Cape Town.
"The demands of the Transvaal people are too excessive! Is this a blatant threat against us?" Governor Battle Frier was truly angry with this group of brainless Boers.
Direct confrontation with East Africa! Battle Frier felt the Boers were not really aiming to confront East Africa, but rather challenging him as their superior.
And Battle Frier couldn't express his grievances because the Orange Free State is still a British colony at the moment.
If the Transvaal starts a war against East Africa now, what should Britain do? Ignore it? Clearly, that's not feasible.
This is essentially no different from Britain directly entering a war with East Africa, given that the merging of the Orange Free State into the Cape Colony is a historical fact.
So Battle Frier could only accept the Transvaal's extortion.
