SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.
THE CHARTERED COMPANY STILL IN EVIDENCE.
BRITISH AGENT RESIGNED,
THE PRESIDENT SURPRISED AT THE DEFENCE.
London, May 12. Dr Leyds cabled to Sir Hercules Robinson and the Cape Government that he considered the Chartered Company endangered South Africa. He did not believe the statement that the Imperial Government was inclined to side with Mr Rhodes. It is reported that a section of the Chartered Company's shareholders intend to sue Mr Beit for damages for the invasion of the Transvaal. Jackson and AVhite, troopers, giving evidence at T)r Jameson's trial, denied that Mr Rhodes wired to advance into the Rand. Pketsria, May 12. Sir Jacobus de Wet, British Agent at Pretoria, has resigned. President Ivruger, in an interview, said he was astonished at the official defence Mr Rhodes set up. If he had been present in the Imperial Parliament on Friday he could easily have floored the speakers. The stories of intrigue with Germany were mere soap bubbles. It was impossible to defend the plot against the Transvaal, and there would be no rest for Africa till the men who. engineered it were severely punished. Herr Von Boeschoten, Under Secretary of State in the Transvaal, is purchasing large supplies of arms and heavy ordnance in Europe.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 16, 14 May 1896, Page 2
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208SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS. Hastings Standard, Issue 16, 14 May 1896, Page 2
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