The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05
JAMESON'S FIGHT A LONG ONE.
ONE OF HIS BATTLES WITH THE
BOERS LASTED EIGHT HOURS.


Reported TO Have Acted in Most
Gallant Manaer-Their Force
Greatly Outnumbered and Greatly
Exhausted From Their Long March
and Lack of Food.
London. Jan. 4-Joseph Chamberlain,
secretary of state for the colonies. re-
ceived at $40 o'clock this morning a cable
gram from Sir II. G. r. Robinson. gov
ernOr and commander-in-chief of Cape
Colony, saying: Il received the following
telegram from Sir Jacobus a. de Wet,
British agent at Pretoria. at O'Clock last
evening: Everything quiet now Further
serious disturbances will not occur a
deputation from the johannesburg reform
committee came last evening, giving a
guarantee Of peace. 1 informed President
Kruger of that guarantee and he as
sured me, pending Gov. RobInson's ar
rival that if the johannesburg people
were quiet and did not commit any hostile
acts, that johannesburg would not be mo-
Tested or surrounded by the burgher
forces. The deputation was highly pleased
at this assurance, and gave a pledge that
the reform committee would preserve or
der
Agent de Wet proceeds to say: i tes-
tify in the strongest manner to the great
moderation and forebearance of the gov
ernment OF the Transvaal under excep-
tional and trying circumstances "
Gov. Robinson Of Cape Colony has tele-
graphed TO Mr.. Chamberlain that Of the
force led into the Transvaal by DR. Jane,
son seventy We're killed. thirty wounded
ana 800 taken prisoners. He also tele-
graphs that IL Is stated in Cape Town
papers that Jameson, White and Will
loughby We're lodged In the Pretoria Jail.
Gray and Coventry of the British South
Africa Company are among the wounded.
A deputation of merchants interested
in the South African trade to-day visited
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain i'm con-
nection with the troubles in the Trans
vaal. Replying to the representations
made to him by the deputation. Mr.. Cham
berlain said that the probability of fur
ther disturbances was remote. The gov
ernment, he added sympathized with the
undoubted grievances of the Uitlanders.
Sill, he hoped that friendly representa-
tions to the Transvaal government would
be successful. Referring to the invasion
to the TranSVaal by DIR. Jameson, he said
the government had done its duty and
nothing more. The government would ad-
here to its obligations under the conven-
ton of 1884 and would uphold that con-
vention in all its provisions. From this
position nothing had occurred to induce
the government to recede
The government has received the fol-
lowing dispatch. from Cape Town, dated
noon to-day: Jameson surrendered at 2
O'clock in the afternoon of Jan. 2 The
actual fighting lasted from 3 o'clock in
the AFTERNOON OF Jan, 4 until II o'clock al
night. Jameson made three attacks The
men behaved in the most gallant manner.
The Beers attacked the angle OF
Jamesons force and had a fire on his
front apd flank"
In response to a query from the colonial
office, Sir Walter Heley-Hutchinson, gov
ernor of Natal, has sent dispatch con-
firming the main facts of DR.. Jameson 8
defeat. He adds that the Beers who op-
posed DR.. Jameson's force numbered
about 800. They occupied a strong posi-
ton. Two battles were fought. The gov
ernor also sends extracts from newspaper
kilograms, which were confused and con-
Trajectory. The main points deductable
from these dispatches are that DIR. Jane
son arrived near Krugersdorp on Dec 81
and attacked the Beers on the day follow
ing He was repulsed and then tried to
move by Ranfontein to Roodeport, but
was stopped at Doordrop. Heavy fight
ing took place on the afternoon of Jan.
2, at which time the TransvaaI state artil-
lery arrived. DIR. Jameson's force was
hopelessly outnumbered, and were almost
exhausted, having been without food for
three days. The horses too were help
lessly jaded. DR.. Jameson yielded after
sustaining a loss which, If the original
force was 800 men, amounted to 2iO kilied
The st. James Gazette says that the
German emperors gratutious insult to
England IN the message or Congra tulatiOn
sent by him to President Kruger furnish
ed another argument in favor of Great
Britain pushing on the work of increas-
ing and strengthening her ornaments
The Globe says: "It is a profound mis-
take TO imagine that England will not
fight whatever insults may be offered to
her. British passion is steadily rising
and the solicitude of the ministers is to
prevent premature outbreak"
1t is understood here that the scarcity
of news from the Transvaal is due to the
fact that the British government is ex-
ercising rigorous censorship over all, and
especially press and private messages. Oc-
casionaly a private message filters
through. One received to-day says Pres
ident Kruger has declared his willingness
TO make a satisfactory concession to the
demands of the Utlanders.
Another dispatch gives credit to the
Cape Times, published In Cape Town, for
the assertion that in the battle between
the Beers and the force headed by Dr.
Jameson, the former were a great deal
more numerous than the latter DIP
jameson and $50 of his followers, the pa
per says, were taken prisoners and con-
Quoted to johannesburg. DR.. Jameson
WAS not wounded.
The latest reports says that eighty of
DR.. Jameson's followers were killed The
excitement in Johannesburg is subsid-
ing, and the citizens are dsarming.