The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-05

Under Trying observation-disclosures
the Disaster to Jameson's Expedition
Merchants Wait on Chamberlain.
| London, Jan. 4.-The colonial office
received dispatch from Johannesburg
at o'clock this morning saying that al
was quiet there.
| An official dispatch received at the
| colonial office from Sir Hercules Robin
| son, governor of Cape Colony says:
Sir Jacob Dewitt, British agent at
Pretoria, wires:
Everything is quiet and no further
serious disturbances will occur. A dep
utatiOn from the johannesburg reform
committee came over yesterday giving
guarantees to keep the peace and main
tain order. | waited upon President
Kruger and Informed him of the guar
antees. He gave me assurance, pend
ing your arrival that if johannesburg
people keep quiet and commit no hos
tile acts or in any way break the laws
of the country, johannesburg will not
be mOlested or surrounded by the Bur-
CHER forces. The deputa ton pledged
the committee TO preserve peace and or
der. / take this opportunity of tes1t5-
flying in the strongest manner to the
great moderation and forbearance of
the government of Transvaal under ex-
ceptionally trying circumstances. Their
attitude toward myself was every thing
that / could wish"
'>PrisOners have just arrived. Cas-
ualtiss on their side are said to be Sc
we're and on the side of the burghers
very slight.
L Il II
Another dispatch from Robinson, TO
Chamberlain, reads:
Dewitt writes that Jameson's wound
ed number over thirty. They are all at
Krugerdorf and attended by doctors.
enty, but no reliable information is
o5tainable. They are still being pick
ed upon the battlefield and buried
Capetown papers state that DR.. jam
eson, Sir Charles Willoughby and Cap
tain White. brother of Lord Annually.
are lodged in Pretoria Jail. Gray and
Coventry of the Bechmanaland police
and tine brother of the earl of Coventry
are wounded. The Beers captured
about fifty prisoners
Later in the day a dispatch was re-
ceiyed at the colonial Office from Cape
Town dated noon today giving details
of the invasion of the Transvaal by
Jameson. There is no doubt that jam
eson yielded after he had lost at least
twenty-edgpt men. The battle lasted
from in the afternoon until IL o'clock
in the night. Jameson led the three
principal attacks and his men disting-
uished themselves with great gallantry
A private and reliable telegram re-
ceived this afternoon from Pretoria
says that President Kruger has declar-
ed that he is willing to make satisfac-
tory concessions to the foreign popula-
ton of Transvaal, whose demands for
in view of the fact that
they contribute practically the whole
revenue Of the republic, led to the Ill
feeling which resulted in Jameson's
raid.
CHAMBERLAIN WAITED ON.
A large deputation of merchants and
others interested in South African mat
tiers called at the colonial office this
evening for the purpose of urging the
government to take steps providing for
the protection of their friends and rel
atives. Right Hon. Joseph Chamber
lain, secretary of state for the colonies.
replied to the representations made by
the members of the delegation, saying
that so far as could be seen, further
were improbable. The
British government,he said, sympathiz- !
ed with the undoubted grievances of !
the UitlanderS. Regarding the action |
taken by the government in the matter
Of the sudden advance of DR.. Jameson, |
he said that the government had done !
it's full duty. More than this it could |
not be claimed that the government |
should have done. Before it was pos
sible for any representations to have |
been made from any quarter, they act- !
ed in the most energetic fashion i'm |
aginable trying to stop the raid and ITO |
avert further mischief. |
Mr.. Chamberlain said In conclusion |
that the ministers of the government |
ITO adhere to their obliga tons |
under the convention of 1884. and that |
they would con tinue to uphold that con- |
ventiOn and all its provisions. From |
this position nothing that has occur |
red could possibly induce them 10 re-
cede.