The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-26
ACTION lS URGED
MEMBERS OF THE VOLKSRAAD
ASK THE GOVERNMENT TO
WARN THE BRITISH
ALARMED AT TROOP MOVEMENTS

WANT NOTIFICATION SENT TO LON
DON THAT MOBILIZATION MUST
CEASE AT ONCE
PREPARE TO DEFEND CAPITAL
Trenches, EarthvvOrks and Sand Bag
Available Approaches to Pretoria
Text of the British Note to Sir
Alfred MiIner-TransvaaI;s Reply
Will BE Ready Today.
PRETORIA. Sept. 25-The imperial dis
patch was read today in the volksraad.
President Kruger announced that the re-
ply Of the South African republic would
be presented to the volksraad tomorrow.
Members of the volksraad, believing that
the British notes are intended to gain
time for the concentrating of troops,
urged the government to adjourn the
raad Immediately and to send Great
Britain a note declaring that further
mobilization will be regarded as an IN
friendly act,
Trenches. earthworks and sand bag de-
fenses are being. erected at all available
approaches to the capital.
The Brussels correspondent OF the
Standard says that DR.. Leyds European
representative of the South African re-
public. now realizes the hopelessness of
anv attempt to secure European interven-
ton.
BOER SPIES ELUDED.
DURHAM, Natal, Sept, 25.-Seven hun
dred and fifty men of the Leicestershire
regiment, $50 men of the Royal Dublin
Fusileers. 2CO mounted infantry and the
Eighteenth Hussars have arrived at
Dundee from Lady Smith. The troops
that have been moved from Lady Smith
to Dundee will form a new camp at
Dundee, their places being filled with
others. Their movement was executed
so smartly and unexpectedly that the
Boer spies were unaware of 1t until 1t
was actually accomplished.
GEN. JOUBERTs ESTIMATES.
CAPE TOWN, Sept. 25.-It is reported
from Pretoria that Commandant General
Jo,lbert reckons on 1900 Transvaal
troops. 5000 from the Orange Free State,
5000 from Cape Colony, 1850 from Natal
and 5000 Honanders, Germans and other
volunteers.
MR.. CHAMBERLAIN'S REPLY.
off 6i7i9
foreign Office this evening gave out the
text of the letter of the secretary of state
for the colonies, Mr.. Chamberlain, to the
British commissioner in South Africa, Sir
Alfred Miner dated Sept. e. The Brit
fsh reply expresses regret that her MAJ
esty's offer No. 5, of Sept. 6, had been
refused, and says:
1.-The object her majesty's govern
ment had in view in the recent negorfa-
tions has been stated in a manner which
cannot admit Of misapprehenston, viz. !:
To obtain such substantial and imIne>
diate representation for the outanders
as will enable them to secure for them
selves that fair and Iust treatment Whl n
was formally promised them in 1881 and
which her majesty intended to secure
for them when she granted privileges CT
self-gOVernment to the TTansyaal. No
conditions less comprehensive than those
contained in the telegram of Sept. S
can be relied on to effect this object. The
refusal of the South African government
to entertain the offer thus made coming
as 1t does after four months of pro-
tlacted negotiations, themselves the
climax of five years Of extended agita-
ton, makes it useless to further pursu
the discussion on the lines ri herto fol-
lowed, and the imperial government ia
now compelled to consider the situation
efresh and formulate its own proposals
for final settlement of the issues which
have been created in South Africa bY
q,lIr
wears by the government Of South Africa
They will communicate the result Of
their deliberations In a later dispatch "
In a later communication, dated Sept
%, the imperial government takes up
the charge of breach Of faith insinuated
by Secretary of State Reitz Sept. &c.
which We cannot pass over in silence. =
Mr Chamberlain then says:
'The proposals made by the South
African republic in its letters Of Aug 1e
end 20 were not induced by suggestion
given by the British agent from the
state attorney to as claimed On the con-
t~ary the state attorney sounded the
I"itsh agent, both in writing and in con-
NsTSatton. as to the conditions on which
t7e tmperial government would waive tn
iNvitatfon to a joint inquiry and
tie result of these COMMUNICATIONS was
TIE proposals made by the South Afrioan
government in these letters. Ii is i'm
possible tnat the South African Eovern>
the imperial governments answer to the
conditions named, and my reply was ac-
tuallv the same as the British agent hah
fNrHshadOWed to the state attorney and
which. therefore, the South African gov
eminent must have anticipated in max
II" the proposals
"The imperial government also denies
th@t IFS telegram of Sept 8 substituted an
e"t'"ely new proposal for the invitation
t. the Joint commission Of inquiry"
The imperial government then quotes
the dispatch from South Africa of Aug
10 containing an alternative proposal
identical with that which the imperia
government is said to have substituted
end the communication then proceeds as
follows:
"'rhe imperial government sees nr
ground for misapprehension on the mar
Of The South African republic as TO If,
answer regarding non-interference anf
suzeratnty, as the imperial government
had already stated that 1t would no
press for the appointment of Joint com
mission of inquiry in view of the fac
ti9t such an inquiry would, In the opin
ION Of the government of the Soutr
African republic, prejudice the right O,
fnll independence repeatedly recognized
by the imperial government
AS to the use of the English language
In the volksraad, the imperial government
regards this as reasonable and is as.
tonished that the government of the
South African republic should deem Il
unnecessary and make a point of denv.
ing that the government of the Soutt
African republic ever proposed the same
to the British agent"