IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
COMPENSATION FOR DETEN. TION OF GERMAN VESSELB.
Received January 22, 9.19 a.m. London, January 21. Financial business precedes reform procedure.
In the House of Commons Viscount Cranborne, Under-Set rotary for Foreign Affairs, stated that £28,380 compensation was paid for the detention and search of German ■ vessels in South Africa.
The Right Hon. W. P. Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, said two thousand burghers constituted the Burgher National Scouts. They were doing excellent service.
Viscount Cranborne announced that prior to tho Spanish-American war the Powers made the suggestion that a joint note be sent to the United States. Britain ascertained America's wishes, and joined in hoping for a peaoeful settlement, with guarantees acceptable to America. During the war, Great Britain refused to join in proposals for putting pressure on America by offering an opinion on America's attitude.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7369, 22 January 1902, Page 2
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