Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-02
Reputation of Jameson All Along
the Line.
PRANSVAAL INVASION TO CEASE
Action Taken bv the South African
Company Directors.
ANOTHER CHAMBERLAINNOTF

noticed that the operators were experience
ing a decided fcelirg of uneasiness, due TO
the serious news from the Transvaal Re-
public. "Kaffirs," otherwise South African
securities, and Charteres, the securities If
the British chartered companies, opened
3h lower. DeBeers opened 2h lower, Gold
Fields deferred, Sh lower; East Rands, 3h
lever.
Kaffirs, however, subsequently rallied on
the receipt of a Berlin dispatch saying that
DR.. Jameson and his expeditionary force
and six Maxim guns had arrived at Johan-
nesburg, and that he was in friendly COM
municaticn with President Kruger.
Consols dropped GIG. The Times cf
today asserts that Queen Victoria has
peremptorily ordered the Duke of Fife,
husband of Princess Louise of Wales, to
resign his dictatorship of the Chartered
British South Africa Company
Later In the day there was a decidedly
better feeling on the stock exchange. The
excitement caused by the recent events IN
the Transvaal Republic subsided, and "Kaf-
frs recovered to within IA to 3-4 of Tues
days prices.
Two failures were announced during the
day..
Another Statement by Mr.. Chamber
lain.
The secretary of state for the colonies,
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, has issued an
other statement regarding events in the
Transvaal. 1t Is as follows:
1.-THE high commissioner is leaving Cape
Town this afternoon for Pretoria to deal
with the situation in the furtherance of a
peaceful and satisfactory settlement, in
(signeO "CHAMBERLAIN."
The Chartered Company directors have
telegraphed to the managing director at
i'm To fvrovr vr,n1t1 feIN
inform DR.. Jameson that the company dis
sents from and objects to the action he
has taken, and requires him to return i'm
mediately to the company's lands.
The Duke of Fife denies that he has been
ordered by Queen Victoria to resign his di-
rectorship of the Chartered British South
African Company, and adds that he may
possibly issue a statement on the subject.
1t is stated that President Kruger has
telegraphed to Colonial Secretary Cham
berlain pledging his government that the
Beers shall temporarily adopt a passive at
titude toward Dr. Jameson's force it's
arrival outside Of johannesburg. An i'm
portant feature of this arrangement be-
tween Mr.. Chamberlain and President
Kruger is that all responsibility for hos
tility will rest with the Chartered South
Africa Company.
The following dispatch, received here, is
undated but it is presumed that 1t was
dication, however. that DR.. Jameson's
action was publicly known. 1t was dis
patched from Cape Town:
JOHANNESBURG, Transvaal.-German
spectators here have circulated a petition
to President Kruger assuring him Of loyal
support. but only twenty signatures were
obtained. This action has created an ex-
ceedingly bitter feeling against the Ger
mans. At mass meeting of Australians
here the chairman proposed to raise mount
ed and foot companies. The attendance st
the meeting sang God Save the Queen and
Rule, Britannia Feeling has been greatly
stirred by the appearance of a number Of
Beers riding about the streets. At the
Standard Theater on Saturday night, dur
ing the performance of Othello, the band
played a German Volksli. The music was
drowned by a. continuous torrent of groans,
hootings and hissings. The band then
played God Save the Queen and the au-
dience rose and cheered vociferously till
the last strein'
The Censure of DR.. Jameson.
The Times in an editorial thinks that
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain's censure
of DR.. Jameson for the invasion of the
Transvaal In the absence of the man who
has undeniably rendered great and distin-
gUished services to his country is some
what precpitate.
The Belfast Evening Telegraph publishes
private letter from Buluwayo, South
Africa, dated November 1, stating that
there was talk there even at that time of
the English seizing the Transvaal. and that
.
troops had gone south for that purpose
Under secret orders with ten guns and
many wagons.
The Berlin correspondent of the Times
says: '"The crisis is clearly endangering
the anglo-German relations. Public opn-
ion Is excited and angry, and without doubt
the government will interfere, because re-
lations have gradually arisen between the
Transvaal and Germany which have as
sumed, in the public mind almost the
shape of moral protectorate by Germany
over the Transvaal."
The Berlin correspondent of the Daily
news says: Il have reason to doubt the
correctness of the statement that Presi-
dent Kruger has offered Germany a pro-
tectorate over the TransvaaL Such step
would imply violation of conventions
with England"
The Times says that there is no authan-
tic information of any sort relative to
Transvaal in London beyond Mr.. Chamber
lain's statement, which has already been
cabled to the Associated Press.
In its financial article the Times thinks
that the outcome of the crisis in the Trans
vaal Is bound to be an improved adminis-
tration there, and that it behooves holders
of African shares to keep cool and not to
throw them away in a panic.
What the English Say.
dispatch dated Wednesday from Cape
Town to the Times strongly supports the
letter from the British residents of johann
nesburg, appealing for assistance to DIR.
Jameson, the substance of which was ca
bled yesterday morning to the Associated
Press and adds:
"The advice to fold their hands and
await the good pleasure of the kind
Kruger, who is yearning to admit the
Uitlanders to the franchise, if only they
will refrain from demanding it, is joke
which the lapse of years has deprived of
it's SAVIOR. The demand for the franchise
is right and just, and the danger increases
every day 1T is withheld.
I'm Cape Colony. and we believe, in the
Orange Free States also sympathy Is felt
for the Citlanders. The latter cannot now
recede. and their only danger is from
themselves. We can make allowance for
a few Germans, but that the Afri-
kanders and the British colonists,' with
their traditions Of freedom and cohesion,
can betray the reform Of the army by
splitting the phalanx, we cannot believe
until forced to do so.''
The article bitterly attacks the mining
millionaire, j. B. Robinson. whose organs
support President Kruger, and says:
''At the supreme moment, when the last
chance of peacefully obtaining their just
rights hangs in the balance and when the
split between capital and labor is one