The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-04
SOUTH AFRICAS SNRMISH.
JAMESON TO BE TRIED AND HIS
FOLLOWERS SET FREE.

pany's Men May Attempt-Presidenf
Kruger Apt 10 Have the United
support of Germany and France.
London, Jan. "A cable dispatch is
reported to have been received by a
commercial firm in London stating that
DIR. jameson will be tried by a Boer court
martial, and his followers, who are now
prisoners, released.
The Scotch Black Watch regiment
which is. now at Mafeking, in Bechuana-
land. will stop the advance of the Brit
ish South Africa Company's men from
Buluwayo, and if they insist upon ad-
vancing they will be fired upon by the
British troops.
The Globe and the Pail Mall Gazette
concur in the opinion that Mr. Chamber
lain. by issuing proclamations in Jo-
hannesburg forbidding English subjects
to join DR.. Jameson, is thereby bound to
demand that President Kruger summari-
ly redress the grievances of the UitlGnd-
ers.
]. B. Robinson, the richest of the South
African millionaires, the largest employer
of labor in the Rands, and half owner of
the yacht Valkyrie III, declares in an in
terview published in the st. James Ga
zette that DR.. Jameson's movement was
wholly a British South Africa Comma
ny's invasion of the Transvaal
The birmingham Post the organ of
Mr.. Chamberlain, secretary of state for
the colonies, says that despite the vtardy
qlsaYoWal OF DR.. JamesOns action by the
British South Africa Company il may
sun be necessary that the company shall
forfeit its charter
The Globe publishes a news agency
dspatch from Berlin, which says that
Or. Legs, secretary of state of the South
AIrlcan republic, who is now in Berlin,
has communicated to the emperor a di-
rect appeal from President Kruger ask
ing the support of Germany
IL is rumored, the dispatch says, that
tI6 the :, united u ACTION of France. and Ger
many IN the Transyaal is projected.
. The fact that the telegraph wires in
south Africa have been devoted TO gov
ernment work since the trouble in the
Iransvaal occurred, and the fact that
no private cable messages have been re-
ceiVed from South Africa for four DAYS
has led to all kinds Of rumors being put
IN circulation regarding the situation in
the South African republic and the fate
OF the British invaders of that country
one of these reports has it that DR.. Jane
son as been shot by his captors and an
other than the Uitlanders in Johannesburg
have risen against the Boer government
and given the city over to flames. What
truth there is in these stories it is of
course, impossible now to ascertain. oW-
ing to the government using the wires
but it is judged that most, if not all Of
gendered by the uncertainty regarding
the fate that the Beers slow to anger
but strong in wrath, may have meted
out to the ill-advised Englishmen, who
attempted to compel the Beers to grant
concessions by. force of arms.
1t may be, however, that the report
Of the shooting of DR.. Jameson is true.
If he has been tried by court martial
and convicted there is scarcely a doubt
that execution would promptly follow the
passing of the sentence.
A izTan fn1a fn In Dali Toll %.
from Rome says that the German govern
ment will undertake the protection of the
Italian miners in the Transvaal.
Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett NJ. p an
nounces that he has received informa-
ton that German sailors have landed at
Delagoa bay.
The Daily News will tomorrow say
that it sees nothing hostile to Great Bril-
tain in the words of Emperor William ad-
dressed to the President of the South Ar
rican republic. 1t adds that they are not
agreeable reading for Englshmen, but
they will impress some minds sorely need
ing such impression that the encourage
ment of flibusters IS playing with edged
tools.
The Post draws the deduction from the
emperor's telegram that his majesty con-
siders a war with Great Britain within
the limits of possibility and that he has
settled the preliminaries with a view
thereto. The Post advises Great Britain
to concentrate a fleet by recalling the
Mediterranean squadron now in the Le-
want to join the channel squadron.
The Standard will tomorrow say that
the Emperor Williams message is a
strikingly unfriendly act. 1t raises the
presumption that he wishes to either chal-
lenge or destroy British suzerainty in the
more locus standi in the TransVaal than
Great Britain has in Havana. Great Brit
ain cannot and will not tolerate the slight
est interference between the Transyaal
and herself" The paper will dilate upon
German hostility to Great Britain every
where and avows the latter's desire for
friendship. 1t then issues a warning, say
ing: If Germany insists upon trespaSSing
upon our rights we are we able to defend
them. We are a peaceable people, but if
others will not permit us to remain in
peace, we are capable of accepting the
unwelcome ordeal with composure"
The Chronicle will say: THE empe-
ror's message comes near bringing an
offer of armed assistance. We hope and
believe that President Kruger will take
no notice of it. The emperor has nothing
to do with this business, which Mr.. Cham
berlain is trying to settle on lines of per-
feet justice"
message is of very grave import. All the
available evidence shows that he intend
ed to give unqualified recognition to the
Transvaal as an Independent state"
The paper asks whether il is really true,
as it appears, that Germany has gladly
seized the opportunity to humiliate Eng
land or to win cheap applause for an easy
bit of diplomatic chauvinism, and adds:
'She may rest assured that no demon
strations of this kind will induce Great
Britain to depart from a position which
she has deliberately assumed and which
she is convinced it is her good right to
maintain"
Paris. Jan. 3-The Paris press is jubi-
liant over the defeat of DR.. Jameson
and his followers by the Beers near Jo-
hannesburg The Figaro, in an article
u'lder the caption "Will Cecil Rhodes
Remain Premier Of Cape Colony?" says:
"How President Kruger must laugh at
the result and how abundantly justified
he is in doing So.
The Gaulois. says: "The Beers merit
the public esteem which their grand vic
tory has gained for them by showing
that they are as wise and liberal in their
triumph as they are energetic in the hour
of danger.
The Rappel says that Germany, France
and Russia are in accord in regard to the
Transvaal, and asks what England will
do in the circumstances. Having the
United States already on her hands," the
paper asks, will she dare to defy the mil
itary powers of Europe?'
The I4anterne says: Great Britain's
contention that foreign powers have no
right to intervene in the Transvaal Is
neither more nor less than the application
of the Monroe doctrine pure and simple
TO her own advantage"
Berlin. Jan. 3.-The emperor has sent
the following cable to Paul Kruger. pres
fdent of the South African Republics II
express my sincere CONGRATULATIONS that