Footnote 277: Cd. 903.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 278: Cd. 903.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 279: The action of Sir W. Hely-Hutchinson was not without precedent. See Cd. 903, pp. 57 and 67, and p. 123, supra.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 280: Cd. 903.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 281: Queen Victoria died January 22nd, 1901.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 282: Cd. 983.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 283: Cd. 903. These measures were taken upon Lord Milner's return to the Transvaal (September, 1901) after his visit to England. The scandal of the almost open co-operation of the Bond with the Boer leaders had become notorious, and this assistance was recognised as a contributory cause to the protraction of the guerilla war.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 284: Cd. 903.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 285: Cd. 903.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 286: Cd. 903. This was, in its essence, the proposal for the systematic and effective defence of the Colony, which Lord Milner had consistently advocated both before and during the war—with General Butler and the Home Government, with Lord Roberts at the time of the Forward Movement (see p. [353]), and now at the eleventh hour with Lord Kitchener in support of the Cape Government.[Back to Main Text]