The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
During the Encounter Many of
the Invaders Followers
Were Killed.
FIVE HUNDRED MEN CAPTURED
The Leaders, White and Willoughby,
Are Lodged in Jail at
Pretoria.

LONDON, Enc, Jan. An response to
an inquiry from the Colonial Office Sir
Walter Hely- Hutchinson, Governor of
Natal, hss sent a dispatch concerning the
plain facts of Jameson s defeat. He adds
that the Beers who opposed Jameson's s
force numbered about 300. They occu-
pied q strong position. Two battles were
fought.
The Governor also sends extracts from
newspaper kilograms which are confused
and contradictory. The main points de-
ducible from these dispatches are that
DR.. Jameson arrived near Krugersdorp on
December 81 and attacked the Beers on
the day following. He was repulsed and
then tried to move by Randfontein to
Roodeport, but was stopped at Doorkop.
Heavy fighting took place on the after
noon OF January ,, at which time the
Transyaal State Artillery arrived. DR..
Jameson's force was hopelessly outnum-
bered and were almost exhausted, having
been without food for three days. The
horses. too, were helplessly jaded.
DR.. Jameson yielded after sustaining a
loss, which, if the original force was 800
men, amounted to 240 killed and wounded
Joseph Chamberlain. Secretary of State
for the Colonies, received at o'clock this
morning a cablegram from Sir II. G. Rob
inson, Governor OF the Cape Colony, say
ing:
4 received the following telegram from
Sir Jacobus A. Dewet, British agent at Pre-
toria, at O'Clock last evening: Every
thing IS quiet now; further disturbances
viii not occur. A deputation from the
TNfr r1T1 ech rEFp
last evening, giving a guarantee of peace.
I informed President Kruger Of that guar
antee, and he assured me. pending Gov
ernor RObinson's arrival, that if the people
of Johannesburg were quiet and did not
commit any hostile acts Johannes
burg would not be surrounded or molested
by the burgher forces. The deputation
was highly pleased with this assurance.
1t gave pledge that the reform commit
tee would preserve order
agent Dewet proceeds to say: I testify
in the strongest manner to the great
moderation and forbearance of the Gov
ernment of the Transvaal under the ex-
ceptional and trying circumstances. The
prisoners have just arrived. Their casual
ties are stated TO have been severe. Those
OF the burghers were slight
Governor Robinson has telegraphed to
Mr. Chamberlain that of the force led into
the Transvaal by DR.. Jameson, 70 were
killed, 30 were injured and 800 were taken
prisoners. He also telegraphs that it is
said in the Cape Town papers that
Jameson, White and Willoughby are
lodged in the Pretoria jail. Gray and
Coventry, of the British South Africa
Company, are among the wounded. Sir
J. A. Dewet, the British agent at Pretoria,
telegraphs that the wounded of DR..
Jameson's forces number over thirty. All
of them are at Krugersburg, and are being
cared for by doctors. He SAYS that seventy
odd were killed, but the exact number
cannot be stated now, as BODIES are still
being picked up off the field and buried.
The Government has received the fol-
lowing dispatch from Cape Town, dated
at noon to-day:
Jameson surrendered at 2 o'clock on
the afternoon of the Cd inst. The actual
fighting lasted from O'Clock in the after
noon OF the 1st until IL at night Jameson
made three attacks. The men behaved IN
the most gallant manner. The Beers at
tackled the angle of Jamesou's forces and
had fire on his front and flank"
A private message received to-day saws
that President Kruger of the South A fri
can republic has declared his willingness
to make satisfactory concession to the
demands of the Uitlanders. The latest
reports say that eighty of Jameson's fol-
lowers were killed. The excitement in
Johannesburg is subsiding and the citi-
zens are disarming.
a deputation of merchants interested
in the South African trade to-day visited
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain in con-
nectlon with the troubles IN the
Transvaal. Replying to the represen-
tations made to him by the depu-
tation Mr.. Chamberlain said that the
probability of further disturbances was
remote. The Government, he added. sym-
pathized with the undoubted grievances of
the Uitlanders, though what had recently
occurred made the situation difficult Still
he hoped that friendly representations to
the Transvaal Government would be sue
cessful.
Referring to the invasion of the Trans
Vaal by DR.. Jameson he said the Govern
ment had done its duty and nothing more
The Government would adhere to its obli-
cations under the convention of 1884 and
would uphold that convention in all its
provisions. From this position nothing
had occurred to induce the Government to
recede.
The Berlin correspondent of the Central
News claims to have authority for the
statement that negotiations are in progress
between several powers relative to the
taking Of joint steps, especially in the
event OF the Transvaal, repudiating the
Anglo-Boer convention. The correspond
ent ADDS that the Germans interested
Wlll claim damages from the telegraph
company for blocking German dispatches.
Inc St. James Gazette says that the