THE TRANSVAAL RAID ENQUIRY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9737, 27 May 1897, Page 5

THE TRANSVAAL RAID ENQUIRY.

EVIDENCE BY MISS SHAW,

Frew Aeectotton—By Telegraph—Copyright,

London, May 25. Mc Laboucbere b%s written a letter to the Transvaal Raid Enquiry Comjtnjffeie* i& con*. nection with tli(» scenes at-the recent sitting arising o«.&o£ charges made by him against Dr. Harris, and which lea to the Committee censuring Mt Labouchere. Hβ also withdraws the charges against Dr. Harris. May 26. At the Transvaal raid enquiry, Miss Flora Shaw, the head of 2he limes colonial departments, who recently visited Australia and South Africa as Special .Commissioner for that journal, stated that she had, in letters in Tlu Times, idly suggested that there would be historic. Justice in a rising of the residents of the Band ;on December 16tb, the day on which the Boers ia 1880 seized Heidelberg and proclaimed the South African Bβpttblic* The remark, she added, applied to a bloodless revolution, the idea being that' Jameson's force should remain on the Transvaal border, , and be ready to support Lord Eosmead if neccr-iry. She also admitted cabling to Mr fihodes that it would be dangerous to delay. This cablegram, she said, possibly implied that Mr Chamberlain concurred in the movement, but she did not* derive- her opinion from Mr Chamberlain. The Committee congratulated Miss Shaw upon her frankness.