| Show TO BE GROWN COLONIES Plan for a Civil Government foe f South Africa S London June 12Ic Is learned by tho n r Associated Prom that the Government n has at last decided upon n plan for the p i > 9 civil settlement of South Africa The l J details uic kept most bccrei but it can r i safely be said that the Orange River k colony and the Transvaal will becomQ v frown colonies Sir Alfred Milner it Is 4 declared In to bi IlUrh ommlsloner of South Africa In spite of the opposl S non he has Incurred Plii ffiiuii inlnnv fnrm of rrnvorn S ment can be best understood by refer ence to che systnn In vogue In the West Indies Sierra Leone and Ceylon En deuVoirf will be made 10 put this In force as soon as possible in the Trans S vaal and Orange River colonies though It is scarcely expected that the details 1Q will be announced or some parts of the work be begun for a few months While the civil settlement will be S drawn up feo as to be eventually Inde I pendent of military enforcement It Is realized that the Initial work must be 1 effected with the cooperation of time troops Sir Alfred Milner appears S to believe S St that civil reorganisation and military paclfiuatlun can pioc ed simultane ously and that a i possible scattered rising will not seriously retard the ogress Of reorganization once It is begun lhi fVlonfjll nflr > i > Im S sjilfl In hr nf flin S cii 1 f S opinion nowaer mat me mainten mince of goodsized garrisons at such fl centers as Bloemfonleln Kroonslad J Johannesburg and Pretoria wMI he nii S lii > cossary for a long lime ailer the eroun colony system gtts In working order t S For this reasou and others put for I ward by Sir Alfred Milner the Ideft of S granting an autonomous form of gob ernment has been abandoned It Is be i lieved though it cannot bo verified P that a portion of the Trui svanl will bu b 1 partitioned oft to Natal The whole arrangement may be roughly described ns coinciding with 5 I the views advanced by the progres l sives The final steps m this direction have been taken during the huil few i days Sir Chiimberlaln sent for J P Fitzpatriok author of The Transvaal froth Within S who Is well known In i 1Urii connection wlh South African affairs and spiMit a whole day in consultation with him Mr Fiizpalrlck will t1 sail for Capetown JUIIP ICth to join the ud vlfory committee which Sir 1lin l Alfred tJ I As |
