The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-07
BASE UlTLANDERS.
Their Urgent Appeals We're
the Only Cause of jane
sons Raid.
THEN THEY DESERTED HIM
Grandma Queen scolds the Bump
tious Kaiser --lreland
Jubilant.
HEN THEY DESERTED HIM
Bu Gable to the United Press.

Gazette says that Mr. Chamberlain,
Secretary of State for the Colonies, will
visit the Queen at Osborne this evening.
Lord Salisbury visited the Foreign
Office this afternoon and Immediately
after his arrival received Mr. Chamber
lain and later received Count Won Hatz-
feldt, the German Ambassador.
The Westminster Gazette says the
Queen has written letter to the EN-
peror of Germany rebuking him for his
attitude in regard to the Transvaal; es-
pecially in the matter of the congratula-
tory message which his Majesty sent to
President Kruger
The s5t. James's Gazette'' says.-ssWe
would rather face a rupture with Ger
many than to renounce the stipulation
of the convention of 1884 that any inter
national arrangement made by the South
Africa Republic requires the consent and
ratification of Great Britain.
Political circles in London maintain
that if it be true that the Emperor of
Germany has promised to recognize the
independence of the Transvaal Republic
by appointing German Resident in
stead of a consul at Pretoria, it may
mean war between Great Britain and
Germany.
Anti-German feeling is growing rapidly
in the East End of London The win
. dows of number of shops in White
chapel kept by Germans and Jews have
been broken, and the Hollander Club and
some of the East End German Clubs
have been closed. fearing that they
might be attacked. There have been
several disturbances between English and
German and Dutch sailors at the docks,
iaJ,
The Stock Exchange market opened
quiet and pessimistic feeling prevailed
throughout. Foreign securities were in
active, American railroads unsettled and
mining stocks dull and weak
Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of
the Cape Colony. is not at Pretoria
Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of
the Cape Colony, has wired Mr. Chamber
lain, Colonial Secretary, from Pretoria,
under yesterdays date, that an order
has been issued in the name of the
Queen directing the officers of the Brit
ish South Africa Company. in charge of
the ordnance and reserve ammunition at
Buluwayo and Fort Salisbury, to hand
the same over to an imperial officer
Orders were also sent on January 2 to
the Civil Administrator at Buluwayo call
ing upon all citizens to maintain law and
order. This order was faithfully obeyed.
The excitement will be allayed, Governor
Robinson says, when it is known that
DR.. Jameson and his comrades have been
released
A despatch from Cape Town says that
after nightfali on the day of the battle
between DR.. Jameson and his followers
and the Beers the latter used search
lights, themselves remafling under cover
and relying upon their sharpshooters to
pick off Jameson's men
A despatch to the Central News. dated
johannesburg. January 8. gives brief
report of an Interview had by the Central
News representative with Mr. Jameson
who was sent as a prisoner to Pretoria
Il only crossed the frontier said the
Doctor because of the urgent appeals
made by the inhabitants of Johannesburg
and because I fully believed that large
numbers of my countrymen and country
women were in dire perils of their lives.
1t was only to save them and protect them
that I moved I could have beaten the
Beers if the people of Johannesburg had
made any effort to help themselves,
which I was led to expect they would do
Help did not reach us at Krugersdorp,
and we could not break through the Boer
lines We fought until we were dropping
to the ground exhausted and our anmuni-
ton had beens pent.
The Beers were in strong position
and in strong force and we were unable
to shift them, but if the men of Johannes
burg had only destroyed the railway to
Krugersdorp which they could easily
have done. it would have prevented the
supplies of ordnance being taken to the
it,+, l,al ,ial, -,I.11
to hold out against our attacks AS it
was, a special train loaded with ammu-
milton ran out to the Beers from Jo-
hannesburg without hndrance."
The westminster Gazette has a de-
spatch from Cape Town which says
"A general feeling of nauseating con-
tempt for the Uitlanders of Johannes
burg exists here. This feeling is based
upon their obvious cowardice in sitting
quietly down after Turing DIR. Jameson
into his blun6er and offering him no as
sistance whatever
The Johannesburg Standard has cabled
to London, under the date of January g..
that four thousand Beers with Maxim
guns surrounded DR.. Jameson's men and
one hundred of the latter were killed or
wounded. After Jameson and his men
surrendered they were disarmed and
marched to Pretoria. A revulsion of
feeling has set in at johannesburg and
the reform leaders are roundly de-
nounced for their desertion of DR.. Jane
son. 1T was a mob revolution, = the
STANDARD says, .'in which the main pop
ulation did not join
Immediately after Great Britain offer
ed assistance to the Beers the stores
We're closed trade became stagnant and
women and children began leaving for
the coast in coal. cattle and horse
trucks and every kind of vehicle avail
able. The scene at the railway station
was indescribable. The town is perfectly
orderly.
A despatch from Johannesburg dated
January 2 says that one of the agents
of Reuters Telegram Company was ar
rested there as a British South Africa
Companys spy.
Another despatch from Johannesburg,
dated January |, says that a deputaticn
sent to Pretoria had concluded a three
days armistice liz order to permit the
arrival Of Governor Robinson. who was
expected to arrive In Pretoria on Janu-
ary 4. In the meantime the National
Union Of JIitlanders control the town.
A proclamation issued by Governor
Robinson has been published warning
British subjects in the Transvaal against
Joining Or. Jameson, who, the proclama-