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NO CHANCE FOR INDEPENDENCE
Lord Salisbury Outlines Policy in
South Africa.

Lord Salisbury Outlines Policy in
South Africa.
LONDON, May 29.-Lord Salisbury, who
was entertained at dinner this evening
by the city of London Conservative asso-
citation, made an important announce
ment regarding the governments South
African policy
Inc stop the war party have used my
name, said the premier ''in support of
thelr Ideas, by stating that l promised
there should be no annexation of terri
tory annexation of gold fields. 1 never
gave a pledge. L never mean to give a
pledge. cloud cheersJ
stated simple historictl fact We
were accused Of going to war for lust of
gold and territory We went to war to
abate oppression of the queens subjects
III the IransVaal, and because our re
monstrances were met by an insulting
ultmatum, to which, if the queens gov
ernment had submitted, her power. not
only IN South Africa, but over her col
oLles ana dependencies would have been
at an END. We We're forced into war by
the action of our opponents.
10 say that, because we repudiated the
greed of territory, we therefore bound
ourselves never to annex any territory.
IS most ridiculous misconstruction. /
dwell on this point because this matter
OF annexation is about 10 become a burn
ing question.
we nave made tremendous sacrifice
OF plcod and of treasure in this conflict
There are misleading prophets. whoea
action bulks as large in the colnnns nF
the newspapers as the action of more
influential and powerful people, who mis-
Iead the unlucky rulers of the Transvaal
TO continue resistance far beyond the
time when all resistance has ceased to
be even possibly successful. These men
are perpetuaIly pressing US to make soma
conditions, TO offer some added stipula-
uo1s that shall leave shred of indie
pendence to the two republics Our only
certainty to prevent a recurrence of this
fearful war is to insure that never again
shall such vast Accommodations of arma-
ment occur and that no semblance of the
former independence of the republics
shall remain (Cheers.)
1--WE are not yet at the end of the war.
but l venture to lay it down as primary
condition of any future settlement that
precautions will be taken of such char
acter that such a war will never occur
again OF course, what measures will be
taken it is impossible at any moment to
determine, because that depends largely
upon the action and temper of those with
whom we have to deal.
l. Il have already intimated that their
resistance has gone beyond the limit to
which resistance could wisely go. 1t is
not for us to criticise their actions in
what they are pleased to call self-defense,
but they have acted SO that every bitter
ness created by the war and every sever
ance of classes and races have been stim-
ulated by every measure they have taken;
and so they go on.
II will also be our duty to protect those
natives who have been so sorely afflicted,
and at the same time to so conduct their
policy that so far as possible there shall
be a reconciliation and every one shall be
a happy member of the British empire
After the master of the rolls, Lord AL
verstone had proposed 1.-The Imperial
Forces" Lord Salisbury again rose, hold
ing paper in his hand, and said:
II find that Lord Roberts has occupied
Johannesburg.
This announcement was followed by
wild display Of enthusiasm, the company
cheering for "Bobs," and singing God
Save the Queen" Lord Salisbury later
in the evening, when proposing THE City
of London Conservative association" re-
ferred to "the glorious news received"
and said
cone thing we have learned from this
war is that everything depends upon the
general -