Almost simultaneously with this "elec-pioneering" speech of Mr. Chamberlain's comes a new report that the Cabinet have resolved, unless unforeseen circumstances should arise, to dissolve Parliament at the close of the session and hold the general election in October. A few weeks ago there was a good deal of talk about a khaki election but shen this Chinese trouble became acute the opinion became largely accepted that the election would be holdover to next year. There are, however, signs now that the trouble in China may be made an additional reason for urging the constituencies to give Lord Salisbury another vase of power. It may be argued that at a time of crisis like this it is the duty of every true patriot to maintain the existing government in power at any price. Lord James of Hereford delivered a speech the other day in which he roussel the wrath of the Liberal leader by comparing the Liberal Imperialist to a traitor attacking the Government under cover of a white flag. The General Election, he declared, must be fought on the South African question, and the South African question alone; and those who consider that our cause in the war is a just cause, and the Government have acted lightly in the prosecution of the war, are hound in honour to support the Unionist Party. This is to make it a "khaki election" with a vengeance THE HOStITAL quiry.
The Hospital Inquiry has begun, and the Committee of Inquiry has been invested with the dignity of a Royal Commissiom,
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