The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-27
WHERE THE OK
CORES THE LION
Joseph Chamberlain Threat
ems Kruger.
ENGLAND'S SUPREMACY
IN SOUTH AFRICA HAS BEEN
ENDANGERED.
BoER RULE IS A fostering SORE
There Must be Reformation or England Will
Find Way to Secure i, Declares
The Colonial Secre-

Birmingham. Eng, June 26.-Joseph
Chamberlain. Secretary of State for the
Colonies. addressed the Unionists of
this city this evening. reviewing care
fully the Transvaal question. In the
course of his speech he said that, owing
to the enormous military preparations of
the Government of the South African
Republic. Great Britain had been com
PEELED to increase the British garrison
in Cape Colony and Natal. entailing an
additional expenditure of 100000 pounds
sterling annually.
Mr.. Chamberlain said the Govern
ment had tried to establish friendly
relations with President Kruger, but all
their advances had been received with
contempt.
After denouncing in the strongest
terms the attitude and actions of the
Beers. Mr.. Chamberlain. with great de-
liberation and emphasis, added:
''The Transvaal's enormous secret SER
vice fund has procured it friends and
advocates in every country. The way
the British subjects there are treated
is not only a menace to them, but inter
feres with our prestige among the ma
tives. who now regard the Beers and
not the British as the paramount power.
BESIDE the breaches of the London
Convention. the Transvaal is fagrantly
violating the equality that convention
was intended to secure. Its mis-gOvern-
ment is a fostering sore. poisoning the
whole atmosphere of South Africa. The
Dutch in Cape Colony and Natal would
be in the happiest condition, but so
long as the disease of hatred and sus-
picion prevails in the Transvaal. it is
impossible to stop the contagiOn.
-Four times since independence was
granted, we have been on the verge of
war with the Transvaal 1t is erro-
neous to say the British Government
wants war: but it is equally erroneous
to say that the Government will draw
back now that it has put its hand to
the pl0w.
1--WE hope the efforts that are now
being made will lead to an amicable ar
rangement, for Great Britain only de-
sires justice. but there comes a time
when patience can hardly be distinguish
ed from weakness and when moral pres
sure becomes farce. that cannot he
continued without loss of self-respect.
/ trust that time may never come in
THIS instance. DuI lie Ii does. bfltOnS VIII
insist upon finding the means to secure
a result essential to the peace of South
Africa"
QUEEN REVIEWS TROOPS.
London. June 26.-The Queen, the
Duke of Cambridge. the Prince of Wales
the Duke of York. Grand Duke Michae
of Russia. the Duke of Connaught, Gen
eral Lord Wolsely, Commander-in-C Chief
of the army, Colonel Samuel s. Sumner
q. s. A.. military attache of the United
States embassy at London, and many
Princes and Princesses were present on
the famous plains of AldershOt today e
witness a review of over $4,000 of the
best troops in the kingdom.
This review is interpreted in London
tonight as a means of satisfying Queen
Victoria that her troops are ready fol
any emergency they may be called upon
to meet, in the Transvaal or elsewhere
1t is known now that the Queen return
ed from Balmoral Castle, Scotland. most
ly for the purpose of attending this re
view, and. in view of the fact of hel