The Daily News. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1901. THE BRITISH PUBLIC AND THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 194, 29 August 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1901. THE BRITISH PUBLIC AND THE WAR.

No better evidence of the determination of the British public to carry the war in South Africa to a successful issue, and its confidence in the Generals in command can be found than that contained in a cable which appeared in our issue of yesterday. The c:ble referred to was to the effect that " the iisue of a million in British Treasury bills, to replace matured bills was covered seven fold at the lowest rate of interest since the beginning of the war." The very best barometer of public opinion in the old world is admittedly the money market, and the i rise and fall of interest is one of the best indications of the pro'pacts of peace or war. So sensitive is th* financial barometer that it is most carefully watched, not only at Home, but abroad, by all the leading states men of the day. Even at the time when things looked darkest in South Africa, just before Lord Roberts took command, the steadiness of the British money market was taksn by the people on the Continent of Europe as the clearest indication that the British nation intended to see the war through to a successful issue. .This was not without its effect on ths attitude of some of these nations who were undoubtedly secretly in sympathy with , the Boers.