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Show STEYN'S PROCLAMATION. President Orange Free State luB.es One to K11 rg-hers. Capetown, Oct. 14. President Stein of the Orange Free State has issued a proclamation to the Free State burghers burgh-ers in which he says: "Our sister republic re-public is about to be attacked by an unscrupulous enemy, who has long looked for a pretext to annihilate the Afrikanders. Our people are bound to the Transvaal by tics as well as by. formal for-mal treaty." President Steyn declares solemnly in the presence of the Almighty that he is compelled to resist the powerful enemy owing to the injustice done his , kith aud kin. Solemn obligations, he declares, have not protected the Trans- vattl against the annexation conspir- acy, and when its independence ceases the Free State's existence as an independent inde-pendent state is meaningless. |