revealed, and the conspiracy traced to its fountain head in
the British Cabinet, the Commission decided all of a sudden not
to make certain compromising documents public.

Here we see to what a depth the old great traditions of British
Constitutionalism had sunk under the influence of the
ever-increasing and all-absorbing lust of gold, and in the hands
of a sharp-witted wholesale dealer, who, like Cleon of old, has
constituted himself a statesman.

When Mr. Reitz wrote his book he did not know that immediately after the
Raid the British Government began to accumulate information, and to
prepare for the war with the Republic which is now in progress. The
reason why Mr. Reitz did not refer to this in _A Century of Wrong_ was
because documents proving its existence had not fallen into the hands of
the Transvaal Government until after the retreat from Glencoe. Major
White and his brother officers who were concerned in the Raid were much
chaffed for the incredible simplicity with which he allowed a private
memorandum as to preparations for the Raid to fall into the hands of the
Boers. His indiscretion has been thrown entirely into the shade by the
simplicity which allowed War Office documents of the most secret and
compromising nature to fall into the hands of the Boers, showing that
preparations for the present war began immediately after the defeat of
the Raid. The special correspondent of Reuter with the Boers telegraphed
from Glencoe on October 28th as follows:--

The papers captured at Dundee Camp from the British unveil a
thoroughly worked out scheme to attack the independence of both
Republics as far back as 1896, notwithstanding constant
assurances of amity towards the Free State.

Among these papers there are portfolios of military sketches of
various routes of invasion from Natal into the Transvaal and Free
State, prepared by Major Grant, Captain Melvill, and Captain Gale
immediately after the Jameson Raid.

A further portfolio marked secret styled "Reconnaissance Reports
of Lines of Advance through the Free State" was prepared by
Captain Wolley, on the Intelligence Division of the War Office,
in 1897, and is accompanied by a special memorandum, signed by
Sir Redvers Buller, to keep it secret.

Besides these there are specially executed maps of the Transvaal
and Free State, showing all the natural fe