Adverse Government Criticism. London, March 11.
The fact of an armistice having been agreed to with the Boers in the Transvaal is receiving much adverse criticism in the Press and in political and military circles. The impression has got abroad that the armistice was sought by the British. A complete disavowal of the statement that Sir Evelyn "Wood had asked that hostilities Bhould be suspended has, however, been communicated to the Press by Mr. Gladstone, who, moreover, states that, although no definite information is to hand as to the exact circumstances which led to the armistice, he believes the proposal for the same originated with the President of the Orange Fres State, who has for some time being using every endeavour to bring about peuce.
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Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1358, 15 March 1881, Page 3
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