The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-03
JAMESON vANQUIsHED.
The Doughty Doctor Disoteys Orders, Attacks
the Beers and Is Forced TO Surrender. ~ Il;
he REFUSES 70 RETURN AS ORDERED.
Is Given "a saiutory lesson by sta
h"ers' and Taken prisone--Thci
hritish African Company Assume
ignorance or TheIr Agents Acsienl
Receives IA Deserved RcpuIse.

London. Jan. "a dispatch from,
Johannesburg. South Africa, dated De.
cember 30th. says the people there nreI
greatly excited. Numbers of Beers sre.l
to ht seen riding through the strcetsj
which adds greatly to the public exl
a performance of Othello waai
given ON December SOth, at thai
standard hcatre, In Johannesburg.
Wn'ch WI y was crowded with people
rlaycd "Vol<slicd," the national air -ns
the fransvaal, whercat the audiencs|
arawned the music with gronns andl
.i' misSSS' fhc orchestra then PLAYED.
YOU, save the Queen" when the peo-(
pie rose and chcercd. - |
mass meeting of Australia roe, /
uehlS oi Johannesburg has been heldl
~ Wnich the chairman proposed thstl
iniahiry and mounted companies bel
raised 10 resist the Beers
The Eall Mall Gazette asserts +bo+ IL
one thousand armed men. who bn~a
pccn In readiness at Buluwaya toI
march into the Transvaal. are probo hIv
n, nnW en- route for that territory. The
Gn, nl lhe British South Africa
,Hs to consider the dispatch sent tv
UT. Chamberlain, ordering the irnma|
nlhte disavowal by the company Of nny
HH,ioWicusc H,',, OF, or responsibility for DR..
JameSon's act in lcatlintr an ,,.,,,aI1 -
| OF men into the Trunsva.,I oN'i
me directors themselves profess to ha
eh;FeiS without knowledge of .Jamess
on'S movement - !" "eiiee- is1e,-S
ine oi;r advises Mr. Chamberlain to
| africa Company. Tho Ouenn ba asS,..
! uered inc Duke OF Fife husband Or ha,r.
granddaughter. to Withdraw fron, the
| nlrectofy of the British South Arrtcn
| Company. ''.i ~ - ~ ~
The dispatch received at the Fora, ~, ~
once announcing that an eng, pro,,,aI,t
| hu nhu taken placs between DR. Janoesonis
| iorce and the Beers, and that tho forT,asa
.., .,u neen compelled to surrender, was
ish agent at Pretoria. - 2.
J., nn io!iowing dispatch was received
inte ;" thlS evening from Sir Hercules Rob
'"sGn' Governor of Cape Colony: r
mIape Town Jan. I'd, S:25' p. m.-Ml
,niios vnscnSer NE overlook DR.. jameson. ten
imiles the other side of the EIans river.
| me messenger brought back n verbal
message that the dispatch received Nv
l'f. Jameson would be attended to. Tho
lorce was saddiins up. and at once pro-
cceded eastward DR. Jameson tb,,e
received and disregartled both mcssa srea
or Jacobus Dewet. the British agent
nl Pretoria. telcgraphs this mornfne.
mat 1t would have been impossible for
MN 10 nave gone to DR.. Jameson. II It
mad been possible his mission would
nave been futile, as the lighting COM
msnced at o'clock yesterday morning. %,
The messenger referred TO By Sir Her.
cuics Robinson was one who was sent
10 Dr. Jameson with orders instr1IctinE,
the latter To return 10 British territoryi
and 10 abandon his aggressive move y
mcnt against the Boers.
| Cape Town. Jan. The Cape Times
has a dispatch from Pretoria, dated yes
tcrday, saying that the latest news fromj
krnEcrsdorp was TO the effect that there
had been hghing between the Beers and
the force led by DR.. Jameson. and thai
tn" laticr had suffered heavily.
The British agent ct Pretoria. tele-3
graphs und5! date Of yesterday saying
that he had seen Gen. Joubert COM
| nanding the Bocr forces, who reportet1
that DIR. Jameson had been driven FROM
| several positions. Twenty-Five BurghA
| erS wera wounded and twenty three.
prisoners We're taken. At that time no.
| force had moved out of JohannesbEre.a
to assist DR. Jameson. S8s
1t is reported that further British4
] South Africa Company force is beingE
mohilized for the purpose of enteringf
| the Transvnal A Katfir command" is
| forming on the Bechuanaland frontier
| of the Orange Free State with the OBJ
| iect of assisting the Beers should SUCH
assistance he needed fs,
y later dispatch from Pretoria says,
that DR.. jameson was surrounded by a.
large force Of Beers near Krugersdorfl
and was obliged to surrender.
Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary Of
State for the Colonies. has sent q dis-S
patch 10 Gov. Robinson. saying: .'1s
regret that DR.. Jameson's disobediencei
has led to deplorable loss of life DoE
your best to secure generous treatment
Of the prisoners and the wounded" !" SEs V