The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30
TERMS RHODES
 THE CURSE OF
 SOUTH AFRICA President Kruger Writes Inter- eSting Memoirs of Trans
 vaaI and Its People
SCORES JOE CHAMBERLAIN
Says He Was Undoubtedly the Accom- pIice of Cecil Rhodes In the lame son Raid-Turned Country
 Into a Wilderness.

London October 29.-It Is expected that a second installment of extracts from the Kruger Memoirs'' will be published today. striking feature of the me moirs, 1t is understood is a revalation of the jealousies which existed before the war between the inhabitants of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State and the Cape Colony Boers. MT. Kruger takes pains to prove that he did his ut most to smooth matters over and prevent the war, but the Boers' inborn antipathy to foreign interference proved to be too strong for him.
 Mir. Kruger closes his memoirs with these words:
 sake his people, even though 1t often ap- pears so. and acquiesce in the will of the Lord, knowing He will not allow an afflicted people to perish. The Lord hath all hearts in his hands and He turneth whithersoever he will.'
 The memoirs are but a sketchy collec- tion of past events with MT. Kruger's comments thereon. The installment of the memoirs published by the Times this
 
 concerning Mir. Kruger's opinion of va- rious men prominent in South African history. The ex-presdent was once in- yited to meet Sir Bartle Frers. He re- piled he would be quite willing to do so if he were told which Frere it was He declared he knew four Freres and each contained this remark by describing dif- ferent aspects of Sir Bartle Frere's char acter as presented by blue books saying some of his characteristics were friend ly, while others were inimcal to the Boers.
 Rhodes Afrlca's Curse.
 MT. Kruger describes the '.JesuiticaI Cecil Rhodes as the curse ofzSouth Af- rica." He says
 NO matter how base or contemptible, be 1t lying, bribery or treachery, all and every means were welcome to him"
 Lord Milner. he describes as "a typical judge. autocratic beyond endurance
 MT. Kruger declares that Colonial Sec retary Chamberlain was undoubtedly the the late Cecil Rhodes accomplice in the Jameson raid. and that MT. Chamber lain appointed Lord Milner, British high commissioner of South Africa with the direct intention of driving matters to ex- tremes. This tool of Mir. Chamberlain s." says Mr. Kruger, "carried out his mission faithfully and turned South Africa into a wilderness"
 British policy in general, the former president of the Transvaal sums up in the following sentences:
 Lies, treachery, intrigues and secret investigations against the governments Of the republics, have always been the dis tinguishing marks of English politics"
 Cloak for Design.
 MT. Kruger declares that the Transvaal National union was under Cecil Rhodes paramount influence from it's very incep- ton and describes it as having, from the very outset, used the demand for the franchise as a cloak for designs against the republic. He describes how, after the Jameson raid. when the republic was practically defenseless. he became con- vinced of the necessity of preparing for war and gradually accumulated war ma terials. This was especially the case af- ter the British parliamentary inquiry into the raid. which, MT. Kruger says, showed MT. Chamberlain's complicity. Mir. Kru- ger contends that his institution of re- forms in 1899 probably startled MT. Cham berlain and impelled Great Britain to hurry on the crisis for fear of losing a pretext for war
 The author of the memories asserts that the signatures to the petitions of British subjects in the Transvaal against the so-called grievances were obtained by the greatest fraud and describes how the franchise remained the question at issue until, writes MT Kruger. fin spite of all concessions. all patience and the Indulgence of the republic were brought out"
 MT. Kruger says that enormous de- mands were then made upon his indus try; all persons came to him for direc- tions. advice or comfort. There was not a night during which he slept undisturbed and when the burghers grew discouraged, he himself went to the commanders to restore the confidence of the combat ants.
 The former president writs that he looked upon the war not so much as an