The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-25
LOADING THE GUNS
THOUGH WAR HAS NOT BEEN DE-
CLARED IN THE TRANSVAAL,
TENSION IS GREAT
BOERS PREPARING FOR WORST
GREAT QUANTITIES OF WAR NUM-
TIoNS BEING DISTRIBUTED
TO BUTCHERS
GREAT BRITAIN NOT IDLE

and All PecautiOns Taken to BE
Prepared for the Expected Con-
fict-BOers Incensed at Portu-
guese Because They Need Ammu-
milton Held in DeIagOa Bay.
CAPE TOWN, Aug. PA dispatch
from Bulowayo says that a Dutchman
named Pietrus Vilgoman was charged
there today before a local magistrate
upon a warrant signed by the British
commissioner, Sir Alfred Miner, with
melting the natives of Bechuanaland to
rebel against the British authorities
The man was remanded
The Babylon News claims to have in
formation regarding the intention Of
France and Germany to Interfere, with
a view of participating in the proposed
inquiry, and that the Transvaal govern
ment entertained their demands regard
ing the dynamite contracts, hoping to
make it an international question:.
According to this authority, when the
Volksraad commission reported against
the cancellation Of the contracts, the
French and German consuls communi-
Gated with Paris and Berlin to ascer-
tain If their governments had received
the reports Of their subjects and would
take steps to be represented on the COM
mission of inquiry. No reply was voucl1-
safed, which was regarded as equivalent
to refusal, and the decision of the French
and German governments is thus with
held.
The Transvaal government, says the
Babylon News decides to back down
without offending the amour propre Of
the burghers, if the opportunity is afford
ed, or then war will not be shirked
The Delagoa bay incident, coupled
with the recent transit of large amount
of ammunition, has directed the atten-
ton of the British officials to the i'm
mense accumulation of munitions of war
in the South African republics, especial
ly ir the Transvaal.
The outlanders being debarred from
carrying arms, the supply OF weapons,
as shown in I.ourenzo Marques Delagoa
y
IN excess of the burghers' requirements,
and, consequently, there is a growing
feeling among the British community
in South Africa that no settlement Of the
existing crisis will insure lasting peace
unless it includes a provision for the
reduction of armaments.
WHY BoERs ARE INCENsED.
LONDON, Aug. 25.-The Johannesburg
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
says:
The Beers are so tncensed with Portu
gal stopping the ammunition now IN
Delagoa Bay because, I understand the
cartridges they have in hand are not
suitable to the Mausers that are now be,
ing distributed"
The johannesburg correspondent of
the Morning Post says:
''The general impression here and IN
Pretoria is that Great Britain Is pre-
par1ng to accept the proposed COM
promise.
Mr.. Shelley, the local representative
of Burroughs, Welcome & Co., the Lon>
don druggists, was arrested near Jo-
hannesburg fort. The police subjected
him to many insults, but soon liberated
him in the absence of any specific
charges
WAR PREPARATIONS.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Mail says:
Despite the virtual blockade of war
material in Delagoa bay, the Cape gov
ernment is sending enormous consign-
ments of munitions Of war to Bloem-
fontein. During the present month
over 100000 cartridges have been sent
and 800 rifles were dispatched last night
from Port Elizabeth to Bloemfontein
In addition to this the Cape ministry.
while absolutely declining to arm the
volunteers of the colony, continues to af-
ford other facilities to the Orange Free
State to arm its burghers, just across the
water, freely granting the use of the
colonial railway for the distribution Of
cartridges from the Bloemfontein ar
senal to the border towns
''The patience of the people IS becom-
| ing exhausted and unless the imperial
government acts quickly and decisively
! the greatest danger may ensue to Brit
ism prestige"
DURHAM, Natal, Aug. M-The men
belonging to the British first-class re-
serve residing here have been ordered
to hold themselves in readiness to rejoin
their regiments
| SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 24-The British
! steamer Arundel Castle sailed from this
! port today with thirty officers and 10
men of various regiments bound for
! Cape Town.
JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 24-At a
! meeting here of 200 Germans, a commit
! tee was appointed to express to the
! Transvaal government the willingness of
! the Germans to volunteer for service in
! case Of war, but requesting that they
be enrolled in a separate corps on ac-
count of the hardships endured by the
! Germans in the Magato campaign.
LONDON, Aug. PA special magazine
! has Keen constructed in the steamer
Umotivo, which leaves the Thames to-
morrow, for the conveyance of ammuni-
/ ton and stores to Natal. The consign-
ment included 100000 rounds of machine
gun cartridges, 900 saddle trees and 10C
| tons Of general military stores.
SURPRISED THE QUEEN.