The herald., 1896-01-02

| and the danger increases ev ry day it is
withheld. In ape Colony, and we believe
| IN the Orange Free State also, sympathy is
| felt for Uillanders. The latter cannot now
recede, and their only danger is from them
seves.n
The article bitterly attacks the mining
mil iouare, j. b. Robin son, and says: !:
| Al the supreme moment. when the last
chance of peacefully obtaining their just
rgnis h .ngs in the balance. and when the
split between capital and labor is one thing
that may enable President Krueger to con-
tirue swapping his fingers at the vi lAnders'
claims. Mr.. Robinson loyalty assisted to
foster the spirit"
DUTCH OPINION.
LONDON, Jan. IA dispatch from The
Hague to the Times says that the Rotter-
damsch Coura I regards DR.. Jamison's &C.
ton in the Transvaal as a most fragrant
example of British arrogauc 1t admits
that Holland can do nothing for the Boers,
and fears that England will seize the op-
portunity to wipe out the stain of the Ma
jubahil incident. IL also expresses the
hope that Germany will come to the res
cue.
The Berlin correspondent of the Times
says:
"rhe cri-is is clearly endanRerinQ the
Anglo-Germau relations. Public opinion
Is excited and angry. and without doubt
the government will interfere before rela-
tions have gradually arisen between the
Transvaal and Germany which assumed,
in the public mind, almost the shape of
moral protectorate by Germany over the
Transvaal."
JAMIsoN CENsURED
LONDON, Jan. 1.-The Times in an ed
itorial thinks the colonial secretary's,
Chsmberlain's, censure of DR.. Jamison for
,f he Tray, al in 10 q h
sence of the man who uudeniably rendered
great and distinguished service to his
country, 10 somewhat precipltate.
The Belfast Evening Telegraph pub
fishes a private letter from Buluwayo,
South Africa, dated November LIST, stating
that there was talk there, even at that
time, of the glsh seizins the Transvaal,
and that the chartered South Afr can COM
pany's troops had gone sou b for that pur-
pose. under sec ct orders, with ten guns
and many wagons.
1t is reported that DR.. Jamison wrote to
Commandant M irrice, who cautioned him
to retire, as follows:
~ have informed you that I intend to
proceed with m, organized plan, which is
not hostile against the people OF the Trans
vaal. But we are here i'll reply to the invi-
tation of the principal residents of the
RaDd to assist them IN their demands for
Justice and the ordinary rights of every cit
izen of a civilized state"
1t appears from this letter that DR. Jam
ison Was not induced to take the extraor-
dinary step of invading friendly country
in time of peace by fear for the life of the
women and children in a native uprising,
bu in order to support political move
ment which is in the nature of q coustitu.
tonal agitation for a redress of grievance
w. p. Fraser, member of the execu-
tive council of the National Union, the
only member in London, discussing the
situatian in the Transvaal. said:
lhe most distinguished and influential
mining men in he Rand are Americans,
and they all feel that Africa is their home,
and are with the English in feeling the me-
cessity for better government and free
code of mining laws"
AN OFFICIAL INQUIRY
BERLIN, Jan. ihe Kolnische Zetung
states that Germany has addressed an off,
cial inquiry to England as to the steps the
English government intended to take to
restore the staiu quo in the Transvaal
WHO JAMIsON is
LONDON, Jan. l. DR.. Jamison, leader of
the party of British South Africa company,
now engaged. apparently. in an invasion OF
the Tran svaal, is the administrator for the
British South Africa company's territory
in Mashonaiand and Matabelet and. He is
the son of a Scotch journalist and was edu-
Gated for the medical profession In the
early '70s he went to the diamond fields
and soon acquitted high reputation and a
remuneralive practice. Later he was per-
suaded by Cecil Rhodes, premier of ape
Colony. to enter the service of the British
South Africa company.
When The British chartered company en-
gagged in it's little war against the unfortu-
nate King Lobengula of Metabeleland, Dr.
Jamison was the prime mover in all the
successful operations which first brought
out that war and eventually he practical
annex alton of that vast territory by Great
ritain.