DEATH OF "DR. JIM"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 55, 28 November 1917, Page 5

DEATH OF "DR. JIM"

ECHO OP THE JAMESON It AID. , London, November 26. Sir Starr Jameson is dead; aged 64. [The Right Hon. Sir Leaiider Starr Jameson, president of the British South African Company, ex-M.P. for Capo Town, (Harbour Division), and Premier of Cape Colony from 1904 to 1908, is best known to fame as the leader of the famous "Jameson Raid" at the end of December, 1895, one of. the most important incidents preliminary to the great Boer War. This raid was an attompt on the part of the lato Mr. Cecil Rhodcß, then Premier of Cape Colony, and Dr. Jameson, to intervene by force of arms between the Uitlanders, i.e., ;forcign residents) in the Transvaal and President Krugcr, from whom the Uitlanders had been unable by any moderato means to secure the legal and civic rights to which they believed they were entitled. According to the plan drawn up, Dr. Jameson was to gathel: a force of SOO men on the Transvaal border, and this force was to co-operato with the Uitlanders if further negotiations failed. Jameson was able to secure only 500 men, and armed thenY with great difficulty; and ho finally moved off, very ill-advisedly, in spite of direct messages from tho Uitlauder leaders in Johannesburg that he was not to do so, as their co-oper-ation had heroine impossible. Jamieson's force was surrounded by the Boers at Doornkop on January 2 and forced to surrender. The Kaiser seized the opportunity to send the famous telegram congratulating Kruger upon having repelled the raiders "without appealing to the help of friendly Powers." The raid liad the unfortunate effect of supplying Kruger's Government with a powerful argument in its favour as the aggrieved party in the war.]