The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-02
Beers and English Sure to Come
Together Soon.
FIGHT INEVITABLE
England, it is Said Now Wants
to Arbitrate. ~
The Transvaal is Invaded by the
Burghers.

Pretoria, Transvaa1 republic, to-day,
tends to confirm the gravity of the
situation there, growing out of the in
vasion of the Boer territory by an
armed force of the British South At
RIGA company, numbering about 700
men, with six maxim guns. led by DR..
Jameson, who was SO successful in his
operatiou against King Lobenguia.
The Transvaal president, Kruger, has
called upon the Burghers to defend
their country, and a serious conflict is
anticipated, in spite of the fact that
the colonial secretary, the Hon Jo-
seph Chamberlain, has telegraphed to
DIR. Jameson to withdraw into British
territory and has urged President Kru-
ger to do his utmost to prevent blood
shed.
A dispatch received here from the
Transvaal by financial paper says:
1.-The Burghers are advancing to meet
Jameson. A conflict is hourly ex-
pecte&"
The afternoon papers comment at
great length upon this fresh trouble
which the British government has to
face. They recognize the fact that
the invasion of the Transvaal,
quest OF thousands of Englishmen and
others in the Transvaal, who COM
plain that they have to pay the whole
revenue of the country, while being
denied representation, is liable to give
particular offense to Germany, whose
friendship, at this critical stage, the
Marquis of Salisbury is most anxious
to cultivate.
As the telegraph wires are believed
to have been cut behind DIR. Jane
sons force, and as the Boer forces,
well armed and equipped, have been
modified under General Joubert,
news of a bloody conflict is expect
ed. The Beers can put in the field
about 5000 fighting men, supported
with maxim guns, and to oppose this
force DIR. Jameson has only about
700 men, with six maxim guns,
who may receive the direct or in
direct assistance of about 4, 1000 I'M
trained and badly armed Englishmen.
However, Jameson may be a BILE to call
to his support l, 900 men belonging to
the De Bers Company, whose head
quarters are at Kimberly. These men
are well equipped, aud would prove
an effective Reinforcement for Dr.
Jameson. But. as the latter is already
said to be advancing upon Johannes
burg with his small body of men, he
may meet the Beers and the issue be
decided before any reinforcementS can
| reach him. Great Britain, through
Cn0 cOlOnldl secretary, mas Oder6Q TO
arbitrate the matter, but it is feared
that the offer has come too late, and
that serious consequences are to be
apprehended.
The secretary of state for the colo
MES, Mr.. Chamberlain, has issued the
following statement on the Transvaa1
question: Having learned on Mon
day evening that DR.. Jameson had en-
tered the Boer country, ] have since
been continuously engaged in an en-
deavor to avert the consequences of
his extraordinary action. Sir Hercules
Robinson has, by proclamation, pub
lic1y repudiated DR.. Jameson's act, and
has enjoined the British subjects to
| obey the law and remain quiet. DR..
Jameson and his officers have also been
ordered to retire Immediately. 1t is
hoped that collision will be averted,
but DIR. Jam eson cut the wires as he
advanced"
1.-THE British agent at Johannes
burg" Mr.. Chamberlain's statement
continues, lis moving forward to meet
Dr. Jameson and to order him, in the
Queens name, to retire. 1 have called
upon the chartered company to repu-
date DR.. Jameson's proceedings, of
which the company says it is entirely
! ignorant