SOUTH AFRICA
BOTHA’S MESSAGE TO BRITAIN. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, February 14. (Received Febniary 15, at 8-30 a.m.) Ex-General Botha has sent a message to the British people in which he declares that British supremacy is safer in the hands of the Boers than of cosmopolitan capitalists. After the Vcrecnigmg Treaty of Peace King Edward was tho Boers’ King, and tlie British tlag the Boers’ flag. Tho Boers entertained no hostility to the mines, and to talk about wholesale repatriation of the Chinese was nonsense. Nothing would be done to embarrass the mines regarding unskilled. labor. He- was prepared to accept English ae the compulsory language.
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Evening Star, Issue 13047, 15 February 1907, Page 6
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108SOUTH AFRICA Evening Star, Issue 13047, 15 February 1907, Page 6
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