The Transvaal Crisis.
(Per Press Association.) London, May 29. Mr G. Seymour Foot, formerly private secretary to Lord Loch when Governor of Cape Colony, asserts Mr Cecil Rhodes supported the raid aa he had positive knowledge that President Kruger was arranging for an auti-English alliance. Pretoria, May 31. A petition is being got up asking that the leaders and all reformers should be released upon payment of fines. President Kruger, replying to Barnato, said he was doing his utmost to obtain a mitigation of the sentence, and he would pursue a righteous course. Mr Phillips, of fche Reform Committee, denies the existeooo of a letter alleged to have been written by him suggesting the bribery of the Judge. Capetown, May 31. Three thousand women of Johannesberg have signed a petition for the release of the prisoners.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 279, 1 June 1896, Page 2
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136The Transvaal Crisis. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 279, 1 June 1896, Page 2
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