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Show BOERS WORKING ON BASUTOS. ; Trying to Alienate Chiefs From British Brit-ish Allegiance. ' London, Jan. 7. The Times publishes" pub-lishes" the following dispatch" from Lourenso Marquez: " "'I learn' ion unimpeachable authority 4 .. .. ) that the Free Staters are actively sowing sow-ing dissafection among the Basutos. It is believed that some of the minor chiefs have received their advances not unfavorably. A Basuto interpreter to the Free State, but recently took the son of a Basuto chief to Pretoria to show htm the British prisoners there as proof of the Boer victories. It is believed, however, that with Chiefs Jonathan and Lerothodi, loyal and even desirous of attacking the Boers, these intrigues will not result seriously. serious-ly. , "Although the Boer agents and their i foreign satellites have done little dur-i dur-i ing the past week in securing supplies for the Transvaal they are still very i active, the centre of the whole machinery ma-chinery being Consul Pott, M"ho besides be-sides holding the agencies of various j steamship lines is the manager of the' Empress Afrieana Landing company which is'tha leading landing agency here. He is, therefore, able to facilitate facili-tate the discharge of cargoes intended for the Transvaal. There is reason to believe that the controlling interest in the Empress Afrieana Landing company. com-pany. iS held llV thn TW.ol.1 rV....:. o . - - . ""imiu, iui rie Co Stein & Morrison and Charles Hutohms, of Natal. Similarly the : local agency of the Sheba gold mine is in the hands of a German firm notorious notori-ous for persistent efforts to render services to the Transvaal. "Some local British banks also as-! sist this business of forwarding agents by the acceptance of Boer drafts'" for collection and by issuing the recently minted Transvaal coinage. This fs important presumptive evidence that the Boers are securing an imnoi-tanf quid pro quo. Already m-oo1 to the value of some 15,000 has been exported ex-ported by the Boer republics by May of Delagoa bay." |