THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION.
KRUGERIAN DUPLICITY.
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Pbetobia, August 5, Mr Krujjer's son, who was head of the Secret Service Department) on the eve of the Bloemfontein Conference, asked the' principal detective connected with . IheUand conspiracy case to do everything poßsible to implicate the BritisKGovernment iv the affair, so as to strengthen the President's hands. He promised the detective £200 and a good billet in his department! if he succeeded.
A Boer survey official hjis been dispatched to the western borders td study the country and take a note of the watering places in view of eventualities.
Capetown, August 5.. Mr Rhodes, in a speech in the Assembly, said he believed the Transvaal difficulty would be settled in two months without a shot being fired if Great Britain remained firm.
Mr Fisher, of the Orange Free State, is consulting with Mr Krugor and the Volksraad in secret session, relative to a' joint enquiry with regard to the franchise.
London, August 6. The first battalion of the Manchester regiment, stationed at Gibtaltar, lias been ordered to the Cape,~~
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8588, 7 August 1899, Page 2
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179THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8588, 7 August 1899, Page 2
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