ARMY IN SOUTH AFRICA.
MEAT TENDERS; (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT./ (Rec. Soptember 9, 11.3 p.m.) London, September 9. ' The War Office is inviting tenders, returnable by January 7, for twelve months' supply of frozen beef and mutton for tho Army in. South Africa, dclivory .to commence oil April 1. In' July the -special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle advocated tho withdrawal of:the army from South Africa, which would effect a saving of .£350,000 per annum. "There is,".he remarked, "no more loyal and peaceful part of the Empire than South Africa, yet it is garrisoned as if it .were another Ireland." It' was subsequently cabled that General Botha, Premier of the' Transvaal, had strongly urged the Imperial Government to retain a garrison in South Africa.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 298, 10 September 1908, Page 7
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124ARMY IN SOUTH AFRICA. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 298, 10 September 1908, Page 7
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