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FROM THE INVESTORS ZEVIBW," Everything that poses in relation to the Bouth African resndals confirms us in the opines that there will be no rest and branch investigation, no thorough clearing up, nor any ganning effert ads to punish the guilty appointed Under pressure the Government kas
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| stapid, bolpless multitude who pay and grumble, and blindly worship those by whom they may be defrauded. Here we have cause and effect exhibited in a manner which should be an object leasen to the Britisk votar, but be, after passing. is of rags and strong language, falls back into the old rat, and as long as he has broad to eat, and some kind of clothing to put on, leta tisa thiovos alone honours them perhaps, and bows before them always with meekness should "Restitution," they be titled or blatantly rich. "Exposure," "Fall disclosure of the stealings!" My dear air, what are you talking about? Is not the whole art of getting on in these days successful theft? Ask any African boas or beas's hanger-ou, any peer or peeress of your acquaintance the man in the street, others failing sad evok: after regret you had no opportunity to share in the spoils.
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is death; and death, you know, is punishment.¦ He could not have died for his own zin, for I tell you, he was such a good boy; or for his country's sin, because I know its causo is just. And failing to find out the caces of his death, esme to the conclusion that bis death most be due to his mother's sin; and that I may pro pitiate my sin that must have cracd-107 hear boy's death, I thus go on my pilgrimage throughopt the land, that bie sout any be
peace..
As she finished her story, big drops of tours rolled isen bor sau buat chocks.
My friend repeated the story to me in This tears, and I heard it in tears, too. is typical war-news, mare interesting: to mo than the capture of Port Arthur or the annihilation of Rozhdestvansky's first.
"A poor, superstitions, benthien- -woman-to you call Ler Her thanlogy may ha mistaken,
and whose theology is wholly unanistaken ?----- The subjoined lotter if of such significance but her heart, how genuinely human and that we reprint it below, Ir. Balfour, Mr. Japanese O politicians, O journalistė, O Arnold-Forster, and Mr. Preteman have a missionaries, when you praise war next time, assisted doubtless by the incriminated War think of wamon such as her. She, unlike you, Offico, put forward other estimates touting to has neue other to blans for her greatest mis minimise the losses. As however, they rotor fortune but herself. She does not blame you, other lead worshippers of the War-god "heathen woman," I thau those embraced in the Butler report, their though you be hap only effect is to strengthen the impression that ¦ kuow; lint in the Geest Future I would ma thor the losses from first to last inflicated apon the dwell with her than with all the Bishops and aulappy taxpayers of this country the Archbishops whom the world has produced.
by camp authors and other larpins supplied Tokyo, August Jet, 1905. our army in South Africa are encounted millions beyond anything known or admitted. So far as the Ministers are concerned, the fact that they one and all defend the thieves and resort to dishonest subterfuge in order to try to conceal the truth may enable us to grasp the valus of their professions of Imperial patriotism. Aa Imperial pateict is evidently to be nurter. stood na a man who sympathizes with those who
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return to
quite respectable Royal Commission which, provided the Opposition behaves itself, is to be slowed with wide powers. Mr. Balfour says, but none of the individual members of this Commission are specially eminent either as niea of business, of practical experience in affaire, or as.expert analysers of evidence. Mr. Justive Farwell is thoroughly. trustworthy and compotent as a Chapeory judge, but has had he exporiones in the cross-examination of witnesson. Sir Georga Taubone-Goklien had a distinguished career as governer of the old Royal Niger Company, and one of the augotiators for the rule of the company's political rights to the British Government at a very firat-class price. He is also familiar to na as the gentleman who, after a visit to South Africa, proposed that the Government should
the of the DOMESTIC CLEANLINESS and out provide it with a few millions of working of Consols, VENTILATION BYE LAWS (as amended), capital, all by an emission every domestic building or part of such building. Sir George White is a most respectable within the Eastern Division of the City of collier, honest as the day, simple.
