Show HAMMONDS LLNESS HAJDIONDS HE IS STILL IN A VERY CRITICAL CONDITION I I His Speech to the Committee Ha the Ring of True Americanism NEW YORK May 4A dispatch to II the World from Cape Town says John Hays Hammond is still very ill His I wife expects t become a mother very soon Samuel Lichtenstaeder a American who has just returned to New York from Johannesburg says The Johannesburg Johan-nesburg reforn committee met last j I Christmas day at Cecil Rhodes house Ito I-to receive instructions from him for I the movement against the Boers I was present Rhodes instructions I were that the reformers should I MARCH INTO JOHANNESBURG I under the British flag and when the I town was captured a triumph of British Brit-ish arms should be proclaimed The reading of the instructions was I I followed by a silence of some minutes I Then Hammond arose and said Not for all the wealth this land contains I not if you were to make me the absolute I abso-lute ruler would I have a hand in carrying car-rying out those instructions I can pull a trigger to shoot down an oppressor but I cannot and will not be a party to a revolutionary intrigue I I am going to take up arms under un-der any fag it will be the one that is flying today over the ocean under the I fying banner of a free people who believe in I revolution a a remedy for oppression but who hate with a Kaffirs hatred the rape of a free peoples territory Gentlemen you can count me out I The reformers nearly all of whom are Britains I WERE THUNDERSTRUCK After he had spoken they realized that Cecil Rhodes order must be Ceci Rhoes revised re-vised Jameson however refused to be called off He insisted on carrying out his part o the original programme of I conquest But when he invaded the Transvaal the Uitianders influenced I by Hammond gave him no aid and the raid failed miserably Rhodes and Jameson being Englishmen English-men are now enjoying the powerful protection of the British government whose agents they were while Hammond Ham-mond and the other Americans are made crimes to pay the penalty of the cithers I |