HONOURS FOR COLONIALS.
SPEECHES BY MR CHAMBEELAIN , , AND LOBD MILNER.
{Received Oot6ber Slat, , 0.i7 a,m.) . LONDON/October 30." The- Kingi" at St. James's , -Falace, presented- Distinguished Service Orders to Captain '. Tivey- (Victoria),, Captain Beid (Queensland), and Lieut. Vernon (Western Australia)'. * ■ Mr Chamberlain, speakingtat Cupar, said the war -would.have«been over long ago if misguided-'Britishers bad nob .'induced the Boers to believe that their persistence would weary Great Britain.. Lord Milner, speaking, at Durban, said the war was burning- itself out, and there was nothing left for it to feed upon. General French, reports that only two commandos are left intthe Cape midlands— .that of Vandervouter, in the Victoria West district, and a., force led by #routvers, •Pypera, and Smuts, who have combined forces in the Oodtscoonn. district. Colonek - Williams and Fortescue expelled a force of Boers at Dewagen DrHt, 'killing .six' and capturing seventeen'
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11110, 31 October 1901, Page 5
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