The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-31
IN THE QUEENS D0M|N|0NS
Interest Revived in the Trans.
wal Invasion
JUSTIFICATION OF RHODES
Likely to Increase the Beers Distrust
Of England
Matters In Egypt Progressing Satisfactorily
to the British Military Authorities.
The Cretan Instruction
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
LONDON. May 30-(Copyright.1 1886.
The most interesting feature Of the week
has been an article in the Nineteenth
Century purporting to give the true
motive or reason for DIR. Jameson's raid
into the Transvaal and seeming to be
Cecil Rhodes plea in Justification. 1t
has in any case revived the South Afri-
can scandal and attracted a great deal
of attention. The author Of the article
Is Seymour Fort who was private secre-
tary of Sir Henry Broughan Loeb when
the latter was commissioner in South
Africa. Mr.. Fort declares that Cecil
Rhodes was determined to push the rev.
olutiOn, and learning that President
Kruger had entered into secret politi-
cal entente with Germany which pre-
sented such immediate and imminent
danger to the imperial and Afrikander
interests in South Africa, that Mr..
Rhodes resolved "at all hazards" to up
set the HOllander-Germ cabal. But
1t is claimed that he had no intention Of
overthrowing the South African repub
lic
Fort further asserts that the immedi-
ate object of the raid was to secure doc
umentary proofs Of the alliance between
the Transvaal and Germany. the neces-
cdTy uOCuIIleDtS, IL MAS DelleVeu, DelIS
in the possession of President Kruger at
Pretoria. Rhodes, 1t Is also asserted,
had abandoned in despair all attempts to
persuade President Kruger to cooperate
with the imperial Afrikander, after an
interview between them which took
place in 1894. which, 1t is alleged, con-
WINGED him of the Transvaal presidents
determination of hostility to Great
Britain.
The original plan Of the raid, Fort said.
was to capture Pretoria. Had that been
carried out, forts, ammunition and even
the town itself would be in the hands Of
the reformers in a single night. Every
detail was determined on in advance;
but at the last moment, 1t seems, the
nerve Of the Johannesbergers failed.
Fort contends that it was never in
tended to interfere with the liberty Of
President Kruger or of the officials of
the South African republic, and con-
cludes with pointing to the attitude of
Germany subsequent to the raid and to
the utterances. of the German press as
evidence of the close relations which ex-
listed between Pretoria and Berlin.
The address OF Col. Cecil Rhodes Che
was elected a colonel of volunteers) to
the British South African troops at
Pongo on Wednesday has also served to
revive the bitter memories of the Trans
vaal raid. He sketched his arrangements
for ending the rebellion, building forts
and raising the police force, etc.
But it is pointed out that these duties
do not belong to Cecil Rhodes but to
Gen. Sir Frederick Darlington, formerly
British commander of Gibralter, who
was recently appointed to the command
Of the British forces operating against
the insurgent Matabeles, and to Sir
Richard Martin, the newly appointed
administrator of the territory Of the
British Chartered South African COM
pany.
English newspapers remind Rhodes
that he returned to Matabeleland prt-
vate person and that he had no power
from the secretary of state for the colo
MES, as Mr. Joseph Chamberlain has an
nounced, ito move single police"
Consequently the speech Mr.. Rhodes
made at Pongo is likely to Increase the
distrust of the Beers by conveying to
them the impression that he has mill
tary administrative powers.
The dispatch to the Times from cairo
regarding the decision of the mixed
tribunal upon the appeals of the French
syndicate against the use of Egyptian
reserve fund for the expense or the
campaign up the Nile has caused de-
cidedly bad impression here. The Times
correspondent wired that 1t was an open
secret that the tribune had come to the
decision that the Egyptian government
1t is said, will be announced on Monday,
tention and evidently means that Great
funds necessary to push the expedition
forward
1t is true that the matter can be re-
ferred to the court of appeals but there
Is very little hope that the latter will re-
verse the decision of the mixed tribunal.
as it is more governed by political than
by judicial considerations, and France
has more representatives in the court Of
appeals than the other powers.
In the meanwhile the news from the
front Is very satisfactory to the British
military authorities.
Troops are advancing up the Nile
without any hindrances, and deserters
from the dervishes report that the ar
rival of British Indian troops at Suakim
has created strong impression in the
Soudan. as the dervishes 1t is said. now
anticipate combined advance from
Suakim and Akasbeh. The lShalifa is
said greatly to fear an attack upon the
Berbers. and Osman Digna is reported
to be greatly discouraged by his recent
defeat and to have advised the khalifa
that unless reinforced he intends to re-
tire still further from the Red sea.
The news of the troubles In the island
Of Crete causes much interest here. The
Cretans, 1t is said are determined not to
yield until their grievances are re-
dressed. Advices from Greece show
that the CretanS have numbers of SYM
pathizers among the Greeks and that
the latter are preparing to assist the in
surgents in Crete. Since the arrival of
the foreign warships at Canea there has
been a cessation of the disturbances in
that town. The Turkish government
has issued a denial that serioys dis
turbances have occurred, which, in view
of the wellknown facts in the case il
classed as absurd. The porte declares
that the whole affair is simply an in
cident provoked by the canvass of the
Russian consulate at Canea, who shot
an inoffensive Turk. A small ARRAY
the Turks add, followed and about
eighteen persons were killed or wound
ed on both sides. Order, the porte con-
tinues, is now restored. The Turkish
note. however, does not refer to the
garrison of Vamos, which is surround
ed by Cretan insurgents and which will
soon yield, while the preposterousness
of the remainder of the note Is shown in
the fact that eighteen battalions of
Turkish troops have been ordered to
Crete in order to reduce the insurgents
to submission by force Of arms.
1t is reported this evening that the
Greek government has objected to the
dispatch of further troops to the island
of Crete, and the ambassadors of the
powers at Constantinople are trying to
mediate in order to avoid further blood
shed.