| Show OOM OMM PAULS ANSWER WHAT THE BOER EULER HAS TO SAY TO JOUN JOHN DULL BULL tar transcript an script of the reply forwarded to mr C chamberlain Obtain obtained cli from transvaal val agent in Brussel 3 london sept 7 asir chamberlain remained at al the foreign office until lioi aly before midnight last night ite ho declined to make ra A statement regarding tile transvaal vaal situation but expressed ri a desire to lo sue aro a copy of the following 1 of oc the transvaal govern cavern 1 mells reply issued by the transvaal Trana vaal agent in Ei tonight alch was waa to liim him by tho the associated picas iless in reply to 0 o tin the last adli of the british government the transvaal government on saturday handed I 1 to 0 it the 11 0 british agent in a response ol of which the foll following oming Is tile the purport the gover government of the south african Ite publIc that ci ecat britann Is of the opinion that it la Is unable to lo accept the iho proposals mode made by the transvaal in tho the dispatches ut of august 1901 and august slat by which the terms tor for the franchise was vas fixed at five bears ears and t alo lie representation or of the dispatches was included tho the government i carrels this the moro more inasmuch inae much as it considered itself able to deduce from tho the negotiations previous to its formal proposals that the latter would id bo be accepted by the british government ern vou ment in these conditions ilia transvaal considers its pratte proposals 14 aia are arc annulled avid and fin finis landa Is it necessary nece nairy to 8 submit ab them to tile the irand and the ilia people it remains of tile the opinion that lia its proposals nrc are acly ay iy liberal and ton more ore extensive than those presented to tho the hi ilish high commissioner at bloom fontein font fon cin telli it la Is alno ot of opinion that mac the conditions attached to these pr proposals 0 lie ais are arc reasonable tho ho never desired cicat to abandon any lights pot possessed bv virtue of tho the london convention of 1994 nr av bv girtue oc international law tho the transvaal stilt still PIll that these declarations will lead to a good and a solution to the existing differences with regard to the que milon of 0 suzerainty the transvaal government gov earn refers to the tit dla patch of oc april 16 1858 and considers it 11 unnecessary to repeat that dim di nitch patch the reply then ihen proceeds to say bay government has already made kno knain n to tho the arent agent its objections to accepting the contained in the high com coll telegram of 0 suggesting the appointment or of dele gittes to draw up a report on the lat last electoral law voted by tho the it if tile the one shded examination ala t 1 0 n referred ret erred to in the last 1301 sh d t flacum 1 bhoj that aha t 1 tho h ex bating electoral law sham I 1 if an made d 0 more O re efficient effi ll clent the vaal 1 J A la is a pady to make it a aja V A file nish ull oil th five lon p 0 visible hut but lf Is of th tb lon that th r result suit of auch mi ail In N su so fur us an roi arca ard ardi a useful appreciation of 0 the th law will lie he of little value nevertie I loni As the government lot I 1 very desirous nt f at a oreal great britain in the matter t er ct 0 electoral law and the representation ot of the mining districts tile the aply then r narra to 0 o mr chamberlains ber lains proposals respecting a joint inquiry and rays pays considering that by these grent great britain does doea not aim at uny tiny interference in the of at fairs ot of the transvaal and that the action would not IM be regarded rat it ft precedent but has solely for Us its objection 10 ascertain whether the franchise ranch lac law u fills till iti burp purpose pur poBe 0 se the transvaal gov ei will await tho the ulterior apropo 9 alls a 0 f C areat reat britain as aa to ahn eventual C institution of such buch commission us 1115 well as ab tile the place and time of 0 meeting ns the transvaal Trang vaAl government further proposes at an early date dale to lend a M cetih fresh reply to tile letter of 0 july and eat presses gotha faction that great 1111 tain if lias declared a readiness to ne on oil the question of a court of 0 it says it would like to learn however whether the free plate b r r h rat would bo be admitted to such a court A r and khat would be the scope of ft the he courts coulta leo doo lalon lation it appearing to the government that the re imposed will prevent th attainment tain tairi ment of tile the objects aimed nt at with kard gard to the ulterior conference the T transvaal tans vival awaits the communications of 0 great britain the brussels agent of the transvaal claims that in making un its recent pro the government has acted on oil the advice of 0 the british agent agen t in pretoria etorla rr conyngham Cony Kham greene |
