Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-11
THE TRANSvAAL TROUBLE.
England's Complete Isolation Demon
 atrated-Will There Be War;

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 strated-Will There Be War;
 London, Jan. 10.--The features today of the troubles growing out of Dr. Jameson's raid into the Transvaal are the practical refusal of the Uitlanders to surrender their arms and the arrest at Johannes burg of a number of members of the na- tional reform committee on the charge of high treason. Among the prisoners are several of the leading residents of Johannesburg, including Coloney Rhodes, brother of Cecil Rhodes, ex-prR minis ter of Cape Colony, who Is sail to be i'll at Cape Town. It is believed' ere that Cecil Rhodes will bring all his influence, which Is very powerful, to bear to secure the release of his brother. There is no single man who has done so much to de- velop South Africa as MT. Rhodes, and though in carrying out his plans he has made many enemies, it can be truthfully said that he is the most powerful man in that part of the world today. Behind him is a majority of the Afrikanders, and though he may have nominally re- tired from active participation in politics, the impression prevails that in any final settlement of the Transvaal question he will have to be taken into consideration. At present nothing is heard of his plans, even if he has formulated any, but those who know the man and the power he wields will not believe that the present trouble will cause him to diverge from the ambitious path which for years he has been hewing for himself He may be for the moment compelled to abide the issue of the present troubles, but that he will later again take hand in shaping the destinies of South Africa there can scarcely be doubt He has always been a man of action, not words His future policy will at once be decided upon, but will not be known until it is put .ir1o effect
 The arrest of the members of the na- tional reform committee does not cause any great anxiety regarding their fate, as 1t is generally believed that in no event will any severe punishment be in- f1icted upon them.
 The report that pr. Jameson had been released turned out to be premature. President Kruger, in reply to the mes sage of Queen Victoria, says that he in- tends to turn Dr. Jameson and the other English prisoners, who took part in the raid, over to the British government for punishment, but dispatch from Jo- hannesburg states that the surrender of al on the abrogation of the Anglo-Boer convention of 1884, which gives Great Britain suzerainty over the Trapsvaal. If such a condition as this is imposed by the Boers it is quite certain that Great Britain will never agree to 1t.
 To abrogate the convention now will be to acknowledge that the reported atti- tude of Emperor William anent the Transvaal is correct, and the temper of the English people today is not such as to allow the government to concede this, even were 1t disposed to do so. As mat ter of fact, the government will not make the slightest concession in the matter to Germany, but Is, prepared or preparing to maintain what 1t believes are its rights by force of arms if necessary.
 Never before has the isola tion of Great Britain been % completely driven home .n the minds of the Brit.sh people. Hith- erto they nave been acrtstomed to be- iieving that should England become em- brofled in a war with foreign power, she would find sympathy if not actual aid