Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-06
General Feeling at Capetown is
that War is Not Far Distant
NEXT MOVE AN ULTIMATUM.
allah Press says President Kruger
viit Not wait for it-British
cabinet Meeting Friday.

tordon. sept. 1.-THE premier the
,.r,uls vi salisbury. will come to
t,.5an today wednesday, from Wall
- to confer with the secretary of
.,.,s for the colonies. Joseph cham
-aan. aud a cabinet council has been
gnmonsd Tor Friday. urgent messages
t,dps Usan sent 60 aii the ministers.
.-,usstug their attendance.
fbsre ia great activity at the admir-
ALI, ana war office. Numerous tclc-
IN. u9m South Africa arrived at
-. colonial Office yesterday CTucsdayJ.
Id thslr contents have not been made
'i G'H' Lord wolsglcy. ncld marshal
.sl mmaudrr-in-chcf. ia IN daily
,5lsmuuIuutiun with the war Office. as
~ aIrl btu. Sir Evelyn Wood, uuJI-
nni.eUuufal u the forces. and COL
H-gt5r Archibald Macdonald. aidc-du-
camp 90 the queen.
1Hp IfgHH ASSOCIATION asserts that the
sHtefs of the Highland light Infantry
Ii Davenport nutincd thor men last
,y5ninF tU prepare FOR departure. prob
a1ly ou Thuudny.
qhs Daily Mai expresses tho opinion
tbat thr "uUxt move viii BE- an ultima
tam unless PRECEDENT iNruEvr ygiua.'
h declares that l5.UO0 men is the Out
,i4e number that the THuHyuul Euv-
sfnmaut can put into the uuld.
Ths Berlin correspondent cox the Daily
ysI says. Il learn from BoCr SOURCES
that reliable uuwH has bUeu received
uUm The Hague, ut Pretoria. 20 the
ta.tt that President kruger viii not
sIye ST. Chamberlain "a chance 90 soma
an ultlmatum, but viii take advantage
u thr nut suspicious movement uf tuc
Bduth troops On the border 10 assume
tha 0neuriNu,'
M Morning Post has the following
nun De- Johannesburg CORE. pendent
NhIH now ut ltOtHrMarit4uurE CHpi-
"a % Natal n inspected the country
carefully 600 the way from Johannes
hw The ycldt in not SOC iu condition
fJr war operations. The town ui Sew-
castle o. utterly unprotected. no seize
!. would assure the bueia' possession uf
laInha Mex, ANA compel the british 90
90 twenty miiUI OF ughlluE over rough
county, peculiarly situated to BUer
uctics. before they could begin the first
Hll action. The war office wants
waking up
ho Johannesburg correspondent OF
thr standard Gays. There seems 90
b. some ground Tor Huppusins that tho
Irae party ut Pretoria uua gained u
th1 influence OF Mt Fisher tho special
upu aniatyo OF the Orange Free
State"
The Times which comments cdltorl-
ally upon The gravity Of the situation
nat nHUutHitutuH "a cabinet council at
such un unusual period, says 1T
would De- unnardonnhly folly Co shut
uur eyes tu the auHplCiously dilutnry
character Uf President kugcr's uiplo-
macy and 90 the cnergy with which no
simultaneously preparing for war.
y u Wel known that Gen. Sir Henry
Butler has been selected 60 command
the British forces should war unfoftu.
tiie'} COME hut IL n the clear duty OF
he government 90 take other steps be-
n4e ODE choice of commander"
AlNIeg1 from DuputoWn Huyi 1T IN
rpoued that J. n. Honmoyor. tho
Airlknnler leader hnr tplpgtuphpd
PRESIDENT Kruger that he cannot have
NJ help ~ the Cape Colony in the event
e hoEuIlt.uH The cNCitgmout loo Cape
uiAn H no FOYER heat Every edition
y lh' papers u eagerly snapped up.
Ng F,nrful fcollng being that war IL
tl,iar distant"