THE TRANSVAAL.
GENERAL JOUBERT'S PLAN,
Press, Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PRETORIA, June 19.
The burghers ''at Pietermaritzburg have endorsed President Kruger's proposals for -the Uitla-nders' franchise.
LONDON, June 19.
The Daily Mail states that trade at Johannesburg is stagnant, that there is a shortage of labour for the mines, that hundreds of natives are leaving daily, and that 2000 women and children left in five days.
LONDON, June 20. (Received June 21, at 0.35 a.m.)
The St. James's Gazette has published General Joubert's plan of campaign in the event of War against the Transvaal. The Boer sympathisers and agents are to destroy the Gape to Bulawayo railway, and Kimberley will be raided and the De Beers linines destroyed. Captain Jouberfc expects to master Capetown in a fortnight.-' The Port Elizabeth-Pretoria railway will be destroyed south of Bloemfontein.
Mr J. B. Robinson, a well-known South African mine-owner, interviewed in London, said the theory was unfounded that the Afrikanders and Dutch were neutral in the present trouble, [? 'or that] any war would be restricted to the Transvaal. Mr Robinson cabled to President Krager strongly appealing to him to meet Sir Alfred Milner's views.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11455, 21 June 1899, Page 5
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189THE TRANSVAAL. Otago Daily Times, Issue 11455, 21 June 1899, Page 5
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