BOER CORRUPTION.
.. TheNeues Wiener Tagblatt (Vienna) publishes special information from a Brussels source exposing the alleged honesty and uprightness of the Boers, , which has been so much vaunted by anti-British journals. According to this piece of news a law suit is proceeding between the Transvaal | Legation at Brussels and the Belgian Transvaal Railway Company, in that city, concerning sums of money illegally given out by the company. The latter declare that the sums now claimed from them were disbursed for bribing the Transvaal Government at Pretoria. They give a list of all persons there bribed, among them twenty-two out of twenty-four members of the Transvaal Parliament at Pretoria, In this list figures Kruger's son-in-law Eloff, Generals Delarey, Botha, and also the Secretary-General of the Transvaal Legation, Boeschoten. Further names are reserved for the trial,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6701, 19 May 1900, Page 4
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134BOER CORRUPTION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6701, 19 May 1900, Page 4
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