Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-09-19
INTERVENTION ASKED.
Orange Free State Asks United
States to Act.
EOrRs rLANs GUNS ON BORDER.
TraDsvaal state Secretary Declared That
the Coun'ry's Decision Was In Con-
junciion With the Orange Free state.
Activity Iu Government Onicces.

LONDON, Sept. l9.-The Cape Towr
correspondent of The Daily Mail said:
"The United States consul in Cap,
Town has gone to Bloemtontain at the
| request of tine government of the Orange
Free State to confer regarding the
crisis. The Orange Free State execu
| tive is anxious TO secure American i'll
| tervention.
''Boer spies infest all the border
towns. Ten thousand troops will be
dipatched. to Kimberley within week
Five hundred started and orhers will
go forward today"
The special dispatches from South
Africa confirmed the report that the
Beers are massing artillery i'll positions
commanding Laings Mex. Small Boe1
detachments occupy positions above
Buffalo river
The members of the Afrikander bund
III Cape Town intend to convene the
bund i'll congress to consider the situa.
ton.
A BloemfOntain paper reports the
dismissal OF several Englishmen from
the Bloemfontain police force because
of their refusal to serve on the COM
mando.
PRETORIA, Sept. 19.-The Transvaal
state secretary, F. W. Reitz, in the
course of an interview declared that the
government. the volksraad and the
people were unanimous regarding the
attitude which the Transvaal had as
sumed. and that there was no foun-
dation whatever for the reports of diff
ferences.
Mr. Raify nj rod tl., tl,x1
walls decision vas arrived at in con-
junction with the Grange Free State.
The volksraad readopted the mining
article i'll the gold law, eliminated last
year, empowering the government to
confiscate the claims and mines belong
ing to people convicted of treason or
conspiracy against the state, and en-
pOwering the government to order that
the mines be worked and, if this in
struction is disregarded, to work them
through its own agents. The readopted
article comes into force Immediately.
LONDON, Sept. l9.-War risks on con-
signments to the Transvaal were quoted
at u premium OF 80 per cent yesterday,
and all the markets were very sensitive
and excited.
The Daily Chronicle points out this
morning that the Orange Free State
would probably better serve the Trans
vaal by remaining neutral than by ac-
tive assistance, because the easiest route
for marching troops to johannesburg
ana Pretoria lies between Orange river
and Vaal river"
The Cape Town correspondent of
The Daily Cnonicle says:
1T is reported here that Conyngham
Greene, British diplomatic agent at
Pretoria, fears that anxattempt will be
made to dynamite the British agency"
MIR. Chamberlain came to London from
Birmingham yesterday afternoon and
spent the evening at the colonial office.
While there he received a dispatch from
Lord Salisbury, who is at Hatfield House
and sent IL special messenger, without
dispatches, TO the premier.
There has been lively interchange of
dispatches between the foreign, war
and colonial offices, but no summons
has yet been issued for cabinet coun-
Gil.
Long dispatches were sent last even
ing 20 the viceroy of India, Lord Cur
zon, ana TO the British high commits
siOner i'll South Africa, Sir Alfred Mil
ner.
General Lord Garnet Wolsley, field
and commander-in-chief, re-
turned to London yesterday and imme-
diately repaired to the war office, where
he remained busily employed the greater
part of the day.