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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11508, 14 February 1903, Page 7

ME CHAMBERLAIN IN GAPE COLONY.

ADVICE TO THE DUTCH. DISLOYALTY DENOUNCED. SIGNIFICANT ABSENCE OB THE . PREMIER. United Press A»socia.tion—By EJeotrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 13th, 7.54 a.m.) CAPETOWN, February 12. In his Grahamstown speech Mr Chamberlain said that Britain'e late enemies were in process of becoming fast friends. The position of the Cape in the matter was not altogether satisfactory, but as a selfgoverning people, they had the remedy in their own hairils. It was unsatisfactory to find that the animosities dying out in the new colonies were being intensified in the Cape, which ought to lend a powerful influence in the movement. The cries of the Bond there sought things that he would not concede or ask others to give. Continuing, ho saiid he was not to be led away by tlie Bpurious pretensions of any section. If the Dutch would loyally accept the situation he would trust them, but lie would not if for one moment they professed to desire reconciliation and the next spoke of loyalty as of a crime, and talked of "forgiving" those who had been loyal to their King and country. If the rebels who might mislead them were ready to say, "Let there be a new chapter of peace and reconciliation," the Government would meet them half way, but there must be no persecuting or boycotting. He again appealed for union. Sir Gordon Sprigg was absent, being warned that his presence would cause trouble