THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 August 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

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London, August 10. Lord Kitchener's proclamation emphasised ilie accomplishment o£ annexation aad the possession of seals of the Government public offices and all the railways. Lord Kitchener announces that there are* 85,000 Boers, either prisoners or surrenderors, living peacefully in towns or camps under British control. The few remaining in arms have lost almost all their guns and munitions, aie disorganised, or engaged in isolated attacks and acts of plunder and destruction. They are aimlessly prolonging bloodshed and ruining the peaccfuly disposed. Britian is determined to suppress all such lawlessness. In the House of Commons the Ministerialists regard Lord Kitchener s proclamation as, if it errs, leaning to the aide of leniency. Pro-Boers violently attacked Mr Chamberlain. In the House of Commons the grant of 6100,000 to Lord Roberts was finally carried by the closure by 192 against /3. The minority was composed of the Irish Nationalists. It transpires that the resolutions adopted by the Natal Ministry suggest- ' ing the banishment of the Boer leaders and the distraining of the property of those still in the field, reached Mr Chamberlain on July 25 th. Mr Chamberlain on the 30th forwarded Lord Kitchener a draft of the proclamation which the Natal and Cape Governments passed on August 2nd and 3rd respectively, and which were approved in the House of Commons. Mr Chamberlain, in reply to Mr Channing, member for Northamptonshire x . East, and a strong opponent of the J Government’s war policy, said that Lord Kitchener fully approved of the proclamation before it was drafted. There has been a general advance in stock as a result of the proclamation. Consols are 93|. The Daily News describes the proclamation as an empty thunderbolt, ihe foolish blunder of a bafiled bully seeking to cow where he cannot conquer. London, August 11. Lord Kitchener’s proclamation provoked an outburst in France and Germany of unfriendliness towards England. Some of the papers describe the position as the bankruptcy of English generalship.