Meanwhile disgust and indignation have been caused by a Boer threat, conveyed through the Boer organ in London, the Standard and Diggers' News, that in the event of trouble all the mining works on the Rand would he destroyed by dynamite. The object of the threat was of course to frighten the capitalists of the Rand and induce them to use their influence in favour of modification of the British demands but it has had no such effect. Even if the Boers were foulish enough to take step which would ruin their own prosperity, the Outlanders of the Rand, practically un= armed though they are, would be able to prevent it. The thront'is about as reasonable as the recent suggestion that in the event of war the British Outlanders would be compelled to fight for the Transvaal against their own country. The little difficulty in the way of that scheme is that it would necessitate arming the Outlanders, and that is the last thing President Kriger would be inclined to do at such a crisis.
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