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THE DORNKOP FIGHT. 733' farmupon it, and some mining buildings higher up. On theright theDornkophillrosesteeply. Pressing forward by the road, Jameson's men came under a cross fire from the slope on the left and from trenches on the Dornkop. They couldnot make any progress,though supported by the Maxii is and the two guns. About 8 o'clock the Boer artillery began to come into British authorities,whodeported them to Eng-" land, where Jameson andsome of his colleagues were tried and convicted for levying war on a friendly State. Mr, Cecil Rhodes resigned the Cape Premiership, and the first results of the raid were to adjourn all chance of reformin the Transvaal for some time to come, to stir up a bitterracialfeeling inSouth Africa,and to drive LAST ROLL CALL OF DR. JAMESON'S MEN AT PRETORIA.

(Photo: Arthur Elliott, Pretoria.)

action. Its appearance was a certain sign that Johannesburg was not moving, and that reinforcements werearrivingfrom Pretoria. Jameson saw the game was up. The white flag was hoisted, the fir::, -. -\: and the tired men flungthemselves on the ground to rest.

The Dornkop fight had lasted ah-,at half an hour. The loss of the raiders was only six killed and twelve wounded— rather a contrast tothe terrible carnagedescribedin the Laure premature lay. The tated their loss at only five killed, one of them, by tin Uitlander, a Scotch settler who had long been a Boer citizen,and joinedCronje's levy at fli to arms. The. treatedtheir prisoners well,and "ttidi r handed them over to the Mr. Rhodes's friends from power in the 'Cape Colony, where the next elections placed the Dutch party inpower.

An ill-advised telegram from the German Emperor to President Kruger, congratulating him on his victory, and hinting at possible German support for the Boers, called forth angry protests in England,and for a while the relations between Great Britain and Germany were seriously strained. Another result of the raidwas asanguinary nativeoutbreak inRhodesia.

Even the most experienced of the while settlers had, with one exception, no suspicion that any trouble was at hand, notwithstanding that rumours were abroad among the natives that Li P was not dead, but was coming

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