The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-06
DID NOT AID JAMESON.
Uftlanders of Johannesburg Failed to
Give Promised Support.

Tive PROMISED support.
LONDON, Jan. 6-The belief has been ex-
pressed here that the expedition of DR..
Jameson into the Transvaal involved an I'M
derstanding that there was to be upris-
ing of the Uitlanders in Johannesburg.
The abstention of johannesburg from
taking part in the fight at Krugersdorp,
where DR.. Jameson met his disastrous re-
verse, is partly explained by cablegrams
received to-day, dated Dec. 80. which was
the day before Dr. Jameson's start, stating
that President Kruger had received depu-
tation of the aggrieved residents
and that he had made them prom
Uses that he would take off the
duties on food stuffs and would support
equal subsidies for the schools Of all Ian
guages. He would also, he said. advocate
the desired change in the franchise. This
seems to have fully satisfied the Uitland-
ers, and it is asserted that the leading men
of all nationalities were combining in an
active endeavor to circumvent the agita-
ton which it was understood was being
promoted by certain capitalists with q
view to promoting a collision with the au-
thorities and thus to establish a cause for
imperial intervention and to give the con-
splrators chance to gobble rich coun-
try.
John Burns, member of Parliament in
addressing a labor meeting tonight said
that he believed the DR.. Jameson raid was
a premediated and put UP job, and that
he wished the Queen would keep her ugly
duckling of relative Oh the continent in
order, although he did not believe that
Emperor William represented the German
people in the matter. The government, he
said, should send Lord Roberts with fifteen
thousand ment to sequester all rights en-
joyed by the chartered company.
All the newspapers this morning congratu-
late Colonial Secretary Chamberlain on his
concise statement of the unfinching policy
Of the government in the Transvaal. which
is regarded as a reply to Emperor William s
telegram to President Kruger. The Times
voices the general opinion in saying: 1--WE
shall not alter our reading of our own trea-
ties or relinquish our historical claims at
the bidding of the German Emperor, nor
shall we fail to maintain them,
IL the necessity is forced on us,
by sacrifices similar to those upon which
they were founded" The Times continues
IF the Venezuela difficulty encouraged Ger
many to fout England the very different
reception given her interference from that
accorded our American kinsmen may serve
as a warning. The point where serious
consequences will follow is not far off"
special dispatch from Berlin gives an
interview with DIR. w. j. Leyds, Secretary
of State of the Transvaal, in which he said
that he could not express his opinion on
| the probability of a German protectorate
| being established in the Transvaal as nego-
| tiations were still proceeding.
A Vienna dispatch 10 the Daily Tele-
| graph says that ii is reported there that
| Prince Hatzfeldt, the German ambassador
| in London, has informed Lord Salisbury
hat NJ
| British suzerainty over Transvaal, and
| that it is believed that Austria supports
| Germany in this view.
Mr.. Chamberlain has received dispatch
| from Governor Sir Hercules Robinson, al
| Pretoria, at 4 o'clock Sunday morning, re-
| porting that Hon. Charles Coventry "a cap
| tain in the Bechuanaland police and the
| brother of the Earl of Coventry has died
| of his wounds.