GENERAL BULLER'S MOVEMENTS.
TERMS OF PEACE. ATTITUDE OF THE CZAR. [united press association], (by electric telegraph— COPYRIGHT). London, November 16. The Standard is informed that General Bailee Ins gone up country. The plans for the relief of Ladysmith have been completed. The Daily Mail stares that Lieut.General Lord Meihuen and staff have stard d for the north. The Maiqt ; s of Satisbury, the Prima Minister, in a letter to the Times, in reply to Lord Edmond Fitzmauiicc, shows that he did not allude iu his speech at the Guildhall to the terms of peace with the Transvaal after the war. He expressly refused to discuss them. It transpires that Father Mathews repeated a rumour that was current at the moment of the surrender of the troops at Nicholson's" Nek, and which was to the effect fchat a young officer thinkiug his ten men the sole survivors iaised the white flag. The Irish Fusiliers were furious, alleging that the officer's action was a blunder. The Mansion House war relief fund totals £200,000, and the refugees' fund £170,000. Capetown, November 15. The authorities hive captured a wireless telegraph plant on shipboard intended for the Transvaal. Rome, November 16. The Osservatore Romano announces that the Vuticau has decided to remain neutral iu reference to the Transvaal war. Paris, November 15. The newspaper Gaulois states that the Czar refused Piincc Louis Napoleon, who holds the rank of colonel in a regiment of the Russian Guards, leave to serve with the Boers.
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Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 515, 18 November 1899, Page 2
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247GENERAL BULLER'S MOVEMENTS. Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 515, 18 November 1899, Page 2
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