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Show Transvaal to Be Crown Colony. Tho announcement In tho British parliament of tho futuro military arrangements ar-rangements In south Afrlcn, coupled with Gen. Botha's manifesto denouncing denounc-ing tho present Chaniberlnln-Mllnor system of government ns despotic, marks a now stage In handling England's Eng-land's greatest colonial problem. Thoro Is no doubt that tho Intention Is to govern tho Transvaal as a crown colony In tho si latest senso of tho torm that Is to say, solely by officials appointed from England nnd backed by a largo and permanent military garrison. Tho tentntivo schemes which Secretary Chamberlain mentioned men-tioned during his Afrlcnn tour "of advisory ad-visory counslls whero elected Boer delegates woro to sit havo been abandoned. |