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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-
clatlon, 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 I promised
lhere should be no annexation of terri
tory, annexation of gold fields. 1 never
gave pledge. l never mean to give a
pledge. cloud cheersj
L stated simple historical fact We
were accused Of going to war for lust of
gold and territory We went to war to
aoate oppression of the queens subjects
IN the Transvaal, and because our re
monStrances were met by an insulting
ultlmatum, to which, if the queens gov
eminent had submitted, her power, not
only in South Africa, but over her col
onles and 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 TO become a burn
ing question.
we nave made tremendous sacrifice
VI plcou and OF treasure in this conflict.
mere are misleading prophets, whose
action bulks as large in the columns ef
the newspapers as the action of more
lhHuentlal and powerful people, who mis-
Iead the unlucky rulers Of the Transyaal
10 continue resistance far beyond tho
time when all resistance has ceased 10
be even possibly successful These men
TNnfI w
conditions, TO offer some added stipula-
tons that shall leave a 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.)
I'VE 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 d 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 60 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 slim
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
happy member of the British empire
After the master of the rolls, Lord AL
! verstone, had proposed The Imperial
Forces" Lord Salisbury again rose, hold
ing a paper in his hand, and said:
II find that Lord Roberts has occupied
Johannesburg"
This announcement was followed by a
wild display of enthusiasm, the company
cheering for 'Bobs,' and singing God
Save the Queen" Lord Salisbury later
in the evening, when proposing 1.-The City
of London Conservative association re-
ferred to 1.-THE glorious news received
and said:
Zone thing we have learned from this
war is that everything depends upon the
general"