London vid Bombay, 20th November.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, in a speech at Plymouth, said that he despaired of the peril now facing the country in South Africa being overcome as long as Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Milner retain their present offices.
Only a draft of the 21st Lancers is going to the Cape.—Reuter, London vid Bombay, 21st November, Kitchener's Scouts have killed Boers and captured fifty-four, including two field-cornets.
tis stated that one method by which the War Office proposes to increase the strength of the army is the raising of new militia battalions, The Hague Council of Arbitration has decided that it is not competent to deal with the Boer appeal for 2 arbitration—Reuter, London vid Bombay, 24th November, The offer of Canada to raise a farther contingent of six hundred mounted men has been accepted.
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