The advance body of the main column of the British left Obbia on under the command Numbers fell tel, owing to the intense clusive service, 23rd March.
Owing to the newspaper of the operations i in Somaliland, censors have been stationed throughout the country, diy controlling all correspondence, private and other= all other sources of labour must first be exhausted.—Reuter.
Later.
Messrs. Skinner and Noyes, Commissioners of the Transvaal Mining Industry to study the question of Chinese labour, have arrived in Lon-They sail on the 28th inst. for New York, whence they will proceed to California to visit the mining centres. They are then to sail for Yokohama to spend two months in the Chinese ports and the Malay Peninsula, notably at Singapore—
London via Bombay, 2ist Murch.
Mr. Chamberlain received tion in the City on the eccas the presentation by the Corporation of an Address at Guildhall. He said that he was more than ever convinced that the late war could not have been prevented, but he looked with confidence to the futnee, and believed that the problem of South Africa was settled at last—Reuter.
Later.
After the presentation of the Address, Mr. Chamberlain drove with ise.
The transport being defective, one thousand camels are being sent to the front.
The troops are suffering from the trying climate.
Communication has been _permanently established between Obbia and Berbera.—F-clusive service.
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