The South-African crisis - pagina 36

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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

would be pure

folly.

CRISIS.

Already Dr. Jameson was pre-

paring his raid at Mafeking under the protection of the Minister of the Cape, and in 1895 he carried out

Mr. Chamberlain has never been able

his operations.

clear

to

villainy.

himself of a

complicity

certain

i)

in this

Although the Boers soon took satisfaction of

and the German Emperor issued his famous dispatch, and the whole world rang with praises

their invaders,

the clemency of the Boers towards their captured

of

enemies, President Kruger was too experienced a

not to

millions unpaid

short

a

the fate of the Transvaal was decided

feel that

by the Jingoes

man

in

London. With the indemnity of two

the guilty parties set at liberty after

;

Rhodes retained

detention;

as a

member

of

the Privy Council; the Parliamentary enquiry suddenly

stopped at the

have

to

that

been

moment when produced

a plot was

abandoned. farseeing

And

—

decisive evidence ought all

this

being hatched

that

no doubt

would not be

while on his part Mr. Kruger, as a

began

statesman,

to

augment

to provide munitions of all kinds, 17^11

left

his artillery,

and concluded March

1897 the treaty of alliance with the Free State,

Mr. Chamberlain on criminal

his part deliberately

negotiations

which

have

opened the

resulted

in

the

present war.

was sincere when on Oct. 18^^^ he declared in the Lower House that he had not sought the war. The threat of war was no doubt enough for him; if Mr. Kruger had allowed himself I

^)

believe

that

he

See the despatches i^uhlished in

I' I

ndependance Be/ge

of Jan.

6h

1900.

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