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Show s RUIN OF JOHANNESBURG. Will Make England Pay the Price of Victory. Vic-tory. , London, Aug. 13. A dispatch from Johannesburg says that the Boers ic -threatening Great Britain in the event of war, says they are determined tc wreck the mines and irretrievably ruic the general body of shareholders bj blowing up millions of dollars wortt of machinery, adding that the war wil mean the absolute ruin of Johannes burg, both as a town and a mininj center, and saying: ''While it will doubtless end in a vie tory for England, the price of that yio tory will be the ruin of thousands whi ought to consider the price they mus1 pay before authorizing the govermen' to declare war." Another Johannesburg dispatch pre diets further concessions and says "The reply of the Transvaal to thi proposal for a joint inquiry is beinj delayed until the government has pre- . pared a scheme granting the Outland-ers Outland-ers immediate and substantial representation, repre-sentation, as the Transvaal will mak i every effort to avert intervention in the internal affairs of the country." ' |