RACIAL ELEMENTS IN AFRICA

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 134, 7 June 1906, Page 5

RACIAL ELEMENTS IN AFRICA

THE TRANSVAAL CONSTITUTION. GOVERNMENTS ALLEGED INACTION. [rnEilS ADSOCIiTION.I PAPETOWN, 6th June. Sir J. West Ridgway, Chairman of the British Enquiry Commission, before leaving Johannesburg for Bloemfontein, > stated that the committee was very satisfied with the progress that had been made towards framing a constitution satisfactory to all parties. Sir J. P. Fitzpatrick, representing the British party, declares that the committee failed to reconcile the discordant racial elements on a basis of mutual concessions. All the Boer proposals were calculated to give them a majority and undermine British supremacy. The Imperial Government's inaction has, ho said, caused harcl times, distress, and starvation, and further delay will intensify the exodus of British residents. Tho result will bo almost certain to bo a Boer majority, and the British will bo once again with their backs to tho wall fighting for thoir rights. Sir J. P. Fitzpatrick advocates an appeal to tho colonies, whoso feople had shed their blood in South Africa, and to the national feeling in England, to provent the loss of all the fruits of their sacrifices.