he Government. Lord Loch will be interested in
reading Mr. Reitz's account of the way in which his visit to Pretoria
was regarded by the Transvaal Government. It shows that it was his visit
which first alarmed the Boers, and compelled them to contemplate the
possibility of having to defend their independence with arms. But it was
not until after the Jameson Raid that they began arming in earnest. As
there is so much controversy upon this subject, it may be well to quote
here the figures from the Budget of the Transvaal Government, showing
the expenditure before and after the Raid.

Public Special Sundry
Military. Works. Payments. Services. Total.
L L L L L
1889 75,523 300,071 58,737 171,088 605,419
1890 42,999 507,579 58,160 133,701 742,439
1891 117,927 492,094 52,486 76,494 739,001
1892 29,739 361,670 40,276 93,410 528,095
1893 19,340 200,106 148,981 132,132 500,559
1894[1] 28,158 260,962 75,859 163,547 521,526
1895[2] 87,308 353,724 205,335 838,877 1,485,244
1896 495,618 701,022 682,008 128,724 2,007,372
1897 396,384 1,012,686 248,864 135,345 1,793,279
1898[3] 163,451 383,033 157,519 100,874 804,877

Of the Raid itself Mr. Reitz speaks as follows:--

The secret conspiracy of the Capitalists and Jingoes to overthrow
the South African Republic began now to gain ground with great
rapidity, for just at this critical period Mr. Chamberlain became
Secretary of State for the Colonies. In the secret correspondence
of the conspirators, reference is continually made to the
Colonial Office in a manner which, taken in connection with later
revelations and with a successful suppression of the truth, has
deepened the impression over the whole world that the Colonial
Office was privy to, if not an accomplice in, the villainous
attack on the South African Republic.

Nor has the world forgotten how, at the urgent instance of the
Africander party in the Cape Colony, an investigation into the
causes of the conflict was held in Westminster; how that
investigation degenerated into a low attack upon the Government
of the deeply maligned and deeply injured South African Republic,
and how at the last moment, when the truth was on the point of
being