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readers of the dost emotive events in African history* The
27th February issue in 1896 was headed, "This in the
anniversary of ißa Juba Bill.. " Similar reminders of "the
four hundredth birthday of the British Empire" were interspersed
with announcements about football' matches and the racing
season*
(1)
The Daily Mail -found an immediate occasion for its
talents in the aftermath of tha Jameson Raid in January 1896.
This wate the miscalculated result of a plot between the
leaders of-tho mine owning immigrants to the Transvaal
and Rhoden, intended to bring the Transvaal into the
Empire.
(2)
A riving in Johannesburg was to coincide
with an attack on the Transvaal by the British South
Africa Company police led by Dr. Leander Jameson* Chamberlain
who had become Colonial Secretary after the Conservative
victory in the General Election of 1895, also knew the
general linen of the plan, - in October he handed over
a strip of Bechuanaland territory to the Company,
- the
base of the Jameson Raid. In the event the Johannesburg
rising failed to materialine, but Jameson on 29th December
1895, led his troop into the Transvaal, was inevitably
C1) Dniiy Mail, 5th March 1896.
(2) For a detailed account of the Raid and Chanberlain'a
complicity aria, ". J. Van der Pool, The Jarionon Raid.
London 1951 Fnrlinh Itintorical
t& RR view. Vol LXV111,
Be Drug, "The question of complicity In the Jameson Raid. "