Chief of the General Staff, entertained at luncheon Lieut.-General Sir W. G. Nicholson and Lieut.-General Sir Ian S. Hamilton of the British Army, who recently came to Japan to witness the present war. Yesterday afternoon the two Generals and their aides-de-camp, Lieut.-Colonel Haldane, D.8.0., of Aldershot and Major Crawford of Ottawa, were presented to Their the Emperor and Empress by Sir Glaude MacDonald, the British Minister here. Claude gave a dinner yesterday to the party, when Marquis Ito, Count Matsukata, Vis:
The City and the War. tit is the public Press, knows that there movement avn ty in favour of something rea inst the at itude me war, strongly wih J the British borne upon them very few yeats that the yre tsi ts" is peace, Aheady th's begun sessionsly to aller our trade is fet crests in Mar ch nue 1 tro all to jast fy us in slight risk of becoming i 1th March, ell in' the! who lad then tendered their resignations, Mr. Balfour refused his consent. He does not deny ind-ed, that while most anxious.
the D.ke in the Cabinet he felt hers must go. But though res of the Prime Minister inay have been a litre sinuous, there is hing in them to justify the charges of dis honourable conduct. which have bern 1 in some quarters. He had et rid of Lord George ax Ritchie, and the extreme danger in which he stond of hopeless disruption of the Unionist doubt necessitated a certain of diplomacy.
Lord Resebery's Outburst. regard to the other point, the utativa of to alternative schemes, seems to be no dawut that in addition ious pamphlet Mr. Balfour did the Cubinet mestings—if the ast but one before the—a confidential memorandum in which e prop "prion measure of prefer food tax cedure:, however, that this als definitely withdrawn and that therefore he did not
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