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Title: War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Harding, William
Subjects: Boer War
Publisher: Chicago : Dominion Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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MARKET STREET IN SOUTH PRETORIA.
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LIEUT.-GEN. SIR GEORGE WHITE, COMMANDER OF BRITISH FORCES IN NATAL. THE BREWING OF TROUBLE. 185 order and protect life and property, and had asked the Governmentfor arms and ammunition, pledging itself not to take part in a revolu-tion or riot. It was expected that several of the leading mines wouldclose down immediately. In the course of an interview, President Kruger, at the time, ex-pressed regret at the agitation, and said: If the situation is aggravated, many disastrous consequences areto be feared, especially in mining and commercial enterprises. Thepresent attitude of the Outlanders does not conduce to calm consider-ation of their alleged grievances. The Government will give them anopportunity for such free speech on their grievances as does not inciteto rebellion, but the Government is fully prepared to stop any move-ment aiming at a disturbance of law and order. Professor James Bryce, M. P., author of The American Com-monwealth, who had at that time just returned to London fr

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