A HUMANE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 147, 22 June 1901, Page 5

A HUMANE WAR.

ATTITUDE OF THE LIBERAL

PARTY

LONDON, June 21

In an address to the Essex Liberal Federation Mr Asquith declared that the South African war was most humanely conducted. No man in "the Empire was more permeated with the spirit of humanity than Lord Milnei". It was impossible to restore the status of the Kepublicsi, but he hoped to see a federated dominion on the model or Canada or Australia. Mr Asquith protested against the Liberal Imperialists

being" denounced as schismatics. They neither repented nor recanted their .view that the war was forced upon Groat' Britain without adequate reason, and entirely against our will. No authority in the Liberal Party, pontifical or otherwise, was empowered to excommunicate the holders of that view. The resolution passed at the Queen's Hall pro-Boer meeting inculcating unconditional surrender to the Boers was, he said, not an authoritative exposition of Liberal opinion.

I (Received June 21, 11.57 p.m.)

LONDON, -Tune 21

Mi' Austen Chamberlain, speaking at a Conservative luncheon, in London, declared that the meanest scribbler in the meanest journal never made a

more infamous or unfounded charge Jthan that wde by Sir H. Campbell-,-Bannercnan, alleging the barbarity of Lord Kitchener or the army.