Road to war left|thumb|upright=1.1|Sir Alfred Milner, the British High Commissioner for Southern Africa|alt=A moustachioed man in a dark three-piece suit Anglo-German relations warmed during late 1898, with Berlin disavowing any interest in the Transvaal; this opened the way for Milner and Chamberlain to take a firmer line against Kruger. The so-called "Edgar case" of early 1899, in which a South African Republic Policeman was acquitted of manslaughter after shooting a British subject dead during an attempted arrest, prompted outcry from the British element in the Transvaal and is highlighted by Nathan as "the starting point of the final agitation which led to war".
Road to war left|thumb|upright=1.1|Sir Alfred Milner, the British High Commissioner for Southern Africa|alt=A moustachioed man in a dark three-piece suit Anglo-German relations warmed during late 1898, with Berlin disavowing any interest in the Transvaal; this opened the .way for Milner and Chamberlain to take a firmer line against Kruger. The so-called "Edgar case" of early 1899, in which a South African Republic Policeman was acquitted of manslaughter after shooting a British subject dead during an attempted arrest, prompted outcry from the British element in the Transvaal and is highlighted by Nathan as "the starting point of the final agitation which led to war"