The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-31

LONDON, May 30.--The most inter-
esting feature of the week has been an
article in the Nineteenth Century,
purporting to give the true motive or
reason for Dr. Jameson's raid into the
Transvaal and seeming to be Cecil
Rhodes plea in justification. 1t has,
in any case revived the South African
scandal and attracted great deal of
attention. The author of the article
is Seymour Fort, who was private sec
rotary of Sir Henry Brougham Loeb
when the latter was British commits
sioner in South Africa. Mr.. Fort de-
clares that Cecil Rhodes was deter
mined to
PUSH THE REVOLUTION,
and, learning that President Kruger
had entered into a secret political en-
tente with Germany, which presented
such immediate and imminent danger
to the imperial and Afrikander intef-
est in South Africa, that Mr.. Rhodes
resolved ''at all hazards to upset the
Acknowledgement cabal. But it is
claimed that he had no intention of
overthrowing the South African re-
public.
Fort further asserts that the imme-
date object of the raid was to secure
documentary proofs of the alliance be-
tween the Transvaal and Germany, the
necessary documents, it was believed,
being in the possession of President
Kruger at Pretoria.
Rhodes, it is also asserted had
abandoned despairingly all attempts to
persuade President Kruger to CO.
operate with the imperial Afrikander
interests after an interview with them,
which took place in 1894, which, it is
alleged, convinced him of the Trans
vaal presidents determination to
bring about hostility to Great Britain.
THE ORIGINAL PLAN OF THE
RAID,
Fort said, was to capture Pretoria.
Had that been carried out, the forts
ammunition, and even the town itself,
would be in the hands of the ref0rmers
in a single night. Every detail was
determined on in advance, but at the
last moment it seems the nerve of the
Johannesburgers failed.
Fort contends that it was never in
tended to interfere with the liberty of
President Kruger and the officials Of
the South African republic, and con-
cludes with pointing to the attitude
of Germany subsequent to the raid,
and to the utterances of the German
press as evidence of the close relations
which exist between Pretoria and
Berlin.
The address of Colonel Cecil Rhodes
Che was elected a colonel of volunteers
to the British South African troops at
Pongo on Wednesday has also served
to
REVIVE THE BITTER MEMORIES
of the Transvaal raid. He sketched his
arrangement for ending the rebellion,
building forts and raising the police
force, etc.
But it is pointed out here that these
duties do not belong to Cecil Rhodes,
but to General Sir Frederick Caring
ton, formerly British commander of
Gibraltar, who was recently appointed
to the command of the British forces
operating against the insurgent Mata-
belle and to Sir Richard Martin, the
newly appointed administrator of the
territory, of the British Chartered
South Africa company. The English
newspapers remind Rhodes that he re-
turned to Matabeleland private per-
son, and that he had no power from
the secretary Of state for the colonies,
as Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain has an
nounced, to move a single police
Consequently the speech Mr.. Rhodes
L
INCREASE THE DISTRUST
of the Beers by conveying to them the
impression that he has military adj
ministrative powers.
The dispatch to the Times from
Cairo regarding the decision of the
mixed tribunal upon the appeals of the
French syndicate against the use of
the Egyptian reserve fund for the eX-
pense of the campaign up the Nile, has
caused a decidedly bad impression
here. The Times correspondent wired
that it was an open secret that the
tribunal had come to the decision that
the Egyptian government cannot make
war against the Khalifa, or even resist
a Soudanese invasion, without the con-
sent of each member of the debt COM
mission. This decision, which it is
said will be announced on Monday, i'll
every way supports the French con-
tention and evidently means that
Great Britain will have to advance
Egypt the funds necessary to push the
expedition forward.
It is true that the matter can be
referred to the court of appeals, but
there is very little hope that the latter
will
REVERSE THE DECISION
of the mixed tribunal, as it is more
by political than by judicial
and France has more
representatives in the court of appeals
than the other powers.
In the meanwhile the news from the
front IS very satisfactory to the British
authorities. Troops and stores
are advancing up the Nile without
hitch anywhere, and deserters from
the Dervishes report that the arrival
Of British Indian troops at Suakim has
created a strong impression in the Sou
dan, as the Dervishes, it is said, now
anticipate a combined advance from
Suakim and Akasheh. The Khalifa is /
said TO greatly fear an attack upon the
Berber and Osman Digna is re-
ported to be greatly discouraged by
his recent defeat and to have advised
the Khalifa that unless reinforced he
intends to retire still further from the
Red sea.