MR CHAMBERLAIN'S TOUR
CABLE NEWS.
IHJS FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA.
United Pi6M Association—By £!«oiTk Telegraph—Copyrijht. (Received March 17th, 12.12 a.m.) LOXDOX, March 16. Mr Chamberlain assured his welcomes that he ramd tho situation in South Africa in a spirit of hopefulness, ai:d even confidence. He predicted that the progress would be slow, but he. was certain the war had demonstrated, by the oversea colonies" response, that the Briton abroad, though apparently absorbed in personal and local concerns, still retained a love of the Motherland and pride of Empire. The Dutch, lie .said, laid no claim to the Motherland outside South Africa. They knew little, and cared less, alwut the Empire. He hoped that in the near future the provincial feeling would yield to a wider conception of the national destiny, and that the Dutch would sliare with iw a sense of the responsibility of Imperial ink-rests and obligations. The King and Queen received Mr Chamberlain at Buckingham Palace yebterday.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11534, 17 March 1903, Page 5
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