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business Viatoria and the Eastern Division of Kau-lung also. occupied by rambers of more than one family capacity whatsoever. kir Francis Mowatt 10ust be CLEANSED and LIMEWASHED is an able ex-Trassery official endowed probably THROUGHOUT by the owner during the with but a limited knowledge of the intricacies mouths of July and August.
of bookkeeping, and Mr. Samuel Hope Morley N.B.-The word throughout used in this is a tan of large axprience as merchant and that the bars should be lime. banker, who perkops knows more of the outs notice means
And
of cccount-keeping than any of his ins washed in respect of all the walls of each room and staircase-all cubicle partitions stair callongus. Together these estimable men may casings and-stair-laings, all ceilings and thend out a few things, and it is possible that we undersides of roof both in main buildingce, shall have sonis clear exposition of the mundua rob the nation, and it is not too much to disclars theso, since they occur at raro intervals on offices and sercunist quartera aud inclusive of paraadi utilised in the transfer of untoblant probably one of the strongest matices other systems At the same time we feel that. millions from, the Fockets of the British actuating the present Ministry in clinging to the insulation of the local installation calle public to those of the gontieran behind office is to be found in its desire to prevent the the nominal contractors and executive off-truth about the swindling in Africa and have for comment. We recorded on Saturday cials fuplicated Anything, however, like from lonking out. No traher of the Govern- adrisedly to a young lady living here. cañu of worious accident-we say serious thorengh exposure of the malfeneanees is
ment has expressed regret for or contrition
Fortunately not to be looked for from those amatear over these appalling robberies. On the contrary the danger of bad wiring was
fatality
but further official gentlemen-amatour in the business their wrath and abu-o have been poured out
whea a guard onse we mean-still tess any tracking down of oxclusively upon those who have had the exemplified on the most culpable. Fat probably the every conrage and honesty to tell na as much of wire broke, felt across the live-wiras nour police station and from ment in this r nepect cannot help itself. To be trach as they could each. We tust theeyah Lebar
Bayal Commissioner is an honorary affair, electorate will ponder over exbibitions of seal bullock and killed it. It is impossible for us the live wires to the ground, where it fell across for the public welfares such as wo kavo beon day productive of titles often, but not of cash, and
first class accountant or archant in the by day treated to this week, and some of its say what the respectivo effect electricity Inson City could afford to give up his time is an
leaders might try to bring home to single animals and human haings, but it is reasonable o suppose that had the wire fallen on the driver investigation of this kind, to any Royal Com- minds what a loss of eren such a paltry sum as
ho would have been seriously shocked: he was nission business whatsoever. Therefore, it is £6,000,000 implies. How many beneficial public
comary to full back upon goatlowon of leisure, works might have beep nyocuted at home and in fact somewhat shocked through trying to
that money been saved to the nation? How
reniuse the wire. It is perhaps unavoidable eminent lawyers, retired Treasury officials, and
much
Honey
interest would the floating debt have that live wires may, with careless driving, be people of that sort, when work of this honorary and honours"-hatching description has to be drawn from the pockets of the taxpayer? There brokon, but that a guard wire should, for an at are a hundred ways by which the cruelly of these conducte to the meth, is an indication which presont aux plained reuson, break and become s robberies might be brought home to the commou understanding, at the same time that the heart loss the authorities an explain that the circum- sems to show particularly bad wicing. Doubt- less indifference of the party in power to the stances were entirely exceptional, but the ugly fast sufferings of the nation is set in relief.
Of the total amount of loss to the public romsios that the wire which was meant us through the transactions with regard to the protection broke down without any of the surplus stores in hand in June, 1902, I myself been imposed. It has been said that the voltage stress it is supposed to provide against, having made no estimate whatever, bar drew an employed is within the safety limit of the Board. inference from fact in ovidence. These facts of Trade, but this obviously either an error, simmarised are as follows:-
since a lady was rendered unconscious for sams time and a bullock has been killed, or such accidents aro not oogsitlored officially "serions. It is, we ropeal, impossibile to got over the fact tlast twe serious accidents have occurred, and absolutely no stops have been taken to reassurs the public..
