The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-04
WAR BALLOONS SENT.
England Thinks They Will BE
Just the Thing In the
TrRnsVaals

London. Oct. Arrangements for
the dispatch of war stores and men
continue. A quantity of balloon ma
teria1 has been sent to South Africa,
the war office considering that military
balIooning will prove of the greatest
value in the kind of warfare expected
in South Africa. The charter1ng Oh
transports is still going on. Five yes
sells of the Cunard line are now en-
gagged.
one result of the war scare is an ad-
vance of one shilling to eighteen pence
in the price asked for the wheat o1ereo
in the market today.
A telegram from Paris announces
that NJ Arnaud, president OF the inter-
national arbitration and peace league
has sent an appeal to Lord Salisbury
entreating him to choose a power to act
with a power chosen by the TransVaa1
with the object of averting war.
Mr.. Montague White, consul general
for the South African republic in Lon
don, told the Associated Press this
morning that he telegraphed President
Kruger urging him to make personal
appeal to Lord Salisbury, dwelling upon
the iniquity of the war and proposing
a scheme as a basis of further negotia-
lions.
He said he was momentarily expect
ing to hear that the Transvaal govern
ment was sending an ultimatum to
Great Britain, declaring the sending of
troops a casus belli, in which event he
would be compelled to close his Office.
Mr.. White added a curious statement
to the effect that a representative OF
one of the largest capitalists of the
Rand called upon him this morning ana
asserted that it was known in capital
list circles that Lord Salisbury had de-
termined that there should not be war
and had instructed the secretary OF
state for the Colonies, Mr.. Chamber
lain, to wire to South Africa further as
suranceS with regard to the British de-
sire to respect the complete independ-
- he Nsr-T10
ton of this is obtainable in official cir
cles.
The dispatches from New Castle,
Natal, report that Geographic COM
municatiOn is interrupted beyond
CharlestOwn, where the stores have
been looted by the natives since the de-
parture of the whites.
Stories of the movements of Beers
and British, and of the hurried muster
ing and dispatch of troops on both sides
have come from other points. A tele-
gram from Ladysmith, Natal says that
the Orange Free State troops have oc-
cupied and closed Bothas Pass on the
Free State border and that Command
ant Allriche, chief of the Free State ar
tillery, is proceeding in the direction of
Kimberly with a. considerable force of
artillery. Another force of artillery,
under Commandment Bong, has gone to
HarriSmith, while COmmandant Smith
commands a force of artillery en- route
for KroOnstadt.
The latest news received from johann
nesburg indicates that the last rush of
| Europeans to leave town has occurred.
| They crowded the trains like sardines,
| OCCUPYING every possible inch on the
! tracks. There is considerable axniety
| with regard to the few who remain be-
| hind as communication seems to be cut
| off.
The mining commissioner stated Off
| cially that the proclamation of Septem-
| TENDER 29, relating to the protection Of
/ miners, had been withdrawn, and he
| therefore advised all Britishers to leave
! as soon as possible.
| The British steamer LaIpoora now in
| the transport service, arrived last even
| ing at Durham, Natal with field artiI-
| lery, a hospital corps and cOmmissariat
| stores from India. The troops were
| promptly disembarked and sent by
! train up the country.
The Natal authorities have announc-
/ ed that no more mails will be dispatch
! ed to the Transvaal until further no
! tice.
Last Fridays mail was sent back
| from the frontier.
A Bloemfontein dispatch says that
| the Orange Free State government has
| gaZetted an alien expulsion law and
] also law forbidding the export of
] grain, stock and other necessarfes
| without a permit. Communicating is
| proceeding there at a lively rate Ac-
! cOrding to a dispatch from LOurenzo
| Marquire, Portuguese East Africa. a
| crowd of Beers who were assembled at
the MacnaQOrp station forced the refu-
| gee burghers to uncover during the
singing of Boer song and severely
| ma1treated several Englishmen, stab
| bling one and kicking and tramping
| upon others. 1t is reported there also
| that two ladies were outra geously as
| saulted at PaardokOp station by Beers,
| one being struck in the face by a rifle
| showed through the railway carriage
window, and the other struck by her
| assailant's fists.
The war Office, it is reported, has re-
ceived an offer from two thousand Off
/ and of the CT1Ih9D a fOr
service in the TransvaaI
/ Among the steamers chartered by the
British government today for purpose
of transport is the Nomandic.
Lloyd publishes a report that gold
valued at 8500,O0G in transit has been
secured by the Transvaal authorities