THE TRANSVAAL.
DEMAND FOR LEONARD'S EXTRADITION. THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. OPPRESSION OF THE UITLANDERS. REPRISALS FEARED. Press Association.—Rlectric Telegraph.— Pretoria, February 3. President Kruoer has requested the Spanish Government to arrest Charles Leonard, solicitor, one of the Transvaal fugitives, who escaped on the voyage from Cape Colony to England and landed at Tenerifle. Forty of Dr. Jameson's troopers have been landed at Port Elizabeth. The members of the Commission of Enquiry have left England. The Pall Mall Gazette states that the Boers are still closely investing the Rand, and preventing any influx of labour. German policemen molest the Uitlanders, and reprisals are feared. The Germans of the Orange Free State, in an address of thanks to the Kaiser, describe him as a " prince of peace." Capetown, February 4. The German police in Johannesburg are creating friction with the British. Ten residents have been assaulted and are unable to obtain redress.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10046, 5 February 1896, Page 5
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