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Mr. Cecil Rhodes has not attempted to hide the fact that he did his best
to stir up the uneasy feeling in Johannesburg that led to the Jameson
Raid.
He admits that he sent Dr. Jameson to the borders of the Transvaal with
orders to hold himself in readiness for an emergency.
He does not allow that he is responsible for the actual raid itself,
because Dr. Jameson acted without orders when making it.
He does not deny, however, that he hoped to overthrow the Boer Government,
and President Kr�ger.
One of the members of the committee asked him if he meant to make himself
President in the place of Oom Paul, but he denied that he had any such
idea.
He gave, as a final reason why the cause of the Uitlanders was a just
cause, that "no body of Englishmen will ever remain in any place for any
period, without insisting on their civil rights."
There is quite a sprinkling of Americans among the Uitlanders, but it is
to be hoped that they understand the duties of citizenship too well to be
among the discontents who demand its privileges without being willing to
undertake its penalties.
The Boer Parliament has, since the sitting of the committee in London,
refused the Uitlanders' last appeal for a voice in the government, and it
is thought that England will refuse to pay the money damages claimed by
the Republic.
It is thought that the result of the matter will be a war with the Boers,
in which England will struggle to overthrow the other South African
governments, and secure the control of the whole of that vast territory
for herself.
* * * * *
Matters in Greece are growing more serious. Much has happened within the
last few days.
On further consideration of the offers of the Powers, Greece refused home
rule for Crete, and declared her intention of carrying out her plan of
reunion with the island.
She boldly defied the Powers, and declared that she would yield only to
superior force.
In replying to the note from the Powers ordering her to withdraw her
troops from Crete, her Prime Minister, Delyannis, said that while Greece
would not leave Crete, there should be no fighting with the Turks unless
an attempt was made by them to carry the war into Greece itself. Unless
the Turks invade Greece, the Greek army would only remain in Crete to
protect the Christians there. If, however, the Powers made matters too
difficult for Greece in Crete, she would of course have to protect
herself.
This reply put Europe in a very difficult quandary. Greece says she is
ready to fight the whole of Europe rather than leave her brothers in
Crete in the power of the Turks.
The Powers, having threatened to make her obey if she refused to comply
with their wishes, are now aghast at the prospect of having to fight with
the heathen Turks against the Christian Greeks, or else steam back to
their respective countries, snubbed and ridiculous.
They have long been conferring together to prevent any further misrule in
Turkey, and to efface this monarchy, which is a disgrace to Europe, and
they find that, by their too hasty interference, they have put themselves
in the position of having to uphold the Turkish misrule against their own
convictions.
The Turks are so convinced that Europe is going to stand by them, that
large bodies of them are parading the streets of Canea, crying for the
blood of the Christian "dogs," as they call them, and apparently expecting
that the Powers are going to help them in a general massacre of the
Greeks.
This state of affairs is particularly dreadful, because, at the time of
the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks, not one of the European Powers
fired a shot to prevent it. All that was done was accomplished by talks
and conferences with the Ambassadors.
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