From a Newt Book. AFTER JAMESON’S RAID

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 103, 25 January 1935, Page 9

From a Newt Book. AFTER JAMESON’S RAID

On New Year’s morning the situation at home was at its worst. Not only was the issue on the veldt unknown and cable communication blocked. Harris had fabricated a date, December ‘2B, for the “women and children” letter, and cabled it to “The Times.” where it appeared on January 1. Amid excited bewilderment the letter caine as a masterpiece of cynical trickery in its effect on British sentimentalism. There was a wide revulsion in Jameson’s favour. He was no raider, but a chevalier: no filibuster, but a paladin. He was cheered in tbe music halls, and Jingo sheets with large captions denounced the Colonial Secretary for blundering weakness and truckling to Kruger, leaving “unarmed England at the mercy of the Boers." Sober organs declared that if Jameson failed it would be because Chamberlain had made himself the saviour of rhe Boer oligarchy. Not wavering a hair’s breadth he directed the High Commission to telegraph to editors of newspapers throughout South Africa asking them to spread the proclamation and to enforce tils appeal. It was an instruction as terse and imperative as any .Minister ever wrote. —The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, by J. L. Garvia,