The Raid on the Transvaal.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6079, 15 July 1897, Page 2

The Raid on the Transvaal.

j REPORT OP THE COMMISSION. ! CECIL RHODES STRONGLY >60NDEMNED. CHARTERED COMPANY'S OFFICIALS ACQUITTED. % COLONIAL OFFICE AND MR CHAMBERLAIN EXONERATED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyngfit.] [Per Press Association.!' London, July 14. ■ The report of the Transvaal Raid Enquiry Committee is published Jt admits the existence of great discontent at Johannesburg, but holds that ♦Mr Cecil ;Rhodes was not justified in subsidising, organising and stimulating an armed insurrection against the Transvaal and employing the foroes of'the South African Chartered Company to . c&rry' Sut such an insurrection. « . • The committee finds that Dr Jameson entered the Trafisvaal without? Mr Rhodes' dyect sSnction, his (Mr Rhodes) heavy responsibility remains, as he controlled great combination of imerehts, and usedjthem to support the revolution. Ee deceived thqpape). j his own Ministry at the Capb'fuitL the directors of ilio Chartored , Oojhiany, while he led his subordinates' to that his superiors approved his plans. The report acquits the majority,»f the Chartered Company's directors, but'Jiolds ttj.p.t Mr Mr Rhodes' went in Jiondon, was aw&re oi M/ 1 * 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. i

The committee 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 Commissioner in Bechuanaland, who during the inquiry admitted being aware of Dr. 1 Jameson's intentions a&d giving him assistance without informing Lord Bosmead, is censured. Mr Labouchere, in a minority report, regrets that the alleged complicity of the Colonial' Office was not probed to the botton. 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. Labouchere's report admits the Colonial Office officials were not aware the Bechuanaland grant was intended to be used for assisting Jameson's invasion.

The lingiuccrs' Strike,

IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

ce AVOIDED, a 2y Electric Telejrrapti -uopyrighfc, n l Per PreßS Association. I London, July 12. Ie 'i'be Eight Hon. E. J. Seddon. declares that if the legislation adopid ted by Now Zea'and bad been in h operation in Great Britain the engineers' strike would have been prevented. July 14. Forty engineering firms in London r- have looked out their employees who a belong to the Amalgamated Ent gineers. Five other firms conceded j tho demands of the men for an eight 0 hoars' day. : a A ividospread straggle between masters and men is commencing in the engineering establishments on the Tyne and Clyde. Seventy-five thousand members of j the Engineers Association have struck or been locked out in the different centres. 7 - i