London, 9th May.
Speaking in the House of Commons Mr. Chamberlain said that he agreed in con-dernning the policy indicated in the cipher telegrams, but that it was men like'Rhodes who made the Empire, and his proper place was in Africs, where he obold best atone for the past. It was impossible to think of war with the Transvaal for the purpose of remedying the grievances of the Uitlanders, and it was only conceivable in case of a deliberate breaking of the Convention. The Colonial Seceretary further said that the first object of British policy was to preserve their supremacy, which certainly had been threatened, and' the second to establish a interests, and he proposed when the pend-union between the British and the Dutch
ing trial is concluded thata Committee of both Houses be appointed to: examine the whole situation.
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