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Show HEDEN0UNCE3 ENGLAND. Yala Professor Attributes Present "vvrar to Greed. ' Professor Arthur M. Wheeler of Yala university sroke in denunciation of the attitude or" the British in South Africa toward the Boers in the lecture given Friday night in the South School hal!, Hartford, Conn. His subject was "England and tha Transvaal." He said: "Whatever be th. result of the present pres-ent contest, the British must lose in the end. Living' on islands and surrounded sur-rounded by an almost impassable wall, the English go through the world as if there were nobody else in existence. "Tho Dutch element was predominant predomi-nant when the English took possession of what is now Cape Colony. The Boers were forced back into the interior. They cultivated the soil and established institutions, in-stitutions, but the English came in and took the fruits of their labor. "One of the grievances of the English Eng-lish against the Boers is that the latter will not live under British rule, which is an unpardonable sin in England." Professor Wheeler sharply criticised the manner in which England obtained possession of the Kimberley diamond fields, and attributed all her interference interfer-ence in the Transvaal and Orange Frea State to greed and rapacity. Other claims made by the English, he declared, de-clared, were only excuses. |