully armed with up-to-date rifles and guns of such long range that old-fashioned tactics were powerless against them. Though the lecturer said it would be unbecoming in him ts make comments on the strategy of war, he more than hinted that the tactics adopted at the end
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