Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-03
DR.. Jameson to Appear Before a
Court-martial.
MORE POLICE At JOHANNESBURG
Second Invasion of the .Transvaa|
Reported.
PRESIDENT KRUGERS ACTION

was issued by President Kruger today as
surfing the Uitlanders (foreign residents of
the TransvaaD that the government of the
republic is willing that they should submit
their grievances for immediate considera-
ton upon the part of the legislature. In ad-
dition, in order to prevent suffering at Jo-
hannesburg, the government has removed
all duties upon food stuffs.
AS a matter of precaution against a revo-
lutionary outbreak, the government has
sworn In 1000 volunteer police, consisting
OF people of all the nations represented in
the Transvaal. 1t will be their duty to
maintain order at johannesburg and else
where.
1t Is reported that DR.. Jameson. who was
defeated and captured, will be tried by
conrt-martial, and that his followers will
be released
The Black Watch Highlanders have been
ordered to stop, by force, the advance of a
second body of the British Chartered Com
pany's troops into the Transvaal
Trouble at johannesburg Feared.
LONDON, January 3.-Editor Hess of the
South Africa Critic says he has a cable
dispatch referring to the recent events at
johannesburg. sent since Dr. Jameson's de-
feat, and of such grave nature that he
declines to publish it until confirmed from
other sources.
MIR. Hess has had long experience in the
Transvaal. and his previous news regarding
the present crisis in affairs there has all
ceen accurate. In the course of an inter-
view today he was quoted as saying:
III johannesburg Is the same town I
Kew, the city has risen, and has either sue
ceeded or failed in an attempt to liberia te
". Jameson. l am satisfied that all the
foreigners there, including the Americans,
would help the English. There are practi-
cally no Beers at johannesburg, except the
armed burghers, who are parading the
streets"
Beyond this Mr.. Hess declined to talk but
1t was inferred from his manner that he had
WORD OF rising at johannesburg.
What the Newspapers Sny.
The Berlin correspondent of the Standard
quotes the National Zeitung as follows in
commenting upon the action Of England in
stirring up strife in Armenia, Africa and
eisewhere: This procedure requires to be
put stop to by Europe, with which the
United States VIII not unwillingly cooper
ate The other German newspapers stern
ly condemn DR.. Jameson's action.
Inc Times in special article assumes
that the fighting was accidental skir-
mish and that DR.. Jamesoh's surrender was
entirely voluntary. 1t is difficult to be-
Eeve," says the Times, that he could not
have made a better stand had he wanted
10 40 otherwis, than preserve his men in
The Marquis of Lansdowne, secretary of
state for war, visited the colonial office at
10 o'clock last night. The Daily News
says In an editorial: 1T is a serious ques-
ton whether the Chartered South African
Company should not be deprived of it's
charter"
In an interview, Montagu White, consul
general of the Transvaal in England, de-
never raised a finger to help DR.. Jameson
The Beers, he said, would treat Dr. jane
sons followers with generosity, but Dr.
Jameson himself would receive fair trial
and the punishment his crime merited.
BERLIN, January 3-Emperor William
the imperial chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe
1t Is supposed that their consultation had
reference to the recent events in the
Transvaal republic.
Likens England to n PickpOcket,
PARIS, January 3.-Not one of the news
papers of this city minces words in COM
ment1ng upon the invasion Of the Transyaal
territory by the filibustering expedition un-
der DR.. Jameson. In spite of the statement
made by the British colonial secretary. Mr.
Joseph Chamberlain, and the assertions of
the governor of Cape Colony, the premier
OF cape Colony, and the mana ging director
OF the British South Africa Company. the
Figaro insists that DR.. Jameson did not act
without having received orders to do so
from Cecil Rhodes, the premier of Cape
Colony, who, in turn, according to the news
paper mentioned, was in Communication
with England The Figaro adds:
The English simply wish to do with the
mines OF South Africa as pickpocket does
with ones purse, and with the help of a
well-organized hustle"
The Rappel remarks: Germany, France
and Russia are in accord What will Eng
land do? viii she dare, with the United
States already on her hands, to defy Europe
with her Unsuitable rapacity and untenable
claims, and end by arousing a Formidable
coalition, to which she will be compelled to
humiliate herself?
The Lanterne expresses the opinion that
Great Br1tafns contention that the foreign
powers have no right to intervene in the
Transvaal Is nothing more nor less than an
application of "Monroeism"
"Mr. Rhodes" adds the Lanterne. "wants
to capture Delagoa bay, and thus nullifv the
conquest of Madagascar" 'Ae
La Justice says: "Dr. Jameson's attepnt
at international filibustering has inflicted
one more defeat on the invading policy of
the united kingdom
What n Citizen of JOhannexbu-, s,
CHICAGO, January 81. B. Weinberg Of
johannesburg, who Is at present in this
city, says that the invasion of the Trans
vaal was in no sense an effort on. the mart
OF England to annex the celebrated Sout h
African gold fields. The people of Johan-
jameson, would fight to a man against
coming under British rule
when the Transvaal was unknown for
It's riches In gold and diamonds" Mr..
Weinberg continued, 1.-The laws concerning
the naturalization Of newcomers were the
same as In the Orange Free State and very
similar to the natura1izati ton laws of the
United States. But when the country be-
gan to fill up with miners and people inter-
ested In the gold and diamond Industries.
the Beers changed the laws and made 1t
impossible for anyone to become natural
lied. Then a high tariff was placed on
everything that the Beers were not likely
to uss. Particular enmity was shown to
the mining industries. In this way the re-
public succeeded in levying fully 80 per
cent of the taxes on the new population,
which was denied citizenship, In order to
prevent the newcomers from making an
effort to equalize the burdens
ut was five years ago." Mr.. Weinberg
added, that the National Union, to re-
move these gross abuses, was organized at
Johannesburg. 1t took in it's membership
all the more progressive mining men, many
of them being Americans and Germans,
who would bitterly oppose any attempt on
the part Of England to annex the country
Even the English residents would oppose
any such scheme for the country's subju-
cation. In my opinion, the National Union
has given up peaeeable means for obtain
ing reform, ard Is calling DIR. Jameson to
help its members overturn the republic.