The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-01

additional force of 500 men, but though
the men are available, arms, ammum-
ton and horses are wanting.
The whole of the country outside of
a radius of about twelve miles around
Buluwayo is in a state of open insur-
rection, and luire Matabeles and other
natives are fiocking 30 the Matopo
hills, where the son of the late King
I.obengula is said to have been raised
to his fathers rank, with much cere-
mony, preparatory to taking command
of the army of insurgent natives flock
ing to the hills from all parts. The
vicinity of Buiuwayo is kept clear OF
rebels by the white scouts, but 1T is be-
lieved that the natives are being kept
fully informed of all that is going on,
and nobody now doubts that the
ROOT OF THE TROUBLE
is at Prstoria, and that Berlin is kept
we'll informed regarding the progress
of the uprising.
Advices from the Transvaal show
that the work of preparing for war Is
being continued there night and day.
Gangs of men relieve each other at in
,tarvals in the work upon the armored
forts designed to protect Pretoria, the
plates for which have been furnished
by the Creusot works and the guns
by the great Krupp firm Of Germany
The drilling of artillery man unoer
German officers goes on openly every
day There is no longer any conceal
ment in the preparations being mace.
The foreign legion, composed afmosI
entirely of Germans, who have recently
entered the Transvaal. is organized.
This force will be mostly infantry and
artillery. the Beers being rslied upon
to furnish all the cavalry necessary.
THE GENERAL OPINION
expressed here is that the company OF
ficials and the British home govern
nent greatly underestimate the serl-
Gus state of affairs which prevails
here. This seems to be especially the
case with the British government, and
it would seem that the latter must pc
Intentionally or unintentionaliy mis-
led by the chartered company's OIL
Gals or by others.
In this connection it is reported that
Sir Hercules Robinson, the governor
of Cape Colony, seeing the approach
of the clouds, is DESTROYS of resigning
before the storm breaks, and there are
other officials who, rumor has it, would
like to do the same. In short, British
prestige in South Africa has been rude
~ shaken and the shaking, under en-
enlargement from Germany, is still
going on and the most energetic steps
are likely to be necessary in order to
enable Great Britain to maintain the
status quo which prevailed before the
Jameson raid. The full effects of the
great mistake are only beginning to be
felt and unless all indications are de-
ceiving the worst is yet to come.
IT LEAKED OUT.
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chartered company are even more
alarmed than current report has it. 1t
is understood that representations
have Just been made to Sir Hercules
Robinson regarding the extreme grav-
ity of the situation and requesting that
he ask for immediate reinforcements
Of regular troops from Great Britain
or India. He is said to have assured a
representative of the company that the
home government may be counted
upon TO meet any emergency and that
ddttfonal troops may be shortly ex-
pecfed -at Cape Town.
). Similar representations, it is admit
+ ted, were cabled to the officers of the
British chartered company in London
and an assuring message is understood
to have been received here from the
president, the Duke of Abercorn.
The news from the seat of the out
break in Matabele increases in gravity
ard details are coming to hand of the
failure of the forces dispatched against
the natives to gain a substantial adj
vantage over them. The rebellion is
spreading, and the inadequacy of the
present force in its equipment to quell
1T is admitted.
Tt is learned that five white men, in
Guiding Messrs. Cass, Hanley and Bur
fr,.d h
forty miles northeast of Buluwayo A
patrol force which was sent to the
relief of hyatt found that the place
IVES too hot to hold and they were
compelled to retreat. F. C. Selous the
great hunter and campaigner, whose
farm was attacked last week, and
who led raid into the Mattoppo hills,
Threatening Buluwayo, in the east, has
also retired from the hills. The Ma
tabeles are assembled there in large
force and are well victualed. Selous
did not retire without trying the met
tie of the black men, and in his fight
with them some of his men were woun-
ded, while several of the Matabeles
were killed. After this Giffords pa
troll was obliged to evacuate the store
he had baien protecting and to- retreat.
The patrol alt GWelo has also been re-
pulsed, and Captain Pockock wounded.
The driving in of these forces will leave
the country practically bare to raids by
the Matabelas and increase the peril
of settlers in the extreme. The Rhod-
esia horse has been disbandad and the
Buluwayo field force has been substi-
tuted in the preparations which are
now making for a two months cam
paign.
The force dispatched against the
blacks in the Mattoppo hills reports
that it is not strong enough to dislodge
them, and asks for reinforcements.
President Kruger has assured the
British agent at Pretoria that no OBJ
stacles will be placed in the way Of
burghers desiring to be enrolled for
service in Rhodesia.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain's lat
est dispatches to the Transvaal gov
eminent have arrived at Pretoria. Ib'is
alleged that they amount to an uiti-
matum to the Transvaal on the ques-
tons pending between the two govern
mentS.
Later advices received from Buluwayo
state the Matabeles have been defeated
in several skirmishes in various parts of
the country and that it is expected the
settlers who have laagered out will
shortly be relieved.
Are AIassirg.
LONDON, March S1.-secretary of
State for the Colonies Joseph Cham