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African League have been at work since the beginning of last year, both in England and the colonies, financed by the group of financiers who will be the only gainers by the war. The British South African Association, composed of South African investors and politicians committed to a general policy of aggressive imperialism, has faithfully followed the instructions of the League, and has co-operated with the South African Vigilance Committee (the League under another name) for the object of fanning the war-flame and securing the complete subjugation of the Dutch. These particularist bodies have used the Unionist organization in this country just as the South African organs in the press, controlled by the same men, have worked through the Unionist press, assisted by the sham-Liberal Daily News. It has been necessary to set forth these details in order to show how the fabrication of public opinion is possible and has been achieved. The acme of audacity is reached when the very men, the mine-owners and speculators, who have assessed the gains of war at several million pounds per annum, put forward themselves and their professional representatives as the impartial instructors and advisers of the British public on its policy of war and