THE JAMESON RAID.

Evening Post, Volume LI, Issue 105, 4 May 1896, Page 2

THE JAMESON RAID.

«. FRENCH SELF-INTEREST PLEADS FOR THE UITLANDEHS. ( PBKSS ASSOCIATION.] Paris, Ist May. Several Parisian newspapers fear that if the sentence of exile passed in the Transvaal on the members of the Reform Committee is carried into execution, such a step will result in damage to the Rand, and that tbe places of those exiled will be taken by Germans, which may injure tbe French bondholders. They, therefore, urge that M. Hanotanx, the Foreign Minister in the new Meline Ministry, shonld advißO President Kruger to commute that portion of the sentenoos. Pbetobia, 2nd May. The interdict proclaimed over the Reformers' property is to bo removed, except in regard to Leonard and Woolf. The Hollanders and Doppers obstruct the measures taken for lenient sentences. LORD LOCH'S DEFENCE. | (Received May 4,11 a m.) London, 3rd May. In the Houhb of Lords, Baron Loch, exGovernor of Capo Colony, explaining a statement by tha Pretoria correspondent of the Paris newspaper Le Temps, said the residents of Johannesburg urgently requested him to visit the town, pleading tho grievances they were suffering from. President Kruger, be adds, dissuaded him from doing bo, fearing that the Governor's presence might lead to an outbreak. He, however, reoeived a deputation at Pretoria, to which he pointed out the futility of attempting a rising with only 1000 rifles to depend on. He did not offer to assist them, and the statement in Le Temps to the effect that he did waß wholly unfounded. The newspapers, commenting on the explanation, admit that Lord Loch's statement is perfectly correct. A THREAT TO THE CHARTERED COMPANY. ANTAGONISM IN THE ORANGE FREE STATE. Capbt SWN, 2nd May. In the Volksraad of the Orange Free State, a motion strongly adverse to the Chartered Company waß formally tabled. It declared that the Company had forfeited its right to be longer treated as a civilised government, and that Cecil Rhodes aimed to be a Dictator, with whioh objeot he was organising additional troops in Matabeleland. The President of tho Chamber ruled the motion ont of order, but, in doing so, declared that the time had oome wben it waß necessary that the Orange Free State should abrogate all treaties with the Chartered Company.