Plaz&MK BALFOUR REPLIES.
Mr Balfour, referring to tlie civil list, stated there were no debts to make good. TIIO reinforcements sent to South Africa exceeded Lord Kitchener’s demands. He believed Mr Bannerman would be willing, immediately hostilities cease, to confer full representative institutions on the annexed colonies, which the Government considered unsafe. Unconditional surrender meant abandonment of the idea of independence, but not the surrender of individual independence. The struggle must end in an absolute, complete conquest. CRITICISM IN THE LORDS.
In the House of Lords Earl Kimberley expressed dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war.
SALISEURY REPLIES:
Lord Salisbury said that guerillas were always difficult to quell when backed by great enthusiasm. There was no hope of an abiding peace unless the British were masters and conquerors. Anything short of complete triumph would be a danger to the Colonial Empire. The Address-in-Reply was agreed to.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 40, 16 February 1901, Page 3
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