The South-African crisis - pagina 61

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THE SOUTH-AFEICAN

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CRISIS.

that the disagreement was only over a bare tenth of

the proposed terms

According to Mr. Chamberlain

i).

he wished to say "I accept", but he said

way

that everj^body understood

contrar3\

When

him

in such a

it

mean

to

quite the

he saw that Mr. Kruger, like everybody

was the dupe of his ambiguity, he did not protest but kept quiet: and knowing that the effect of this misapprehension would pi-ovoke the w^ar, he w^ent speechifying in the North of England to rouse the popular else,

So much for diplomRtic

Mr. Kruger.

passion against

veracity

As to the conduct of the war fact that the

the

done by both

is

I

pass over in silence

Red Cross has been sides,

fired on.

That

not of deliberate purpose, but

through the accident of fog and distance. At a range of

3,000

or 4,000 metres

it is

difficult

to distinguish

red Hag and the direction of

the

But there toria

is

bombs is uncertain. another matter. The Government of Pre-

have served the consuls with a formal complaint

Red Cross had been abused secure the safe conduct of an armoured train sent Dr. Kakebeeke has declared, repair the railway.

to

the

effect

an autograph

that the

letter,

that he had seen with his

to

to in

own

the Battle of Elands Laagte, English lancers

eyes

at

stab

several

thrown down

Boers

who

their

arms

lay -).

w^ounded

or

who had

Mr. P. R. Kock, adjudant

to the general of that name, published in the Statidard

made on that he found General Kock wounded in the

and Diggers News of Nov. oath, 1)

Acts of Parliament, p. 290.

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yieuwe Rollenlainsche Courant

4*^1

a declaration,

of Dec. 18th.

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