Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-02
Queen Expected to Issue Proclama-
ton at Early Date.
TO CONSIDER 9RAESVAAL PROBLEM
Present Adyices Indicate Immediate
Rupture of All Relations.
TROOPS STILL ASSING

| LONDON, October 2-The announced in
| tention of the British cabinet to meet to-
| morrow has, apparently, been reconsidered
1t Is now said that the meeting depends
| largely on the developments in the Trans
| vaal. The date for summoning parliament
| has not been definitely settled, though it
| IS expected to be about October 49, Queen
! Victoria will hold a privy council at Bal
moral at an early date, when the neces-
| sary proclamation will be signed.
| 1t is believed that there has been a wide
spread cutting of wires or that an extra
| censorship has been established. There
| is nothing today to indicate that the au-
| thorities at Pretoria have the slightest de-
| sire to come to terms peacefully with
| Great Britain. Had the Beers not de-
| termined to fight it out, or If they had not
| prepared for hostiities, they would, it is
| thought have sent some temporizing reply
to Great Britain'S dispatch.
| All the hanging back seems to be on
| Great Britain's side, where, in spite of
| the newspaper and the war Office talk of
| the mobilization of an army corps, the
| work is apparently proceeding in a curl
| ously leisurely manner. The departure of
| Gen. Sir Redvers Butler. the commander
of the British forces in South Africa, has
been postponed from week to week, and
| when the members of the cabinet talk in
public their assurances Of Great Britain
SoOu Will tOWdTOS lne ITdflSNddi are re-
garded as almost smacking of pathetic ap-
pealS for peace.
Duke of Devonshire's Pacific Talk.
The Duke of Devonshire, lord president Of
| the council, In his reply to a toast to his
health at a public luncheon of the Man.
chester Technical School Saturday after
noon, was careful. in referring to the
Transvaal situation, to announce that the
cabinets new proposals were moderate, and
and the whole speech seemed to indicate
that the British government was framing
its dispatch so as to invite a continuance
of the negotiations.
T 1t now appears that the alleged calling
out of the ffrst-cass army reserve was a
hoax. The circulars We're issued on Of
fetal paper and many members of the
serve presented themselves at the barracks
only to find that the order was a forgery.
The police now have the matter in their
hands.
An advertisement appeared this morning
announcing the formation of a corps of
gentlemen rough riders, patterned after
Loosevelts Rough Riders, for service in
South Africa.
Advices received from Ladysmith, Natal,
today say that Ge0 burghers have assem-
bled at AlbertiIla, in the Orange Free
state. wlth the object of proceeding in the
direction. %. the, border, and it is feared a
RAID on LadysmI1h is meditated.
A prominent Englishman, DR.. Wilson,
has been Gpmmandered at Harrismith by
The Natal field artillery, carbineers and
other military commands are encamped at
ShowSround, OF the road leading to the
Orange Free State
Gen. Sir William SIMMONS the second
IN command under Maj. Gen. Sir George
Stewart White, commanding the Natal
forces, is expected to arrive at Ladysmith
shortly.
Immediate Rupture Expected.
Reports from Cape Town declare that an
immediate rupture of the diplomatic rela-
ton between Great Britain and the Trans
vaal is expected '-
The South African News. semi-official
newspaper. announces that a special train
has left to fetch Conyngham Greene. the
British diplomatic agent at Pretoria, and
his staff. 1t adds that the formal hauling
down of the British flag on the agency
building at Pretoria is imminent
The correspondent of the Associated Press
at Cape Town has obtained an official de-
NAL OF the statement of the South African
News that train has been dispa tched to
fetch Cunningham Greene from Pretoria
No instructions have vet been issued IN
Mr. Greene All is quiet al Pretoria Great
excitement prevails at Cape Town, where
1t Is reported that the Beers have occupied
Iaings Mex.
The British at Cape Town express great
satisfaction at the fact that matters have
reached stage when definite settlement
of the difficulties is inevitable
that the position of the British troops
in South Africa is critical owing to the
delay in sending reinforcements and in the
event OF hostilities, early reverses are re-
Sarded as probable.
special dispatch from Johannesburg
dated september -. gives the report Of
the arrival of the Notorious lyman"
The latest advices show that the Trans
vaal mobilization has been rapid and corr
| prehensive. Many Beers, it is said. did
| not wait to be commanded, but proceed
ed to the border spontaneously. The men,
bers OF the executive, state secretaries
President kruger's relatives, members of
| the raad, judges and other professional
men are all eagerly giving their services.
rather than be beaten. 1t is calculated
| that the Orange Free State already has
1000 men on the border.
Hard to Get News From Pretoria.
The cable company officials at the cape
| say it is impossible to reach Pretoria over
the Durham line. The Cape Town to Pre-
| torla line is still working, but it is glutted
| with official messages.
| 1t is announced that Gen. Butler will
sail for the cape either Friday or Sat
urday next.
War May Begin Tuesday
| The Berlin correspondent of the Daily
News says:
According to advices from The Hague.
U
| the Transvaal, has named Tuesday as the
| day for d formal declaration of war by the
| Beers. There is an unconfirmed rumor in
| circulation here that Queen Victoria has
written Queen Wilhemina of the Neither
| lands, deploring the turn events have taken
In South Africa. and assuring the Dutch
monarch that, she has gone to the utmost
limits of her constitutional rights in the
endeavor to secure peace"
The Pretoria correspondent of the Daily
Chronicle, ,telegraphing at noon Sunday,
says:
Il have seen the leading members of the
executive ,9f the Transvaal, who desire.
through the Daily Chronicle, at the last
moment to- ask what the two kindred ma
lions are going to fight about. They point
to the fact, thatya large number of out
landers of all nationalities are arming in
defense of the republic. They point to the
unanimty ,ef feeling in the Orange Free
State, which, they say. shouldpmake Eng
land pause., IL
They aim at a union with England like
| that of Scotland; not Ireland. and they
urge that it will be a war like the war
which lost England her American colonies,
and that it will benefit neither the English