The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-28
NIT its demands to an indemnity for

! limit its demands to an indemnity for
the Jameson raid.
The president points to the neces-
sity of his presence at the meeting of
the volksraad as an objection to his
visiting England and suggests that
matters should not be pressed now
England can, however, he says, still
facilitate the visit by accepting the
basis of discussion which the president
has already proposed. He frankly adj
mits that his
ADMINISTRATION IS IMPROv-
ABLE
and that the government is not always
! in the right, but he takes objection to
the offer of guarantee against for
elgn attacks. This was never asked
ne says, and article four of the con-
vention was unnecessary for that pur-
pose.
He emphasizes the view that with
patience and forbearance the OBJ
stacles presented by both sides to
the difficulty may yet be overcome. He
expresses the hope that wounded feel
ings will be healed and friendly rela-
tions restored
The Times has a dispatch from
Buluwayo, dated April 25. which says:
'Today's fight was visible from the
town, and was the most determined
that has yet occurred. 1t caused great
excitement. The Matabeles evidently
intended to crush the whites and to
attack the town. The whites were
equally determined to break them.
A body of 500 Matabeles came with
In half a mile of the town and cut off
some of the pickets, killing two. Maxim
guns were placed upon the roofs of the
buildings to play upon them. The
FIGHTING WAS DESPERATE
and the enemy retired in disorder amid
q heavy rifle fire. The friendly Mata-
beles completed the rout of the enemy
with assegais and axes.
Captain MacFarlane and Admins
TRAITOR Dunn, who assisted in the fight,
complimented the troops, who were
greeted with wild cheers and the sing
ing of God Save the Queen while re-
turning here"
A dispatch to the Times from Pal
pave dated Sunday says
Earl Grey. Captains White and
Straker and General Willoughby will
start for Buluwayo tonight Earl Grey
has had two long interviews with
friendly Chief Khama Through whose
country the road from Mafeking to
Buluwayo runs) Reports from per-
sons leaving Buluwayo
SHOULD BE SUSPECTED,
as the position is exaggerated to justi-
fy their departure. Earl Gray's ar
rival in Buluwayo will restore con-
fidence.
The Times also has a dispatch from
Capetown, which says:
The supply of grain and forage now
on the road are ample for both the re-
lief column and for Buluwayo.
Hon. Cecil Rhodes has ar-riI-ad on
the camp at Enkelborn, and he is
well. A staff officer has telegraphed
to the South Africa company from
Gwelo that everything has been looted
and burned except Carnegie's place at
Hope Fountain
Five hundred of the rebels were
Killed in the Umguza battle. The
Maxim gun has fired 1000 rounds, and
the Hotchkiss gun $50 shells. The vic
tory was most decisive and breaks up
the rebel circle in that direction"
Inc Daily Telegraph has a Pretoria
dispatch which SAYS:
1t is reported that an Arrangement
has been arrived at by which the rank
and file of the reform committee will
pay nominal fine. The leaders will
receive a severe penalty but it will not
go beyond nominal fine and short
confinement in prison."
The Daily Telegraph says in an edf-
torial:
1T viii not make any difference
whether President Kruger comes or
not 1t is the Beers loss, not ours.
President Kruger knows that the real
effect of the Transvaal trouble will be
10 make sooner or later a British
south African empire. having no more
than the Dutch
The Times, commenting in an edi-
torial upon President Krueger's re-
ply. suggests that England also can
leave matters as they are including the
indemnity which must be claimed. if
at all, from the chartered South Afri-
can company.