Out of the question of the Peace Negotiations the Opposition could make very little capita'.
An attempt las naturally been made by the extreme section of the Liberal Party to cast the whole blame of the failure of the negotiations upon Mr. Chamberlain, Even the rankest Pro-Boers are constrained to admit that the terms of peace proposed by Lord Kitchener were unexceptionable. Tf they erred at all they undoubtedly erred on the side of generosity. Therefore it is urged that the failure must have been due to the slight modifications made by Mr. Chamberlain in those terms, But the attack on the Colonial Secretary in the Hlouse last night was singularly halfhearted. Even Mr. Bryce, who led the attack, had to admit that many of the Colonial Secretury's modifications were ply in the direction of clearness and definiteness, and his speech resolved itself into an attack on "the so-called loyalists at the Cape," by which he explained he meant "the extreme faction who arrow gated to themselves the exclusive name loyalists," those who "desired to sea severe and vindictive pur 1 the Cape rebels," demand of ths Pro-for the recall of Sir Alfred Mi on this the government have made a ye-y definite anuouncem-ut of policy. Sit Alfred Milnee will certainly remain, Mr. Chamberlain defended himself and the government with his usual vigour and perfect self-possession. Indeed lite trid an easy case, Tt is perfectly obvious that Commandant Bothy refused the terms of peace not because he objected to them in details, but because he found it impossible to induce the other Boer leaders to surrender on any terms.
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