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Show iH iiiK ltiimbu anh rut: uokiis, iH Under (lie rboe betdlntthelaitU- H-VAS auo of tho Improvement Hta liai the follonlngtntayi i "Tho war wbleli began latel. Wlfceil il i:nglandand the Booth African republ.'Cf H P'liddulover by l'reildentl'aulKruger, HBB can only end In tho victory of the llrlt- lthoterth lloert. The ronlllct, bow iVJ ecr, will probably wltnett lonio det- perate encounter, rrrtldeut Kruger B bat foily Ihoutand men under hit com- J maud, now that tho neighboring rcpub iL lie, the Orange l'ree State, hat made ivmtuon kauto with the Tiauial The iV (Mjutb African republic It aliout UP.OtX) iH equaro mllei In ezttul, and haiapopti- iH latlonotowr one million, of whom tho iH majority aro blacks. Iho Ilpera form j the minority of the white opulatlon, iH while the "Ulllanden,"or forelgnert, jH mostly llrltlih, pay nearly alt the rev DH rone of about (Uemlllloniof dollara an- ijHH nually, butate debarrej frotua otco In IRB tbegOM-rnmeiit. Johanneiburg (i the fljPH j leading city et.d the center of the luln- JBBeH jL '" region, and bad a 0uatioD, before fJrfsvCE warUscamoliamluunt, of oeronehun mB, dredtbouiand. The Orange rree6tate fiPSES2lJ ' "ndcanletr n aim u MKVut lvlVv |