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117 





.an Inqulrj. The |rliamen- 



for a year, and finally 



497. to !- r.'.i 



'an Republic by an armed force, 



tiion ..f i! 

 ' ..iiii^i!^ rt-iMirt t 



re the in.|.. 



>n league ami other 

 .41** | .art 



none v ami ann* 



MOT on the border for t h- 



. 



*d show.. I tiuit tin- design 

 (lair. Id* plead- 



was it 



HarriM, 



i the border. l-ut 



t.i thr turn tli 



i hit Tendon of the i-"ti\.-r-:iti.-ti. which was 

 that I'r Harris li;i>l offered to make a confHriit ml 



10 had at once stopped him and re- 

 vive any confidential Informal 



jtMKl, who had to do 



heae matters in th. '-towed 



th.it he was partly informal of tin- revolutionary 

 ^HfeSttiof thr('a|M- I'r, ; 

 h officer* 

 1 br Jameson ami K h. .!* into be- 



< iovrrnment was * 



tig the design <f <>\, r t) Pretoria 



nment and aim. Aim; th.- Trannraal. 

 cmmrtr.1 ..nVrr- P8N r. ! ind before - rs ._ 



>ffloe to restore th. junior officer* to 

 -ray, saying thnt hi- had guarantee*! 

 Won*, d.i. j - . : inf.iriiii' i i'\ !>r JWM ii 

 that the ei|iedition wan umlertaken with the knowl- 

 edge and aswrnt ;--nnl niith.-riii. v < 



' thnt it witH ju, Sir .I.-ht, 

 1. 11 the ooron> 

 B were people in Kiitflnml who 



-<e namea Mr. Klnxlee refused 

 ' cablegram*, believi 



|M-rha|>o ' 



hrone, he anl. after hi*) depart utv, hin (xxinwl. 



i the 

 committee exercise its p- 



rerious r^r Kihitl to Mr. rhamU-rla.. 



iirt wan alo awar 



was staled by one of the counsel 

 reasons of Mate that 



v Ijabotichrrr. after 



bcini:chAlloi)c.-.i u \ .-i lu-it ai -1 IT Harrfa lo 



nid waaaccmnpanied 

 >|ornti.ns in n 

 tocka by its pronotem withdrew his accusatioos 







the stock broken on whose evidence be re- 



... 1 :'.-. -i -,- '. ' ', 



mSSSTt '' ' . . . . 



noritr r*|-rt. The import of n,r cuatmita ex- 



..;-.,. , f \ ' : i: . j; 

 tltr further rxeeptlon ol 



to his absence In South Africa; but the com- 

 the board, in firing to Mr. 

 orney to do what be liked with- 

 out consulting hie colleague* and ^"mmfttinr to 



not fulf: 



found that graVe 



;-' - 



to promote 



.(..hann^biirg. but thal.vhatrirr ju- 



uders may hare ha<i for art ion. there was none 



r of the 

 h South >n|ny. and dinwtur of 



his position and those intereata to promote his 



an armed in*urm-tion against 



.. puJ.hr. and had employed the 



IM. 1 1.- serioosly emberressfd both the im- 



perial an-l colonial government n. and hb proceed- 



ureaion of a friendly state and 



the right 



thr 1 iiixi!.-.l th.- Traii-vaal without hb 



niithority. it uatt always a part . f t.- plan that 

 those forces should be used in the Trannraal in sup- 

 port of an iiiHirn-rtion. Such a | 

 lwrkr.1 u|..n iiu-vital'ly invnlTed Mr. 

 grare breaches of duty to those to whom be 

 U^nrM, II- .i.-.-ired th Bifi 

 I,.- com Mled h> rfc \> fr- ;.> :; aj .. i .:. 

 ial ministry and from thcb*r 



any. and led his 

 to believe that hb plans were approved by his so- 

 nt. The commit tee expressed in conclusion en 

 absolute and unqualified condemnation of tne raid 

 plan- *hirh n.a.l,- .t |^iM,-. There- 

 in 1 f>r the time being grate injury to Brit- 

 Mi ir Soul- 

 was shaken, race feeling embittered, and 

 difficulties wen- 



IMplomatir IM-putrv-In Oetober. 1885. the 



on the Vaal river to oversee go- 



nation of arms, although the j r 

 put fi>rward was that the Cat* railnd* were 

 damaging other railroads lea' fo Trans- 



vaal. Sir Jacobun 



.il. den.Miiu^l thb as an unfriendly a> 



trade from the (ape port*. V I' 



lienerai. 

 it a violation of the * 



m.nt pmtested on this 



J that if tK. excrp- 



dosing of the drift* 



a \ j-'l.-iti.-u . f !.. :.\' !.': 



ain tele- 





ET; 



graphed that the extension of the proclamation to 

 colonial foods was almost an ad of bostffiftT, and 



< ,;- 



wa. determined t.. obtain a compliance 

 with its demands, even if it should be necessary to 



