The herald., 1896-01-13

the royal family, especially to the queen.
1t is understood the difficulty over the
manner of the disposal of DR.. Jameson's
followers was settled on Saturday. the
Transvaal government simply stipulafing
that the rank and file of Jameson's eXpe-
dition should be deported from south
Africa. According to the Transvaal law,
the punishment for treason is banishme ent
and large fine. 1t is not believed here
that President Kruger has demanded the
abrogation of the London convention,
which provides for the suzerainty of Great
Britain over the Transvaah as the price of
sparing DIR. Jameson's life.
A dispatch received from sources SYM
pathetic with the Transvaal government,
in Johaunesberg tonight. asserts the plot
for Jarneson's raid and the coincident up
rising of the Uitlanders was the most
ahameful in history. The blackest part of
tie plot, the dispatch asserts. was the in
tel1tion of the agents of the chartered
Sot lth African company to set loose the
saw ages to invade the Transyaal from all
poir is and to kill every white man. IT. had
been engaged that all over South Africa
PROV sional stations should be erected on
the Ii les of the route and the points had
been fixed. The object to destroy
Pretoria and to present England with a
fait ac compli before any interference
could r, ,acb them. Sketches of Pretoria
and of IL ie Rand, made by military men,
have, l. isa said, been seized.
This story is denounced in London as a
gross exag geration.
CECIL RHODES TALKS
NEW YoR,x, Jan. 1.-THE World will
publish the Following dispatches from Ce-
ell Rhodes. under date of Cape Town, JAN
uary 18th:
,sThe position, is that within the Trans
vaal there are 10000 new comers and an
old population of $4,000. With the de-
velopment of the gold industry to fuller
extent the new comers will am cunt 10
800, 1000 in five years. eventually 10 mill
ion, probably more. From time to time
the position will be upset by the attempt
OF the new population to claim common
civil rights, which eventually they ertain-
ly must get. Craftsmanship shoul give
them some rights, as the present tate is
impossible for the new comers, VIII o own
more than half the soil of the rralisvaal
and nine-tenths of the wealth of the cOun-
try, The new males outnuTnber the
old five to one, and are composed large
ly of Americans, including The principal
managers. England is the only great pow
er in South Africa. She is now threa tened
with German interference which she is
bound to resent and resist. In thi she
should have Americas sympathy. Blood
is thicker than water. Americans above
all nations insist on civil rights In onib's in
dustries here at the Cape. In the Trans
vaal all mine managers are Ameri cans.
And yet we have the spectacle of the two
great English speaking nations of the
world almost on the verge of war about
some barren land in South America. .w'here-
as, working in perfect harmony, the peace
of the world would be secured"
KRUGER's PROCLAMATION
PRETORIA, Jan. ia proclamatio is
sued by President Kruger on Friday, a
brief mention of which was made in dis
patch from here, said that he long me dtat-
ed an alteration of the constitution, but
that that ne could not accede to uIlwar-
rantable demands. He had intended to
submit to the next session of the volksraad
law giving a municipality TO Joha nnes-
burg.
s.Dare do so,'' continued the proclAma-
ton, latter what has happened? l will
give the answer myself. l know there are
thousands in Johannesburg to whom can
with confidence entrust this. Let the Jo-
hannesburgers make 1t possible Tor the
government to appear before the volksraad
with the words Forget and for2ive." The
proclamation has created a profound SEN
sation.
REVIEW OF FORCES.
KREGERsDoRP, Jan. 11.-A review was
held today of 6OO0 burghers who have
been in the field. They were shown to be
a fine force, well mounted and armed and
in an animated state of mind. There 10 a
strong fee ing here against the Uitlanders,
but it is believed the burghers will be dis
banded on Monday.
ANOTHER ARREST.
CAPE Town, Jan. l2.-Charles Leonard,
chairman of the Transvaal National union,
was arrested here yesterday.
DISPOSAL OF PRISONERS
PREToPIA, Transvaal, Jan. 12.-The
rank and file of the prisoners who COM
posed DR.. Jameson's raiding party. have
started for Natal. DR.. Jameson and his
officers remain here, but it is expected that
they will leave shortly for England. A
large safe which consigned to one
Farrar, one of the imprisoned Rand lead
ers, was opened by the customs officers
and was found to contain 100000 re-
volvers and 1000 rounds of cartridges.
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES
JOHANNESBURG, Transvaal, Jan. H.
passport restrictions which were imposed
during the crisis have been removed and
further communicating has been stopped.
But the burghers are already under arms
and have been ordered to remain in the
vicinity of Johannesburg.
DIR. Jameson and his officers are still al
Pretoria. where sir Walter Hey-Rutchin-
son, governor of Natal, has arrived.
The high court has placed an injunction
upon all the bank balances and other prop
erty belonging TO those arrested for COM
plIcIty in the revolution.
MIR. Lefty. the correspondent OF Reuter-
News Agency, who was arrested here, as
previously reported, has been liberated.
He says the Beers treated him with the
greatest courtesy during the time of his
ihcarceration.
OBJECT TO PUBLICITY
LONDON, Jan. 13.-The Berlin CORE.
sponden the Times says:
The publicity given to the exchange oi
letters between the queen and emperor is
very unwelcome here. 1t is regarded as an
indiscreet attempt to make political capital
in the English interest out of family rela.
tions of the two courts. The substance oi
the two letters can only be a matter of sur
prise. The contents of the emperor's letter
may be inferred from the very concillatory
and reassuring words he addressed on the
following day on the occasion of the
funeral of Prince Alexander of Prussia
when he emphasized the unabated friend
illness of the English and German govern.
ments. Briefly. however, it is too early to
indulge in optimisms. President Kruger's
attitude may be better test of Germany q
real attitude than professions of amity.
If President Kruger proves obdurate il
y will be difficult to resist the conclusion thai
he has been allowed to count upon Ger
many's support. 1t must not be forgotten
that before DR., Jameson's coup the orgaT
of the German foreign Office urged Presi
dent Kruger to ignore the manifesto of the
National union of Johannesburg. DR.. Jam
eson's ill-starred enterprise simply gave
Germany an opportunity to shift hel