All these arguments were not very cult for the Opposition te reply tos aunt indent th most important of them were very effectively disposed of by one of the Prime Minister's own colleagues, his tuy for War, Lord Lansdowne. not, true," the Marquis of Lansdowne declares in effect, that we did not know the "stent of the Boer armaments. The Int! Zgenee Department of the Army. was well i for the si? Doct and communi cated i: informati.s te the Guvermment.
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