Arizona republican., 1904-11-11
Boers Leaving the TransvaaI::

When the South African war ended a large exodus of the Boer population was predicted, for it was said that many would seek new homes rather than live under the British flag. The exodus did not occur. Influential Boers advised that it was best to wait until it was seen what events would bring to the defeated people under the new regime. A few small parties of irreconcilables went to try their for tunes in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Java, but the movement was not i'm portant. nor have its results encour- aged others to follow these pioneers. for they are not thriving under un- accustomed conditions of climate and living
 The emigration movement seems, however, to have been only deferred. According to letters from the Trans vaal printed in the Hamburg Mach richten and other German and Dutch newspapers, the people of the former Boer republics are greatly dissatisfied. They voiced the prevailing feeling at their congress in Pretoria in May last, when they asserted that the British had not kept their promises concern ing schools, aid to impoverished far mers. taxation and local self-govern- ment.
 The impulse to leave the land of their fathers was rekindIed at this meeting. Many have left their lofty plateau, and many others are preparing to fol- low. Several small parties have this year started little settlements in Por- tuguese, East Africa, south of the zambezi. but their prospects of success are not bright, for they are already writing home that they like neither the climate, the sol nor Portugese meth ods of government.
 In July last fifty Boer farmers sailed for Tanga, the German port in East Africa, and with their farming imple- ments went inland on the railroad to TIorogwe. where they are now open ing small farms in the valleys among the Usambara mountains. Boer news | papers from the Transvaal say that 300 families Jare preparing to follow their example.
 If we may judge from the hearty approval given to the wild scheme of the well known Varend Vorster. enc of the weaIthler Boers, many of his companions are welcoming even wis ionary projects that promise to take them beyond the sphere of British rule. His plan is nothing less than | to form a new Boer state in German East Africa under the suzerainty of i the German government He called a meeting at Bronkhorstspruit on July 9. which was attended by hundreds of Boer farmers from all over the coun- 1 try Vorster declared that his plan had received the approval of the Ger man consul general at Cape Town. He believed it was possible to establish a Boer republic in German territory and to start it off with 6.OOO families from the TransvaaI and Orange river col onies.
 This impracticable scheme is worth mentioning only because it throws light upon the present mental atti-
 tude of the Boers toward their new rulers. The project is laughed alt in Germany. The idea of a Boer republic on German soil is declared to be ridicu-
 lous. and the project of settling 6.OOC
 white families from the lofty and tenn
 perate plateaus Of South Africa on the
 lower equatorial lands is called the
 purest nonsense. A considerable num-
 Der of Boers may thrive among the
 mountains of German East Africa, but the conditions are not favorable for wholesale immigration.
 The removal of large numbers of
 BOers to German Southwest Africa is