The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-26
FURY Of THE FUNNEL SHAPED
CLOUDS TRAVELLING SIDE BY SIDE,

fishes a long interview with one of the IA
nous chiefs of the bloodthlrsty and most
cruel Basutos. The chief said in one por
tion of his interview: "The Free State is
between two fires. You don't understand?
Then L will make it plain. The Free
State has pledged itself to help the Trans
vaal in case Of war. If the Transvaal
goes to war with England the Free State
goes also. Then we shall say to England:
The Free State has declared war against
you and we as true subjects will help you
What is more, had the whole of South
Africa been plunged into war soon after
the Jameson invasion we Basutos would
have attacked you (the Free State). I as
sure you the Swazis, Bechuanas, Zulus
and the Transvaal natives would have
joined against you"
The Natal militia are in camp, ready to
move should it be necessary. They have
been supplied with new Maxim guns and
more horses. Night and day the militia
are being drilled. The force has been in
creased to 800 men.
Never has there been so much feeling of
unrest in South Africa as at present.
The ferocious Matabeie in Rhodesia have
killed scores of white men, women and
children; in Bechuanaland the natives
are in dangerous state of unrest; the
recently conquered Pondos are causing
the British authorities great anxiety,
being excited by the successes of the
MatabeIe; the unconauered Basutos are
leaving their work and returning to their
kraals and talking warlike, while the
numbering SwaZis are being closely
watched by the Beers. The antagonism
between Boer and British people is more
pronounced than ever. The tiniest spark
would set both at each others throat
In the VolksTaad at Pretoria the cry is
Flight them," if the British want war.
Land en- Volk, the official journal at Pre-
toria, editoriaIly says: THE persecution
of our people by England is growing like
burning coal IN the heart of every Afri-
cander, and it only requires this step-the
sending OF an expedltion-to fan fame,
which can only be e1tinguished by blood.
England will not have to reckon with
small, though brave people, only. isolated
IN corner OF South Africa; she will have
to reckon with an army of 10000 men,
who have grown up with rifles in their
hands and do not enter frivolously upon
struggle of this nature. we defend the
soil which has been rendered sacred to us
by the blood of our parents, and we fight
an Unsuitable enemy, who would take from
US by violence our land, our liberty and
our existence as a nation. 1t will be
declaration of war between two nations.
There will be no more peace until the in
fuence of one of these nations shall have
been obliterated in South Africa forever"
a secret alliance still exists between the
South African Republic and Germany, no
matter what the British Government may
say to the contrary.
The great number of people out of work
in Johannesburg has driven hundreds OF
them to robbery and burglary. The Glen
cairn gold mine was robbed by four masked
men of $25, 600 worth of gold, the months
earnings.
Ed Giles of Colorado, o. S. A, was
killed by a dynamite explosion at the
Salisbury gold mine the other day.
The Johannesburg militia (Boers and
Uitlanders) has been increased to 600 loot
and $50 horse. Forty tons of rifles and
ammunition have been received at Pre-
toria. Two carloads of Maxim guns have
also been received One carload was sent
to johannesburg
Twenty thousand Johannesburgers have
signed petition and forwarded it to Pre-
toria asking for the release of the revolu-
tionsry prisoners, John Hays Hammond
and his associates.
Rinderpest has broken out in several
portions of South Africa and cattle and
horses are dying like flies before an icy
wind.
When the Matabee attacked Buluwayo
truO mi of oh,
Johannesburg and offered their services to
fight the natives. The people of BuIuwayo
telegraphed back: 'Do not want Jo-
hannesburg. We remember Jameson"
At the head of the Matabele is Mimic, or
the god" He has proclaimed himself
king. The old men refuse to take part in
the fight and leave it to the young men.
AT hyatt Captain Pettendrigh, with fifty
men, attacked 800 natives. For eight hours
the fight lasted, and only one man out of
Pettendrigh's command escaped. At
Buluwayo there are fully 500 unarmed
men and 400 women and children in
laager. The Matabele have looted and de-
stroyed all houses and stores in the coun-
try around Buluwayo, and hundreds of
people are rendered homeless and penni-
less.
Nearly 100000 bushels of mealies (corn)
were imported into Natal from the United
States last month, the locust plague hav-
ing destroyed the mealie crop. Prices for
mealies are very stiff.
Twenty-three companies have seeded
from the old Chamber of Mines and will
form a new chamber. These companies
won't have anything to do with the COM
panies controlled by John HAYS Ham
mond's wealthy syndicates since the at
tempted revolution. The seeding COM
panies announce separate output of gold
for the month.