MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S TELEGRAMS:—
From Mr. Chamberlain to the High Commissioner, Sir Alfred Milner.
(Sent 7.30 p.m. 10th October, 1899)
"10th October, No. 7. The British Agent has, in answering the demands of the Government of the South African Republic, to say that, as the Government of the South African Republic have declared in their dispatch, that they will look upon a refusal to consent to their demands as a formal declaration of war, he has received orders to demand his passport."
From Mr. Chamberlain to the High Commissioner, Sir Alfred Milner.
(Sent 10.45 p.m. 10th October, 1899)
"10th October, No. 8. The Government of Her Majesty has received with great sorrow the determined demands of the Government of the South African Republic contained in your telegram of the 9th of October, No. 3. You will, as an answer to the Government of the South African Republic, communicate to them that the conditions put forward by the Government of the South African Republic are of such a nature that the Government of Her Majesty cannot possibly think of taking them into consideration."