The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-05
THE DEFEAT OF JAMESON.
Eighty of the British Troops Killed
aud $50 Wounded

London, Jan 4--Ine colonial cfSce re-
cefved a dispatch from Johannesburg at
o'clock this morning. Saying all S now
quiet there. An Official 1lspatch from the
governor Of Cape Colony says: SIR Jacob
Dewitt British agent A. Pretoria. wires
that everything s quiet, and that no fur
the- serious Disturbances NIL occur A
oeputation from the johannesburg reform
COMMITTEES came over yesterday evening.
giving guarantees TO keep the peace AMI
maintain order and waited upon President
krueger and informed hiTn % the guaran-
tee he gave M assurance that pending
your arrival Il the J0hanneshurr peapla
kept quiet and commit no h0stiIitses or in
aHy way break the Laws Of the country.
johannesburg VII not he moieste1 or sur
rounded ~ the hurgher forces The dep
utation was highly grateful for this as
surance,. and pledged the committee 70
preserve peace and order. / take this op-
portunty Of testfsying n d strong manner
10 the great moderation and forhearance
q the government Of the Transy aaI under
exceptionally trying circumstance. Their
attitude tovs ara myself was everything 1
could wish. The prisoners have just ar
rived The casualties on their side are
said 10 be severe. and on the side Of the
burgners very slight
Another dispatch from Sir Hercules Rob
inson TO Mr. Chamberlain reads. Dewitt
writes that Jameson's wounded nurnoer
over thirty. They are ali At kruegersiorf
and attended By doctors. Their names and
details cannot be given. The number killed
IS estimated al seventy, but no reliable in
formation IS obtainable. Bodies are still
being picked up on the battlefield and
buried Cape Town papers state that Dr.
jameson. Sir Charles WEioughby and
Capt. White. brother Of Lord Annually. are
lodged TN the Pretoria jail. Coventry. OF
the Bechuanaland police, and brother Of
the Earl Of Coventry. are wounded. The
Beers captured about SO prisoners.
Later dispatches received at the colonial
office from Cape Town, dated al noon to-
day. give the following details OF the in
vassOn Of the Transvaal by Or. jameson. as
gathered from the local press. There Is no
doubt that Or. Jameson yielded after he
had lost at least twenty-eight men. The
hattie lasted from in the afternoon until
il at night. Jameson led the three pEin-
cipal attacks, and his men distinguished
themselves by great gauantry. The Boer
position was a right-angled one. Jameson
attacked IL at one point. and in entering
the angle had the fire of the Beers on the
front and TANKS. The Beers were much
superior in numbers, and their position
unassailable. DF. Jameson and $50 men
were taken prisoners at Kruegersdorf. and
afterward sent TO Pretoria. DR.. jameson
was not wounded. The Cape Times states
that eighty men OF the British Chartered
is quieting down, and the people dsarm
ing. The stock exchange here opened With
a better tendency today, and an all-around
rise in the price of Katfirs.
\ private ana reliable telegram received
here this afternoon from Pretoria says
President Kruger has declared that he is
willing 10 make satisfactory concessions
TO the Uitlanders or foreign population of
the Transvaal. whose demons tration for
representation, in view of the fact that
they contributed practically the whole rev
enue OF the republic, led TO the ill-feelins
which resulted In DR.. Jameson's raid.
New York. Jan. 4.-The central cable
office of the Western Union Telegraph
Co. today sent out the following notice:
johannesburg, Transvaal Jan. 3.-The
government lines give notice that they
must refuse to accept code kilograms
from the public. Messages III code, there
fore, will not be accepted
The colonial office has just received the
following telegram sent by Sir Walter
Francis Hely Hutchinson. X. G.. NJ O.. to
Mr.. Chamberlain. secretary OF state for
the colonies. and dated January T. iSg6:
Press accounts state that on the evening
of December 81 Or. Jameson arrived in
the vicinity Of kUuegersdorf. The next
morning he attacked the Beers, who were
entrenched in a strong position. The Beers
numbered !. 800. DR. Jameson was repulsed.
but tried 10 move by Randfonte into Roode-
port. and was stopped at Dor.nkOp. On
the afternoon of January heavy lighting
took place. and the artillery came up. DR..
Jameson was outnumbered. and some of
his men were nearly starved many OF
them having been without food for three
days. Their horses were exhausted. AMI
they were forced 90 surrender Dr. Jane
son lost eighty men killed. beside the