The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22
Regarding Affairs i'm the
TranSvaal.
The REPLY OF KRUGER.
The Language Firm and Upyielding.
Winds Up With Proposal for Joint
Commission-A Coup Of some Kind
I'm Coutemplauon-nany Conferences
Between British Omciais orange
Free State. Want American Inter.
venttou

London, September 1S.-The Trans
vaal situation remains practically I'M
changed The general apprehension in
regard to the outcome was reflected by
me decline ~ consols and stocks on the
ssock exchange. where. although alt
stocks continued depressed, there was
not rle slightest approach ~ excite
ment.
The text OF President Kruger's reply
was issued by the secretary Of state
for the colonies Mr.. Chamberlain. this
afternoon. The language In many
places is taken to indicate A firm, I'M
yielding position. The reply. however.
concludes:
IF her majesty's government is will
ing and feels able To make this decis-
ion a joint commission. as at first pro-
posed by Mr.. Chamberlain, at would
put All end TO the present state OF ten
sion. Race hatred would decrease and
die out and the prosperity and welfare
of the South African republic and the
whole Of South Africa would be de-
veloped and furthered. and f~raterniZa-
ton between the different nattonalities
would increase"
a COUP EXPECTED.
The second edition of The Times con-
ain a dispatch from johannesburg.
which says:
There is. l am informed, some early
coup in contemplation. The quantities
of compressed forage forwarded in the
direction Of the Natal border Indicate
some move on the port OF the troops IN
that quarter. The government is buy
ing horses freely today"
Mr.. Chamberlain came to London
from Birmingham yesterday afternoon
and spent the evening at the colonial
office. While There he received n dis
patch from Lord Salisbury. who is at
Hatfield house, and sent a special mes
senger, without dispatches, to the
premier.
There been a lively interchange
Of dispatches between the foreign war
and colonial offices, but no summons
has yet been issued for a cabinet coun-
Gil.
Long dispatches were sent last even
ing to the viceroy OF India, Lord Cur
Zon, and to the British high commits
sioner in South Africa, Sir Alfred Mil
ner.
General Lord Garnet wolseley, field
marshal and commander-in-chief, re-
turned ITO London yesterday and i'm
mediately repaired to the war office,
where he remained busily employed the
greater part of the day.
War risks on consignments to he
of so per cent. yesterday and all the
markets were very sensitive and ex-
cited.
The Cape Town correspondent Of The
Daily Chronicle says: 1T ia reported
here hat Cunningham Greene, British
diplomatic agent at Pretoria, fears
that an attempt will be made to dyna-
mite the British agency"
The Cape Town correspondent OF The
Daily Mail says: The United states
consul in Cape Town has gone to
Bloemfontein, at the request Of the
| government of the Orange Free State
to confer regarding the crisis. The
Orange Free States executive is anxi-
Gus to secure American intervention.
Boer spies infest all the border towns.
Two thousand troops will be Dispatch
ed to Kimberley within a week. Five
hundred started tonight and others will
go forward tomorrow.
NO ASSISTANCE FROM GERMANY,
Berlin, September 1S.-The Associate
ed Press learns authoritatively that the
German government has emphaticaliy
INFORMED President Kruger to expect
no assistance in the event Of war with
Great Britain and that the German con-
suls in the Transvaal have been in
: structed to inform Germans who vol
unteer their help that they will be do
ing so at their own risk.