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interest in that oubjoct. "
387.
(I) Up to June 1899 in
fact the bulk of anti-Boor opinion case from Natal
and Cape province and fron Uitlandero in the
Transvaal.
(2)
By April 1899, Milner had decided that Britiah public
opinion runt be alerted in preparation for the trial of
strength with the Transvaal which lay ahead. Ito was
anxious to maxiniso the grievances of the Uitlandern
in the Transvaal, writing "What I vich particularly in
that all this miss of material which we are pouring into
you may not Co wholly unutiliced for the instruction
of the public... will you not publish a Blue Hook
and nee that the Edgar shootings and Jones trials,
amphitheatre meetings etc. etc* got rubbed into the
public rind. " (3) The farmouc "helots" telegram
describing the Uitlanders an f'.... thousandn of British
(1) Ibid. p. 301-2.
(a) Zoo letters in Chamberlain Zias, from South African
corronpondentn, alle ; ink; Door conopiracieo to take over
the whole of South Africaq under Dutch rule etc.
(3) Edgar was a I3ritich workman who tan killed by a Boer
policeman in 1898; he was said to be resisting arrest
and the policemen was acquitted. Public meetings of
Uitlnndero in Johannesburg were forbidden.