The Raid on the Transvaal.
The report of the Transvaal Baid Enquiry Committee is published. It admits the existence of great diacontent at Johannesburg, but holds that Mr Cecil Rhodes was hot justified in subsidising, organising and -Jipjulating an armed insurrection against the Transvaal and. employing the forces of the South African Chart tered Company to carry out such an insurrection.
The committee finds that though Dr Jameson entered the Transvaal without Mr Rhode?' direct B&nption,
hif (Mr Rhodes) heavy responsibility remains, as he controlled the great combination of interests, and used them to sapport the revolution. He deceived Lord Kosmead (ex-Governor at tha Cape), bis own Ministry at the Cape and the directors of the Chartered Company, while he led his subordinates to believe that his superiors approved his plans. The report acquits the majority of the Chartered Company's directors. but holds that 'Mr Maguire, Mr Rhodes' agent in London, was aware of Mr Rhodes' views, while Mr Alfred Beit, who prominently shared in the negotiations, is exonerated from any guilty knowledge of the intended raid. Sir Graham Bower, the Imperial Secretary to the High Commissioner at the Cape, is strongly condemned.
The oommittee further .decided that' the Colonial Office officials received no information conveying any warning of the intended incursion. The committee fully accepts Mr Chamberlain's statement denying any knowledge of the affair, and exonerates the Colonial Office officials.
Mr F. J. Newton, Resident Com mtßßioner in Bechnanaland, who during the enquiry admitted being aware of Dr Jameson's intentions and giving him assistance withont informing Lord Rosmead, is cen flared.
Mr Labouchere, in a minority re* port, regrets that the alleged complicity of the Colonial Office was not probed to the bottom. He condemns the severity of the sentences passed upon the officers who took part with Dr Jameson in the invasion, and suggests that their commissions be restored.
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Manawatu Herald, 17 July 1897, Page 2
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311The Raid on the Transvaal. Manawatu Herald, 17 July 1897, Page 2
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