Footnote 52: The petition, with its 21,684 signatures, reached Lord Milner through Sir W. (then Mr.) Greene, the British Agent at Pretoria, on March 27th. It was forwarded by the High Commissioner to England in the mail of March 29th. The same ship, the Carisbrook Castle, carried Dr. Leyds, who was returning to Europe after a visit to Pretoria. Sir W. Greene had returned to South Africa in the same ship with Lord Milner (February 14th), and had stayed at Government Cottage (Newlands) with him for some days, discussing Transvaal matters, before proceeding to Pretoria on February 19th.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 53: C. 9,345.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 54: C. 9,345. See forward, p. [155].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 55: See p. [125].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 56: The Johannesburg Star, April 1st, 1905.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 57: Proceedings of the Select Committee on British South Africa (Q. 4,385).[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 58: For the position of Great Britain from the point of view of international law see some remarks in the note on page [580] (Chapter XII.).[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 59: See pp. [61], [69], and [93].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 60: Mr. Merriman's expression. See his letter to Mr. Fischer at p. [161].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 61: Cd. 369.[Back to Main Text]