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This arrangement, together with the promise of the redress of grievances, had been made known to the deputation of the Reform Committee by the Government Commission in Pretoria, as has already been stated the Government well knowing that Johannesburg was in arms and a party to the arrangement with Dr. Jameson. Dr. Jameson surrendered at 9.30 a.m. on Thursday.
The Afrikaner Bond leaders would have preferred the war to have been deferred a little longer preferably to a moment when England might be embroiled elsewhere. It was also thought of importance that the Transvaal should first realize the auriferous "underground rights" situated around the Johannesburg mines, which Government asset was expected to net at least fifty million pounds sterling.
Shortly afterward he gained a deep insight into matters journalistic by being the boon companion of a newspaper man. The newspaper man was in jail on a charge of larceny; King for murder. When war was begun King was employed on a Johannesburg mine, and when his best friend determined to join the British forces he decided to enlist in the Boer army.
The British army, leaving Bloemfontein on the 2nd of May, was on the 12th at Kroonstad, over 100 miles distant. On the 24th the Vaal was crossed, and on the 31st Roberts entered Johannesburg. Five days later, on the 5th of June, the British flag was hoisted in Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, 250 miles from Bloemfontein.
And at last the ambulance had jogged into Kroonstad, only to find that no help lay in the hospital there, that the journey must be dragged onward through a night ride to Johannesburg. If the jolting, crawling ambulance had been bad, the jarring train was infinitely worse.
At Johannesburg, he had manufactured an excuse for a long letter to Ethel who "Show a leg there!" The sergeant's voice at his ear called him back to the realities of life. He sat up as alertly as if he had slept upon eider-down. By eight o'clock, Weldon was out on the veldt, two miles from camp.
There was a story in circulation about a respectable refugee from Johannesburg who, irritated by the fallacies that passed for facts in regard to Boer armaments and resources, always made it a point to speak the truth on the subject. He was an Englishman, quite loyal, and stimulated by a glass of beer was one evening in his boarding house unfolding the facts of the case.
I suppose your father and mother have both come down with you?" "My mother has come down, sir, but my father thought that he ought to remain behind to look after the mines." "Have you come here to enlist?" "Not exactly, sir, and yet I have to a certain extent;" and he told the officer of the little corps that had been formed among his companions at Johannesburg. "A very good idea.
G. Rouliot, E. Birkenruth, A. Brakhan, J.M. Pierce, H.F.E. Pistorius Johannesburg. After such investigation as the restrictions imposed have permitted, we are of opinion that it would be quite useless to approach the Uitlander population with the Government proposal in its present form, chiefly for the following reasons: No consideration is given to the term of residence already completed.
A Dutch minister writes to Captain SNOWDEN, O.C. of Boer Camp, Johannesburg: 'Sir, I am directed by the Committee of the Dutch Reformed Churches here to convey to you the appreciation of the Committee for the kindly interest and sympathy shown by you to the women and children under your charge.
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