The Settlement in South Africa.
: February 15. In the House of Commons, Sir Henry-Campbell-Bannerman blamed the remiss* ness of the Government in sending reinforcements to South Africa. The political conduct of the war was not conducive to an early and honourable settlement. He implored the Government to offer more generous terms than unconditional surrender. Mr Balfour said that the reinforcements sent to South Africa exceeded Lord Kitchener’s demands. He believed Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman would be willing, immediately hostilities ceased, to confer full representative institutions on the annexed colonies, a step which the Government considered unsafe. Unconditional surrender meant the abandonment of the idea of independence, but not the surrender of individual independence. The struggle must end in absolute and complete conquest. Lord Salisbury said the guerilla war was always difficult to quell when backed by great enthusiasm. There was no hopei of abiding peace unless the British were masters and conquerors. Anything short of complete triumph would endanger the colonial Empire.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 110, 19 February 1901, Page 4
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161The Settlement in South Africa. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 110, 19 February 1901, Page 4
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