Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-26
Beers SUSPICIOUS,
They Believe British Notes Are
Intended to Gain Time,
URGE RAAD ADJOURNMENT.
They Wish Britain Warned Against
Further Mobilization.
PRETORIA STRONGLY FORTIFIED
Trenches, Earthworks, and Sand
bag Dcfences Being Erected on All
Available Approaches - Chamber
Iain's Note of Sept. Sth Published.
bag Dcfences

LONDON, September 25.-The officials
Of the Foreign Office this evening gave
out the text of the letter OF the Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, Mr..
Chamberlain. 10 the British High Com
missioner I'm South Africa, Sir Alfred
Miner, dated September 22d. The British
reply expresses regret that her Ma
jesty's offer, No. 5, of September
Sth, had been refused. and says: "The
object her Majesty's Government had In
view in the recent negotiations has been
stated in a manner which cannot admit
Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: To obtain such
substantial and immediate representa-
ton for the Outlanders az Will enable
them to secure for themselves that fair
and lust treatment which was formally
promised them In 1881, and which her
Majesty intended to secure for them
when she granted privileges Of self-gov-
eminent to the Transvaal. No condi-
tions less comprehensive than those con-
tanned in the telegram of September Sth
can be relied on to effect this object.
The refusal of the South African Govern
ment to entertain the offer thus made,
coming. as it does, after four months OF
protracted negotiations. themselves the
climax Of five years OF extended agita-
ton. makes it useless to further pursue
the discussion on the lines hitherto fol-
lowed. and the Imperial Government is
now compelled to consider the situation
afresh and formulate its own proposals
80 . h. zsrnf ah
have been created in South Africa by the
policy constantly followed for many
wears bv the Government of South At
RIGA. They will communicate the result
of their deliberations in a later dis
patch"
ALLEGED BREACH OF FAITH.
In q later communication, dated Sep
TENDER 22d. the Imperial Government
takes up the charge of breach of faith
insinuated by Secretary-of-State Reitz,
September 10Th, (which we cannot pass
over in silence" Mr.. Chamberlain then
saws: THE proposals made by the South
African republic, in its letters Of August
10Th and 10Th, were not induced by sug-
gestions given by the British agent from
the States Attorney, as claimed. ON the
contrary. the States Attorney sounded
the British agent, both in writing and in
conversation. as to the conditions on
which the Imperial Government would
waive the invitation TO q JOINT inquiry,
and the result Of this communication
was the proposals made by the South
African Government in these letters. IL
IS impossible that the South African
Government could have had any doubt as
To The Imperial Governments answer to
the conditions named and my reply was
actually the same as the British agent
had foreshadOwed 10 the States Attor-
nev and which. therefore. the South
African Government must have antici-
pated in making the proposals
"The Imperial Government also denies
that its telegram Of September SIN SUD
stituted an entirely new proposal TOT the
invitation to the joint commission oil IN
curry"
,rbe Tmperial Government then quotes
tho dispatch from South Africa Of Au-
eust 18th. containing an alternative pro-
nosal Identical with that which the lmpe-
rial Government is said TO have subst-
tinted. and the communication then pro-
ceeds as follows:
Observation-Disclosures AND sUzE-
RAINTY.
.oThe Imperial Government sees no
ground for misapprehension on the part
NJ the South African republic as to Its
answer regarding non-interference ana
suzerainty. as the Imperial Government
had already stated that it would not
nress for the appointment Of joint COM
mission of inquiry in view Of the fact
that such an inquiry would, in the opin-
ion of the government of the South Afri-
can republic, prejudice the right OF fun
independence repeatedly recognized by
the Imperial Government.
"As TO the use of the English language
IN the Volkesraad the Imperial Govern
ment regards this as reasonable, and Is
astonished that the government OF the
South African republic should deem IL un-
necessary. and make point or denying
that the government Of the South African
republic ever proposed the same to the
British agent
READ IN THE VOLKESRAAD.
PRETORIA. September 25.-The Impe-
rial dispatch was read to-day In the
Volkesraad.
President Kruger announced that the
reply Of the government OF the South
African republic would be presented TO
the Volkesraad tomorrow.
WOOLF JOELS SLAYER ARRESTED.
JOHANNESBURG, September 2.-Von
VeIthein. the former trooper in the Cape
police who shot and killed Woolf Joel,
nephew, partner, and executor of the late
Barney Barnato, in johannesburg III
March OF last year, after falling i'll an at
tempt TO blackmail. has been arrested
while crossing the frontier It Is said
that he was returning, with the object OF
giving the government information.
BRITISH FLANK MOVEMENT.
DURHAM. NATAL. September %
seven hundred and fifty men OF the Lei
cestershire regiment. 10 of the Royal
Dublin Fusiliers, 200 mounted infantry,
and the Eighteenth Hussars have arrived
al Dundee from Ladysmith.
BOER SPIES OUTWITTED.
AfARITZBURG. NATAL. Sep
teuber 25.-The troops that have been
moved from Ladysmith 10 Dundee Will
form a new camp at Glencoe, their places
belng filled by others from India. The
move was executed so smartly and unex-
nec,edly that the Boer spies were una
ware OF IL until II was actually accom-
plished.
H0ERs BECOMING SUSPICIOUS.
LONDON. September "a special dis
patch from Pretoria says that the mem.
hers OF the Volksraad believing thht
the british notes are intended 10 gain
,,u,a for thu concentration OF troops