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Boer Politics

PREFACE
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122.] _The Profits from the Jameson Raid._ The trial by the Government of Pretoria of the sixty-four members of the "Reform Committee" was held in Johannesburg.

Four of them, Mr.Lionel Phillips, Colonel Rhodes, Mr.George Farrar, and Mr.Hammond were condemned to death.

The remainder were sentenced to two years' imprisonment and L2,000 fine, or failing payment, to another year's imprisonment and three years' banishment.

The Executive reserved to themselves the right to confiscate their property.
In commutation of the four death sentences, the Government exacted L100,000; fifty-six other prisoners paid in a sum of L112,000.

One of the accused died, another who had pleaded not guilty, was so ill that his sentence was not carried out; Messrs.


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