Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-08
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. BRI4AM'S LITTLE WAR. Promise of Engagements in
 South Africa. HARVARDS REPLY TO YALE'S NOTE. More Correspondence on
 The Seal Fisheries. ANOTHER REVOLUTION IN SALVADOR. The Captured Itata Quietly
 Sails Away.
ANOTHER REVOLUTION IN SALVADOR.
THE REPUBLIC OF THE NORTH.

Roers in south Africa Massing to
 Inaugurate a New Form of Govern ment-Tired of British Rule-Red.
 coars to Re Sent Thither to Dtsct-
 pIine Them Into the Ways of the
 Queen. ~fs
 LONDON, May 7.-Replying to ques- tion in the house of commons to-day in re- gard to the reported Boer ''Trek" being prepared for the invasion of Mashonaland, Manicaland and other South African terri tories for the purpose of establishing the so-called Republic of the North, the secre- tary of the war int;mated that troops were being sent to British Bechuanaland in or der to oppose the Boer "Trek." This an- nounced movement of the Boers and inti- mated counter-movemento of British troops in Bechuanaland seem to be the prelude to another sslittle war" in South Africa. The Boers have never forgotten their successes over the British troops in the transvaal, where the Boers' superior markmanship enabled them to inflict severe loss upon the less skillful English troops sent against them. When it first became known that the "Trek" was projected five thousand Boers were calculated to be upon the point of forming the army of invasion. There was no attempt to conceal the pro iected raid and the apparent indifference of the British government to the move ment caused great indignation at Cape Town and elsewhere, so much so, that meetings of South African subjects of Great Britain were called and it was openly said that if no help against the Boers was to be expected from Great Britain, it was time for the Cape Colonies to declare themselves inde- pendent This seems to have some what stirred up Lord Salisbury's govern ment, for the British high commissioner and commander-in- chief at Cape Town, Sir Henry Brougham, was instructed some ten days ago to inform President Kruger of the Transvaal republic that any movement of the Boers into the disputed territory would be considered as an act of hostility to the queen of England. To this Presi- dent Kruger replied briefly that he had 'sdamped the Trek", and it was supposed that affair was ended. A day or two later, however, it became known in Cape Town and elsewhere that the force of Boers which proposed to establish the Republic of the North was composed of 10000 Boers instead of 5000 as at first supposed, and it was added in spite of President Kruger's anxiety to live up to the obligations entered into between the Transvaal and Great Britain, it would possibly be beyond his power to prevent SO, ,OOO well-armed Boers from carrying out any tsTreking" plan which they might have formed. The Trekers are understood to be upon the point of massing together from the Transvaal, the Free State and from the Cahe governments. According to the plan announced, these war-like farmers will assemble on the southern bank of Limpopo river, between the 18th and the 31st of this month, and will cross the Limpopo on June 1 and immediate ly proclaim the Republic of the North. The leaders of the Trek include men of position from both the Free States and Cape Colony, and all steps talk en are said to have met with the approval of the famous Afrikander Bund, which was recently in session at Kimberly, the well known mining town in West Griqua- land, South Africa. It will thus be seen that the Boer movement to the north Is a South African movement in the direction of northward expansion and is of serious nature, and it is bound to conflict with the claims of the British Chartered company, to say nothing of the claims of the Portu- gese South African company. In fact one of the objects of the raid is said to be the extinction of the claims of the Chartered company and the replacement of the com | pany by popular South African govern. 1 ment, free from all control from emperia l couarpOoant