PEACE MEMORIALS.
(To the Editor.) Sir,-In your leader of the 17th inst.,, on this subiect, referring to the termination of the war in South Africa, you say: "We cannot be wrong then in comf e}l^^ our preparations for the great occasion so that it shall receive fitting honour our hands." Willyou permit me to say. Sir, that I fail absolutely to see how any occasion can reasonably be called great which celebrates the triumph of a host over "a handful of herdsmen, of an Empire with all its resources, of 350 millions, over two small republics of a Quarter of a million, without a ship and without a port, or in round numbers the triumph of .fourteen hundred over one! 'Tls tfhrase absurd to call such triumph .■great.- r lam, etc., w/wH . TTAKER .
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 199, 22 August 1900, Page 2
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