IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 11168, 17 February 1900, Page 3

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

ROSEBERY A3S9WEIL . • - ’ —— j '-vt ’’sJ HAD ROSEBERY ONLY WAITED.Press Aasooiation—B^Telegrapb—Oopyrightf LONDON, February. 16, - la the House of Lords Lord Rosebery criticised the Government's military pro, posals in an impassioned speech. He cotn\l. Ned as to themovements of the militicu and said that the country was being denuded of troops. The proposals of the Government were inadequate, and showed no conception of the urgent gravity Of the present crisis, the imminence of the danger, or the overburdening tension in the country. South Africa’s ravenous maw demanded many victims. Whore were the 50,000 additional men required to come from ? Foreign nations were well aware of Great Britain’s military deficiencies, and it was impossible to reckon upon their benevolent neutrality, ,If South Africa were lost to Great. Britain we would lose the enthusiastic support of the colonies. The Government ought to take a larger grasp of the situation, and recognise that it was a matter of bfe and death.

Lord Lftoadowne denied that Lord Roberts had asked for more troops than were already under orders. At the same time, if more men were needed they would be sent.

Lord Salisbury ridiculed Lord Rosebery’s lugubrious vaticinations, arguing that it was useless to insist upon providing against dangers that were not likely to arise. The tide of war was changing in Great Britain’s favor, and be felt confident that the campaign would prove successful,. In the House of Commons the Supple* mi ntary i s'.imates were brought down by the Government. They were carried by 239 votes to 34. LONDON, February 16. In the House of Commons Mr Wyndham said that the expense of the volunteers training during 1900 would be -paid by the taxpayers.