The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-04
C~Ommandant General JOubert Re-
ported to Have Started for the
Front to Direct His Forces.
MORE STEAMERS CHARTERED
GREAT BRITAIN TO USE FIVE Gun
ARDERs FOR TRANSPORTS.
Military BallOOns-Few Europeans
Left i'm J0hannesburg-Queer
story About Salisbury.

LONDON. Oct. 4.-There were no new de-
velopments in the Transvaal situation yes
terday Cruesday.) Arrangements for the
dispatch of war stores and men continues.
A quantity of balloon material has been
sent to South Africa, the Wal Office con-
sidering that military ballooning will prove
of the greatest value in the kind of war
fare expected in South Africa. The char
tering Of transports Is still going on. Five
vessels of the Cunard line are now en-
gagged. One result of the war scare was an
advance of 1 shilling TO is pence in the
price asked for the wheat offered in the
Lynn market yesterday.
A telegram from Paris announces that NJ.
Arnaud, president Of the International Ar
bitration and Peace League. has sent an
appeal to Lord Salisbury entreating him to
choose a power TO act with a power chosen
by the Transvaal, with the object of avert
ing war.
A special from Pretoria, dated Monday,
says that the meeting of the Rad adj
jonrned at IL o'clock in the morning and
that only a legal quorum Of members was
present. President Kruger, addressing the
members, described war as unjust and un-
necessary, and denied that the o~utlanders
wanted the franchise. Lucas Meyer, the
chairman, said the real purpose Of the
British was solely TO gain Naboth's vine
yard. The Transvaal reply. is is reported,
is now ready and only waits the receipt OF
the British note. Continuing, the corre-
%spondent says: IT understand that the
landing of further troops will be regarded
as a casus belli. Four members of the
government will take omman of the COM
mandoes. Commandant General Joubert
started for the Natal border to-day"
A dispatch from Newcastle. Natal, re-
ports that Commander General Joubert has
gone to Vryheid.
The Pietermaritzburg correspondent of
the Daily Mail says he believes martial law
will be declared in Natal. with a view OF
preventing the Natal Dutch from joining
the Beers.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Mail telegraphs that Mr.. Hofmeyer,
the Afrikander leader. will proceed to Pre-
toria tonight to make a last effort for the
maintenance Of peace.
STORES LOOTED.
The dispatches from South Africa are
largely a repetition of those of last week.
Advices from New Castle, Natal, report
that Geographic communication is inter-
AoRtCo O-sOha IN S
stores have been looted by the natives
since the departure of the whites.
Stories Of the movements of Beers and
British and of the hurried muster and dis
patch of troops on both sides have come
from other points. A telegram from Lady
smith, Natal. says the Orange Free State
troops nave occupied and closed Bothas
Pass, on the Free State border. and that
Commandant Allriche, chief of the Free
State artillery, is proceeding in the direc-
ton of Kimberley with a considerable force
OF artillery. Another force of artillery, un-
der Commandant Boning, has gone to Har-
rismith, while Commandant Smith COM
mands a force Of artillery en- route from
Kroonstadt.
The latest news received from Johannes
burg, filed there yesterday. indicates that
the last rush of Europeans to leave the
Town has occurred. They crowded the
trains like sardines, occupying every posi-
ble inch on the trucks. There is con-
siderable anxiety with regard to the few
who remain behind, as communication
seems to be cut off. The mining commits
sioner stated officially that the proclama-
tion of Sept. 20 relative to the protection of
the miners had been withdrawn, and he,
therefore, advised all the Britishers to leave
as soon as possible.
The British steamer Lalpoora, now in the
transport service, arrived last evening at
Durham, Natal, with field artillery. a nos
pital corps and commissariat stores from
India. The troops were promptly disem-
barked and sent by train up the country.
The Natal authorities have announced
that no more mails win he dispatched to
| the Transvaal until further notice. Last
Fridays mail was sent back from the from
tier.
A Bloemfontein dispatch says that the
Orange Free State government has ga
zetted an alien expulsion law and also a
law forbidding the export of grain, stock
and other necessaries without a permit.
Communicating is proceeding here at a live
ly rate.
According TO a dispatch from Lourenzo
Marquee. Portuguese East Africa. a crowd
OF Beers who were assembled at the Mach
adorp station forced the refugee passen-
gers to uncover during the singing of the
Beer national air and severely maltreated
several Englisnmen. stabbing one and kick
ing and trampling upon others. 1t is re-
ported there also that two ladies were out
rageously assaulted at Paardokop station
by Beers, one being struck in the face by
a rife showed through the railway carriage
window. and the other struck by her assail-
ants fists.
The War Office. it is reported. has re-
ceived an offer from two thousand officers
and men OF the Cuban army for service in
the T~ransvaal-
Among the steamers chartered by the
British government for purposes Of trans
port is the Nomadic.
Lloyd publishes a report that gold valued
at 100000 and In transit has been seized
BY the Transvaai authorities.
The Daily Teiegraph's correspondent at