THE TRANSVAAL.
AN ALLEGED COUNTER-PETITION. THE DYNAMITE MONOPOLY. FRENCH COMMENT. ' United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 6. It is alleged that nine thousand Uifclanders in the Transvaal have signed a petition, expressing confidence in the Boers. Mr Chamberlain, in a despatch to the Transvaal Government with reference to the dynamite, monopoly, stated that tEe monopoly did not benefit the State, but only the concessionaire. It was also a breach of the 1884 Convention.' Mr F. W. Reitz, the Transvaal Secretary of State, replied', asserting that the Transvaal had the exclusive right to fix the conditions for the manufacture of dynamite, and that Great Britain was not justified in protesting. PARIS, May 6. The “ Journal des Debats’” condemns President Kruger’s strange obstinacy, and considers that Great Britain’s intervention under the circumstances would not be surprising.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11885, 8 May 1899, Page 5
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