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Show GREED OF ENGLAND ATTACKED. IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. London, Aug. 2. The Daily Telegraph, on the authority of its Cape Town correspondent, corres-pondent, asserts today that documents of the highest importance emanating from England have been discovered in Pretoria, implicating members of the house of commons com-mons and other prominent persons in England En-gland who have agitated in favor of the' Bcer3. It says that startling developments may be expected shortly. A correspondent with General Hunter's force at Siapkranz says: "The Winbure and Senekal commandoes are now arriving, about 600 men. General Koux has arrived and also the commandant command-ant of the Emp Wepner commando. It will take days to get all in. There Is a continuous stream of wagons for seven miles up the valley road. All the leaders have surrendered. The prisoners include foreign artillerists." The Boers have evacuated Machadodorp, and, it is reported, are preparing to retreat re-treat to Lydenburg. to which place they have completed telegraphic communication. communica-tion. Lord Roberts has telegraphed to the war office as follows: "Pretoria, Aug. 1. Hunter reports 1,200 more prisoners surrendered yesterday, with Commandants Rouse and Fontenel, whilst Commandants Deploy, fotgieter and Joubert surrendered to Bruce Hamilton, Hamil-ton, who collected 1,200 rifles, 650 ponies and an Armstrong gun. Lieutenant Anderson, An-derson, a Danish officer in the Staats artillery, ar-tillery, also surrendered. Oliver, with five guns and a number of Burghers, broke away in the Harrismith district, but Hunter Hun-ter expects the total prisoners will total 4,000. "An unfortunate accident. occurred near Frederickstadt on the Krugersdorp-Pot-cheftroom railway. The enemy had torn up raiis and a supply train escorted by the Shropshires was derailed, thirteen being be-ing killed, thirty-nine injured, although a special patrol had been ordered to prevent trains passing. A special inquiry has been ordered to ascertain why the order was disobeyed." Rudyard Kipling, testifying before the South African hospital inquiry today, said he found little fault generally, except ex-cept with the Woodstock hospital at Cape Town, which, he said, was unspeakable. It was horribly foul and drains ran to it. During the debate in the house of commons com-mons todav on the bill for a supplemental war loan of 8,500,000, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, liberal, said that owing to the existence of three fragmentary budgets he was unable to conclude at what the government ngureci tne cost oi tne war. He estimated thru it would be nearer S0,-OuO.OOO S0,-OuO.OOO than 60,0,X),0C0. Sir William added that statesmen-of the highest authority were imressing upon the British the fact that thsy were the best hated people in the world. Lord Salisbury could not understand the reason, rea-son, but Lord Rosebery knew the cause of this hatred. Lord Rosebery had declared de-clared that the empire needed peace. The last twenty years Great Britain had. been laying hands with almost frantic eagerness on every desirable tract of territory ter-ritory adjacent to its own. This ETeed excited envy and stood in the way of domestic do-mestic reforms. The chancellor of the exchequer. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in reply, said the figures were complicated, but he would make a return showing how they had been reached. |