SPEECH BY LORD SALISBURY.
GENERAL GORDON AVENGED. MAJUBA STAIN WILL BE ERASED. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received 11, 1.15 a.m. LondoN) May 10. The Marquis of Salisbury, addressing the Primrose League, said the turn in the tide of Imperialism was traceable to the stain of Majuba Hill and the Gordon blunder. General Gordon's death had now been avenged, and the greater humiliation of Majuba was about to be erased. Under Lords Roberts's and Kitchener's brilliant guidance, the largest army ever sent across the same expanse of sea was reducing to obedience to the Queen territories which ought never to have been released from her control. The restoration of South Africa was the only chance of peace. The disloyalty of the Transvaal in secretly arming to such terrible advantages suggested the lesson that Great Britain should know better now than she did a decade ago of the risks of giving a disloyal people the reins of Government. Iroland had had a similar opportunity, and the verdict on the Home Rule question would meet with no early reversal.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 96, 11 May 1900, Page 3
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175SPEECH BY LORD SALISBURY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 96, 11 May 1900, Page 3
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