Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-04
JUMPING ON SALISBURY
 For Not Treating the English People Fairly. THE CHRONICLES BIG SCOOP
 Has Caused the British Press to Moderate Its Views.
DIR. JAMESON WILL BE C0URT-MARTlALED
Emperor William and the French Seem De- lighted That the English Were De- feated by the Reconsideration
 Kruger Congratulated.

London, Jan. 3.-The Pail Mall Gazette says it has no reason to doubt that the dispatches which the Daily Chronicle quote contain the official unpublished correspondence exchanged by Great Brit ain and Venezuela between November, 1s4O, when Sir Robert Schomburgk was appointed to delimit the frontier of Brit ish Guiana, and April, 1s42, when Eng land removed the boundary posts set up by Sir Robert Schomburgk, are genuine The Gazette presumes that Secretary Ol- ney and President Cleveland knew of these letters. and asks why, then, Secre- tary Olney did not use them to refute Lord Salisburys second dispatch. Did he" the Gazette asks, deliberately pre- fer to pick a quarrel with Lord Sails bury?'
 E The St. James Gazette says: "The Brit ish people are not properly treated by the government when it is left to the enter prise of a newspaper to discover unpuo- lished official correspondence upon which war or peace may depend"
 MT. Chamberlain, when shown at the colonial office copy of the Chronicles accusation of cognizance on the part of the government of the unpublished cor respondence. declared that the charge was beneath contempt
 A cable dispatch is reported to have been received by a comercial firm here stating that pr. Jameson will be tried by a Boer court-martial and his follow CTS, who are now prisoners, released. The Scotch Black Watch regiment, which is now at Mafeking, in Bechauna- land, will stop the advance of the British South Africa company's men from Dula- wayo, and if they insist upon advancing they will be fired upon by the British troops.
 The Globe and Pall Mall Gazette con- cur in the opinion that MT. Chamberlain, by issuing proclamations in Johannes burg for the instruction of the English subjects to join Dr. Jameson. is thereby bound to demand that President Kruger summarily redress the grievances of the U,tlanders.
 MT. J. 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 interview published in the St. James Gazette. that Dr. Jame- sons movement was wholly British South African companys invasion Of the Transvaal.
 The Birmingham Post the organ of Mir. Chamberlain, secretary of state for the colonies, says that despite the tardy disavowal of Dr. Jameson's action by the British South African company 1t may still be necessary that the company shall forfeit it's charter.
 The Globe publishes a news agency dispatch from Berlin which says: Dr. I,eyd. secretary of state for the South African republic, who is now in Berlin, has communicated to the emperor di- rect appeal from President Kruger, ask ing the support of Germany. It Is ru mored. the dispatch says, that the united | action of France and Germany in the Transvaal is projected.
 The fact that the telegraph wires in south Africa have been devoted to gov- ernment work since the trouble in the Transvaal 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 Africa republic and the fate of the British invaders of that country. One of these reports has it that Dr. Jame- son has been shot by his captors and an- other that the Uitlanders in Johannes burg have risen against the Boer govern ment and given the city over to flames. What the truth Is it Is, of course, impos sible now to ascertain, owing to the gov ernment monopoly of the telegraph lines, but it is judged that most, if not ali of the reports, are based upon the fears engendered by the uncertainty regarding the fate that the Boers, slow to anger, but strong in wrath, may have meted out to the ill-advised and foolhardy English men who attempted to compel the BoerS to grant concessions by force of arms.
 It 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 doubt that execution would promptly follow the passage of the sentence.
 Sir Ellis Eshmead Bartlett, member of parliament, announces that he has re- ceived information that German sailors have landed at Delagaoa bay.