Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14

London. Oct. 12-Intensc as has been
/ the concern Of England over the Trans
Vaal situation FOR the past three weeks
1t is rs nothing to the excitement that
/ hesets every Englishman at the pres
4 ent hour.
! War IS not only imminent: it is upon
us ana nothing it would seem can stem
/ is It'd" 1t this hour. The activity of
I the government in the pushing forward
! az troops ana equipment is redoubled
since Wednesday. News of Boer at
lacks ard massacrcs are expected
The government has great confidence.
in Sir George Stewart White. V. G.. a
veteran fighter AMI used to South Afri-
can warfare. believing that he Will a.
all in the power Of man to hold bacI,
The B"er advance until the main forces
of the British arrive News from thu
Cape i hard 70 get because govern
! m"nt messages crowd the cables 4
military censorship has been estab-
lished over all kilograms from the
cape and into the Cape a. prevent the
Beers from obtaining information rel
alive to British movements
The rum"r that Conyngham Greene.
hrltiSh diplomatic agent at Pretoria
has been assaSSinated is officially de-
MED. England is in tumult and un-
happily rot unit in the wisdom ol
the colonial policy which has projected
this condition of war.
The second edition Of the Standard
says that dispatch from Ladysmith.
dated yesterday morning. says that il
IS again reported that the Beers have
occupied Laings Mex. the younger
burghers insisting upon the occupation
despite the more prudent counsels |
Telegraph wires connecting with the |
Free State have been cut and an i'm |
mediate advance Of the Beers is not |
anticipated
Alhertina. which a dispatch from |
Durham reported to have been seized on |
Thursday by the Beers is a station in |
the Free State on The Harrismth line. |
flariismith is equipped and Differed |
entirely by Natal troops. Durham ad-
vices received here say that the ROYAL |
Irish fuSileerS have arrived there and |
that military headquarters are being |
removed to Ladysmith whittier Cen Sir
George Stewart White. Gen. Sir Archi- |
bald Hunter and Gen. Symons with |
their STATS have already gone.
The cabinet met in council at noon |
today. Public interest in the decisions
was very keen. Lord Salisbury and Mr. |
chamberlain, with other popular favor
ties We're cheered as they arrived.
Although the latest phase of the sit
uation in South Africa was considered.
the principal business was to arrange
respecting the text Of the Queens
speech on the re-assembling of Parlia-
ment next Tuesday. together with other
rrcliminaries. The, council adjourned
at =. NJ
The evening News publishes the fol-
lowing dispatch from Cape Town: An
train has been destroyed south
of Mafeking. Fifteen British troops
We're killed. The Beers shellcd the
Wrcckage after the train was derailed"
Avices from Johannesburg report the
communicating by the Transvaal gov
eminent of another $4,000 of gold.
dispatch from Paris late this after
noon says: THE Beers with u guns are
preparing to assault Mafeking."
1t is reported in Cape Town though
az yet the rumor is unconfirmed, that q
collision has taken place between trains
bearing refugees near Victoria west.
Cape Colony. nine persons being killed
ANA many others injured.
The Boer forces with artillery. ac-
cording to a dispatch just received
from Standerton. broke camp at Sand
spruit. yesterday morning, moving in
the direction of Natal.
The announcement that the Beers
had destroyed an arm0red train on the
western border Of the Transvaal is cal
culated to bring home to the man in
the street" the realities of war. At
tempts are made to liken the occur
renee To the blowing up Of the u. S.
hatlaship Maine in Havana harbor; but
that event occurred in times of peace.
The Beers We're doubtless within their
rights as belligerents if they are respon
sibie for the destruction Of the train. the
only comparison that can be instituted
with the blowing up OF the battleship IS
in respect to the loss of life, if, as there