The back yard should have its containing walls limewashed up to the level of the first floor.
Curved, painted or polished woodwork in good condition, however, nood not be lime- washed but must be cleaned.
The Eastern Division of the City is bounded on the West by Gilman. Strost and Peel Street. Koa-lung is divided into the Easter and Western Divisions by Robinson Road and a straight line drawn from the north and thereof through the Yanati service reservoir to the northern boundary of Kan-lung.
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But if the Commission is not a particularly strong one, what are we to say about the Govern ment and its attitude towards these revelations At first it was startled almost out of its slender senses by the uncompromising language of the Butler Committee's report, but day by day since, it has been getting back its courage, or its ioso lent assurance, its contarapt for the tax-paying On Monday, even, when the vote of G. REISS & CO., LD. censure delate took place, there were signs that a bold frout was to be presented to the that instead of penitence we should have nud-throwing in the style of the guinea-pig director caught in a swindle, and Mr. Brodrick should long live in political memory as the desperately pathetic figure he depicted himself to be a man toiling from mura all night without help or interval for more than a year, working at beyond the midnight hours, ond never once, as slanderously alleged, betaking himself disguised as a volunteer to Germuny to buy
for our distrossed army, with the help of a Gorman journalist as interpreter, emitting order with a feverish rapidity that left him no -time to reo whether said, orders were attended to or not; a man Lept ignorant likewigs, bulked by his subordinates, denied information, est contemptuously at defiance, a very Samsun caught in the toils of a corrupt War Office. CANVASORT it was just sweet! And he knows the names of those who are guilty, the dear man, but dare not tell them except to the Commission, which was also great. Much more of the same kind thers was, all calculated to make plain what da energetic, small mind may, by its zealousness, cost a nation when put in a position of responsibility. For the rest is not Butler "a ddrascal" to all Gavarument, mor?
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Colonel Morgan estimated thos surplus stores at abont
To further stated that Lord Kitebener sold of them to Lord Milner stores whereof the agrood pries (as stated at p. 235 of the Army Appropriation Acconta dated January, 1004) was
+
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Leaving surplus stores in hoad at: end of Juus, 1902, value
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And this leavĖS.
1,381,000
£6,619,000
560,898
£6,058,102 From the evidence of these figures I inferred that the loss to the public was something like eix millions.
My inference, as I-said, scemed supported by simpression left upon the House that Mr. Ritchie, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time, hud be led by the Wer Office to beliere that he might expout six millions from these sales in support of his Eadget; whereas, in fact, be received nothing.
This impression was subsequently to y speech strikingly confirmed by Mr. Ritchie's own avowal that he bad, in foot, baen, led to Boldor still did the Government grow by the expect this by the War Ofco; and I submit, middio of the week when it was able to put up therefore, that there neither was nor is saything an underling to declare that there had been nooither rush or extravagant in the inference I losses on supplies, but really a profit. To prove draw. this statement, figures for a different period from that of the scandals dealt with by the Butler Committen were insolently spread-before the astonished eyes of the electorate in all the newspapers. And at this rate by another, week or two we shall be finding out that, somewhere bid
£6,000,000 or away, there
may be £10,000,000 to come into the Treasury after all, money promised to Mr. Ritchie, but not yet forthcoming, just on the way from Park Lane, Baden-Baden, Homburg, or the grease murs. There, bowever, is the damaging fact as things afe. We have not yet got a penny back Probably we never shall Whatever the full
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of the tens of millions lost and stolen be over recovered. At no time in ear history have war stealings been refunded, and such an event is less likely to happen now than ever. Did not the Prime Minister's grandfather make nigh half-a-million in six months in India two generations ago, by Army contracts, founding
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War is both external and internal; and it is in the external part of this horrid affair that the so-called civilisod world is most interested.
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