REITZ, _State-Secretary._ MR.

CHAMBERLAIN'S TELEGRAMS:-- FROM MR.

CHAMBERLAIN TO THE HIGH COMMISSIONER, SIR ALFRED MILNER.
(Sent 7.30 p.m._10th October, 1899_) "10th _October_, No.7.The British Agent has, in answering the demands of the Government of the South African Republic, to say that, as the Government of the South African Republic have declared in their dispatch, that they will look upon a refusal to consent to their demands as a formal declaration of war, he has received orders to demand his passport." FROM MR.

CHAMBERLAIN TO THE HIGH COMMISSIONER, SIR ALFRED MILNER.
(Sent 10.45 p.m._10th October, 1899_) "10th _October_, No.8.The Government of Her Majesty has received with great sorrow the determined demands of the Government of the South African Republic contained in your telegram of the 9th of October, No.3.You will, as an answer to the Government of the South African Republic, communicate to them that the conditions put forward by the Government of the South African Republic are of such a nature that the Government of Her Majesty cannot possibly think of taking them into consideration." CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE TWO PRESIDENTS AND LORD SALISBURY FROM THE STATES-PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND THE ORANGE FREE STATE TO HIS EXCELLENCY LORD SALISBURY, LONDON.
"BLOEMFONTEIN, _5th March, 1900_.
"The blood and tears of the thousands who have suffered through this war, and the prospect of all the moral and material ruin which now threatens South Africa, render it necessary for both parties carrying on the war to ask themselves calmly, and in the faith of the Trinity, for what they are fighting and if the aims of both justify all this horrible misery and devastation.

On this account, and with an eye to the assertion of several English Statesmen that the war was begun and carried on with the determined end to undermine Her Majesty's authority in South Africa, and to establish in the whole of South Africa a Government independent of Her Majesty's Government, we consider it our duty to declare that this War was only commenced as a measure of defence and for the purpose of obtaining a guarantee for the threatened independence of the South African Republic, and was only continued in order to ensure the indisputable independence of both Republics as Sovereign International States, and to obtain the assurance that the subjects of Her Majesty who have taken part with us in the war will not suffer the least hurt either in their lives or their possessions.
On these conditions alone we demand, as in the past, to see peace restored in South Africa, and an end made to the wrong that now exists there.