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the whole affair, but he also insists
that Chamberlain knew about and
counte1anced all that was going on A
number of cablegrams supposed to have
| passed between Rhodes and an agent in
England are reproduced, and these very
clearly iInplicate Mr.. Chamberlain. The
story OF DR.. Jameson's capture is very
brief.
Meantime, DR.. Jameson had advanc-
ed with the great rapidity in the direc-
ton of Johannesburg. The High Com
missioner issued a proclamation call
ing upon DR.. Jameson and all his COM
panions to withdraw across the frontier
(thls proclamation was shortly fol-
lowed by Cecil Rhodes resignation of
the premiership of Cape Colony. The
proclamation together with a letter
from Sir Jacobus De Wet, the British
agent at Pretoria, was carried to Dr.
Jameson by Ben Rouwer. a TransvaaI
burgher. DR.. Jameson, however took
not the slightest notice of it, Lieut.
Eloff, of the Hreugersdorp police, who
rode out to meet him and to charge
him to turn, back, was taken prisoner
by his orders. A number of Trans
vaal burghers, however, under Com
mandants Halan, Potgieter and Cron-
Je, had outstripped Jameson and taken
up their stand on the hills near Kreu-
fire of his guns on the burgher's po-
sition, but, as soon as his troops at
tempted to charge, they were driven
back with loss. When DIR. Jameson
saw that he could not get through, he
faced about to the right, in order to
try to turn the Boer position. He was
stopped, however, during the night by
Field Cornet ID. Fouche and the next
morning, when he moved still further
TO- he .set.k ~
je's burghers at Doornkop, who COM
PEELED him to surrender after a short
engagement"
Very little more is said of the trial
ut is not necessary to enter into de-
tails concerning the trial of the con-
spirators. The government applied to
the Orange Free State to allow Judge
Cregorowski to preside over the trial,
the object of the request, which was
readily granted, was to obtain a Judge
who was outside the quarrel and who
could not be regarded as in any way
prejudiced against the Reformers.
Most of them escaped with imprison-
ment or fines; only the four leaders,
Messrs. Lionel Phillips. Parrar, Ham
mond and Col. Rhodes, were con-
demned to death, but this sentence
was oommuted by the Executive Raad
to a fine of $4,000 pounds. Thus end
the last act has just been finished on
the blood-stained plants Of South At
RIGA"
IT will be remembered that one of
these chief conspirators was the mil
lionaire American engineer, John Hays
Hammond.
AS to the political result, Mr.. Kruger
goes on to say: "And so the attempt
upon the independence Of the republic
failed. But now Mr.. Chamberlain was
TO set to work to try whether he could
not be more successful. With hi( as
sistance Jamesons raid was to be re-
placed by a gigantic British raid.
His first step was to invite me to
come to England to confer on Trans
vaal matters. While he began by de-
claring that he was not prepared to
discuss Article four OF the London Con-
vention, the only article which still
in any way restricted the foreign re-
lations Of the South African republic.
One would really think, to judge from
this convention. that IL was the re-
public, and not England, that has TO
make amends.
at the same time Mr.. Chamberlain
sent of another dispatch, in which
he proposed that a sort OF home rule
should be granted 20 johannesburg,
and he published this dispatch In the
London official press before / received
IL. When one reflects that II was the
very question 81 home rule for Ireland
that caused Mr.. Chamberlain 20 with
drew from Ciadstone's party and bar-
Der bis radicalism for his present ta-
ROism. one must stand aetonnded 81
the eiffontery ~ his proposal, especial
~ under the existing circumstance"