The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-19

Foreign, Colonial and War Offices
in LondOn-BOers Need Expect No
Hello From Germany.
LONDON, Sept 19-War risks on
>. .consignments to the Transvaal were
quoted at a premium of so per cent
yesterday and all the markets were SEN
sitive and excited
The Daily Chronicle points out this
morning that the Orange Free State
would better serve the Transvaal by re-
naming neutral than by active assist
ance because the easiest route for
marching troops to johannesburg and
Pretoria lies between the Orange river
and Vaal river" The Cape Town cor
respondent of the Daily Chronicle says:
1T Is reported here that Conyugham
Green, British diplomatic agent at Pre-
toria, fears that an attempt will be
made to dynamite the British agency.
The special dispatches from South
Africa confirm the report telegraphed
Yesterday that the Beers are massing
artillery In positions commanding Laings
Mex Small Boer detachments occupy
positions above Buffalo river.
The members of the Afrikander bund,
in Cape Town, intend to convene the
bund in congress to consider the situa-
ton.
A Bloemfontein paper reports the dis
missal of several Englishmen from the
Bloemfontein police force because of
their refusal to serve on the commando.
DANGER OF DEFEAT.
The Daily Telegraph publishes a COM
nunicatfon from a military correspondent
who, discussing the effect of the Free
State throwing its lot in with the Trans
vaal, says:
IN the event Of war this will greatly
increase our difficulties and will lengthen
the duration of he campaign, but the
work will be accomplished, and the I'm
ion Jack will float over Consolidated
South Africa between the Zambesi and
the Cape. The principal danger which
besets the British position is sudden
outbreak of hostilities enabling the Beers
to score a few minor successes, which
would bring down upon US every Dutch
man in South Africa Especially the state
ment that the Beers are sending COM
pressed forage to the Natal border seems
to signify that they will not wait FOR new
grass, but are preparing for an immediate
advance For this we certainly are not
vet prepared 1t is doubtful if the few
troops and volunteers now in Natal could
even maintain the defensive. The Cape
frontier from Mafeking to Kimberly, in
Guiding the diamond fields, is practically
defenseless, and combined attack by the
Orange Free State and the Transvaal
might result in disaster and the retreat
of our forces towards Durham, leaving
the border towns in the hands of the en-
envy. Small wonder is it that these towns
are alarmed. The movement of British
troops into Natal has not begun mo-
ment too SOON
BUSY BRITONS
Mr. 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 a special messenger, with dis
patches, 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 council.
Long dispatches were sent last evening
to the vieeroy of India, Lord Curzon, and
to the British high commissioner in South
Africa, Sir Alfred Mil er.
Lord Garnet Wolseley, field marshal
and cormander-in-ch chief, returned to Lon
don yesterday and Immediately repaired to
the war office, where he remained busily
employed the greater part of the day.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Mail says:
"The United States consul in Cape Town
has gone to Bloemfontein ct the request
of the government Of the Orange Free
State to confer regarding the crisis. The
Orange Free State executive IS anxious to
secure American Intervention. Boer spies
infest all the border towns. Troops will
be dispatched to Kimberly within a week.
Five hundred started tonight, and others
will go forward tomorrow"
oAFRIKANDERs UNITED.
PRETORIA, Sept. t3.-The Transvaal
state secretary, F. w. Re1tz, in the course
of an interview today declared that the
government, the volksraad and the peo-
which the Transvaal has assumed. and
there was no foundation whatever for the
reports of differences. Mr.. Reitz also
asserted that the Transvaals decision
was arrived at in conjunction with the
Orange Free State
The volksraad today readopted the
mining article in the gold law, eliminated
last year. empowering the government
to confiscate the claims and mines be-
longing to people convicted of treason
or conspiracy against the state and en-
powerlng the government to order that
the mines be worked, and if this instruc-
ton is disregarded to work them
through its own agents. The readopted
article comes into force Immediately.
NO HELP FROM GERMANY
BERLIN, Sept. 18-The Associated
Press learns authoritatively that the
German government has emphaticaIly
Informed President Kruger to expect no
assistance In the event of war with
Great Britain, and that the German con-
Suls in the Transvaal have been in
structed to inform Germans who volun-
teer their help that they will be aiding
President Kruger at their own risk.
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