Editing Jameson Raid (section)

== Effect on Anglo-Boer relations ==
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The affair brought Anglo-Boer relations to a dangerous low. Tensions were further exacerbated by the "[[Kruger telegram]]" from [[Kaiser]] [[Kaiser Wilhelm II|Wilhelm II]] congratulating [[Paul Kruger|Kruger]] on defeating the "raiders". The German telegram came to be widely interpreted as an offer of military aid to the Boers. Wilhelm was already perceived by many as anti-British after initiating a costly [[Anglo-German naval arms race|naval arms race]] between Germany and Britain.
As tensions quickly mounted, the [[South African Republic|Transvaal]] began importing large quantities of arms and signed an alliance with the [[Orange Free State]] in 1897. [[Jan Smuts|Jan C. Smuts]] wrote in 1906 of the Raid, "The Jameson Raid was the real declaration of war ... And that is so in spite of the four years of truce that followed ... [the] aggressors consolidated their alliance ... the defenders on the other hand silently and grimly prepared for the inevitable."

Joseph Chamberlain condemned the raid despite previously having approved Rhodes' plans to send armed assistance in the case of a Johannesburg uprising. In London, despite some condemnation by the print-media, most newspapers used the episode as an opportunity to whip-up anti-Boer feelings.  Though they faced criminal charges in London for their actions in South Africa, Jameson and his raiders were treated as heroes by much of the popular public. Chamberlain welcomed the escalation by Transvaal as an opportunity to annex the Boer states.