SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.
Capetown,' Oot 27
Speaking at a banquet at Johannesburg, Sir Arthur Lawley announced uthe difficulty of supplying burghers with seed was overcome. He said out of forty thousand repatriated Boors none had returned to the concentration camps. Thirteen thousand cattle had been distributed and twenty thousand more would be distributed by December with tlie addition of nine thousand torses many mules and donkeys. ' Lord Milner stated the Government had no intention of plaaiug burdens on 'the Transvaal which would prevent or delay the progress oE the colony. . Government aimed at free trade throughout South Africa, ' • . ■ (Received Ocb 29 at 12.44 a.m) London, Oct 28, Stanley stated there were still 9,600 Boer prisoners unrepafcriafcad, chiefly in India and Ceylon.
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West Coast Times, Issue 12345, 29 October 1902, Page 2
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121SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS. West Coast Times, Issue 12345, 29 October 1902, Page 2
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