The Archive · 1900

Conflict in South

_combined—such—v lode-stars for the mind. Colours are potent AFRICA. strategical maxim of Molt to check disaster, to rally fugitives, 4 to inspire attack, the chivalry that une lead, wharcvot dna eats cymbals 'The, following extract. from a repre: al, as their concen: surely never wasted..." And it was Smtatire snaete n paper. th Bose ipa point. Colon el Wood this sense of chi in another form cee ae cee coir tae dsolaped. toward' h column on the left which caused Sir Evelyn to return to the feeling now being displayed towards with his base at Ut clit, in the somthewest South Africa. as the guide, companion, Great fhritain Cly a very important section corner of the Ty al, which had. the and consoler of the Empress Eugenie when of the United States year hetero, been Hy annexed to she went out there to visit the spot where} Governor Mount snys that his sym-That was why Wood's column curie to her Imperial pathies are always with the oppressed, seanis of and ther are with the Boers include x body' of mounted Boers under a mission which caused it to he ju their issue with Great Britain. This the nave Piet Uys. who did excellent j sid court official that Ww is a youd deal of a non sequitur, if the for the esmmon emse—the pro i Evelyn Wood had done whatever he had facts be adhered to. It isnot the Boers who of the white population from is hand to, he had never achieved a are oppressed, but the other and much more ies. Wood ads anced with aus people who have built up the oldness but et in this personal errand te South vail. The Governor acknowledges news of wh: wits Evelyn failed not to achieve a that the British far outnumber the Boers in the annihilation of the success, his next mission to the till the Boers must have his at Tsmdlwana: and) that er must_be described as of the minds in not adn just as the defeat of 1 a successful failure. Colley had ting British subjects to citizenship." That riy imposed a policy a {heen beaten and killed by the insurgent hardly seems to cover the case. The ious Wellin: Boers. and the conqueror of Kamboula jo of the South have good reasons in the same manner Wood'

Mount was doomed to become the martyr mind for denying the negroes sufing same, he took up of Majula Hill. Wood, who had again frage and lynching negro criminals. But Samboula H Sent out to Natal, was burning reasons in one's mind have nothing what-rom time with the desire to wipe out the mili- r to do with rights. Now here are the is Buller to tary shame of Majuba, and declared to facts in the case drawn entirely from Boer ko them to] tue Home Government that he had the advocates.

att Boers "in the palm of his hand." But! One of the latest of these advocates has At last this policy had its effect, Mr. Glidstone's "magnanimity," for which a paper ina recent number of the North immense host) of andiseiplined "sav now paying very d over bore Americun Review. In this it is admitted hunched itself with dogged fury itary necessities of the case, and republic is an oligarchy Wood's handful of men, eonspie Wood, wh few dozen Boers. Its parliament when for their valour and discipline were consists of two houses, one of which his own "Perthshire Grey has no power and the' other of which Doth sides the battle was desp stcriticing spirit toa world of obloquy and is controlled by the oligarchy. Its thanks to the cool intrepidity of misunderstanding in the army by hee courts ate entirely at the mercy of Presi-and the stubborn bravery of his me ended in the complete repulse of thi the instrament of his polit dent Kriiger, who, in the last ten years, has Tt was now in North massed A private fortune of $25,000,000 And when that glorious Evelyn sought for the military distinction doing no business.

He recent-stid Wood himself after- Which had been denied him in the south joved the highest judges in the City Zulus of the Dark Continent: bnt alas! in the se they did not decide hho was condemned according to his pleasure, When the me they. seemed ver dependence of the 1 was conceded against om 1.800 nen, 3 4 expressly covenanted to put all in 1881 the credit entering the republic with Boers in every respect except the tot suiliage. But so far from stonvich to. stand up for ati inglorious Boers have arranged the strength with us at Ulundi, where the he was that nine-tenths of it is paid coguerors of Kamboule of © Sirda nder-in-Chief of by. the foreigners, who have to support prominent rie, the Exyptim army. As the holder of public schools in which the Dutch lan was heard to this hig: age is taught exclusively, and in the und not so fast I and nursed that army to such a state of private schools must give to Dutch an wrote Archibald Forbes, was radiant: perfection, as at last enabled it to march equ: ig with English. the rapture of the fray. as he rode up and Peri past. with cour own troops on{ They have maintained a monopoly down Lehind his regiment exposed, to a {he vations states of our reconquest of the dynamite, which is indispensable in min-storm of bullets," Wood's dispatches are Soudan. To Sir Evelyn, in 1884-89, was ing, and in. the profits. of this monopoly models of terse and clear battle-descrip- Gntrusted the stfequardiny of our long line President Kriiger has largely shared. tion, But, from the point of view of his of communication from Alexandria to Me- They have kept towns built exclusively biographer, they suffer from one extrem temneh, but this was his last service in the by Outlanders under Boer control, and rave defect=-they make no reference to! fold. refuse to permit decent sanitation, there-Himself. "Tt is im Evelyn Wood's com-"Yer there are services in the bureau by increasing the death rate. They have "that one hears least public usefulness, if not even denied Outlanders the right of peti-Wood."

Nevertheless ey. those of the battle. tion, They have prohibited any English-ever shini dz and in Pall Mall Sir Evelyn has, mn from carry nee, so that Ked even brighter Iaurels as an ad- riy i shing to pistrator than as a combatant he culled done for th in the © and on Kamboula Mount. surrounded Johannesburg aller have been the br he spots in this As" Quarter-Master- Commander guns, the entire cost of miserable wa names stand out se" Aldershot, and Adjurant-General, he taken out of the pockets ut Englishmen in bold yelief" similarly wrote Lord ° mote than any other living man, and Americans.

Chelmsford. "the names" of Wood and te Lord Wolseley, to "im When the independence of the Transvaal Bull provided that for-On his return heme he naturalised after tive he lad new been kn idence. But these laws were

and the city of London, which did its best spend eccption both in his native county are warranted were in part restored, they permitted onl; repealed, and when at a later period, they isa ionotrtuthisidedd soldier, Andacfor—GLARKE'S BAI PILLS 2 "872701 etiatidation at the and ut fifteen yours, the idealisia in this ideal soldier, either sex, all acquired or constitutional Tours residing in the district, and jeatipna {Sith the consent of two-thirds of the subject of regimental Discharges from the Urinary Organs, Gravel, military officer whose consent might be re-colours, which it was proposed to abolish, ins in the back, Free fiom Mereary. fused without any reason, and as a con-as infeed they are now no longer eat ried rds of 30 years. In boxes dition of naturalization every English-into action © Tr is suggested te ch. of all Chemists and Patent {man and American was required to rethronshess the. Work, Bounce all claim on his native Iand during After all they are w the fifteen years he was on probation. So, on a stick, and is it worth Proprietors, The Lincoln and Midland Coun- during that time, they were citizens of no while toTrisk men's lives for al piece of ties Drug Company, Lincoln, England. country, while at the end of it their avery silk? You might as well sayl 2 att naturalization might be denied entirely in

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