The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-02

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Newspaper Correspondent Who Was On
Train which Was Often sidstracked to
Let Soldiers and Munitions Go By-EnE-
lish Civilians Retire from tho Natal
Frontier in Alarm-Presidsnt Kruger
Closes the High Court at Pretoria.
Sre1ai Cable De,pdtsh to TuRsuS
PTETERMARITzBuRG. Natal. Oct 1.-Numer-
Gus reports reach here to the effect that resi-
dents OF the Transvaal. fearing the outbreak Of
hostilties. are fockinG to the frontiers
by Thousands. The railway system has been
taken over by the Government. which gives
precedence to troops and war munitions. and
the general service is consequently dis
organized. A mail train from Johannes
burg arrived at Newcastle to-day twenty
hours late. The passengers had been unable
to procure any food from tho time they started.
and as a result most OF them were In a fainting
condition.
1t is stated that there are 10000 Doors be-
tween Sandspruit and Wakkerstroom.
Tho entire British territory between the bor-
der and Newcastle has been deserted by its In
habitants. The town OF Charleston. on the
border. has been abandoned by every body eI-
cept two or three telegraph clerks and hand
full Of railway men. who are awaiting orders.
Tho septries at Dundee. on the border
southeast OF Newcastle. have been doubled at
night in the expectation OF an immediate
attack by the Beers.
LONDON, Oct PA Standard correspondent
who Travelled on the mail train which ar
rived to-day at Newcastle from johannesburg
describes in a cable despatch to that paper the
activity OF the Beers He says that the train
was constantly side tracked to allow military
trains to pass on ahead Of it to the frontier.
Some OF these trains carried big guns and
quick firing Maxims. The burghers who we're
on the trains going to the front. or what will
be the front in the event OF war. wore
no uniforms. but were sturdy lot OF
mon. The correspondent was. however.
unfavorably impressed bv many OF the
officers, who, he says. were inferior in ply
sique. The men made no secret OF their in
tention to invade Natal. They boosted that
they would march into that colony ON Wednes-
day and drive all the English into the sea
The correspondents information induces
| him 10 estimate that 10000 Beers with field
| guns will command all the heights within
ffteen miles OF Charleston. A large force was
| seen moving toward the Buffalo River near
Glencoe. Gen. Symons is at Glencoe superin-
| tending the erection OF dsfences in the expee-
| tation OF ar attack by tho Beers
Nj. Burleigh. tho Tes0rdphs war CORES
| pondent. having visited several high authori-
ties in Pretoria wires from that city und er date
| OF Sunday as follows:
Although on the eve OF war. both republics
having armed and mohilized the whole Of
their male population. good order prevails
everywhere. l have never seen peo-
pie in such crisis SO we'll behaved
and resolute. without the least air OF
boastfulness. Young and old are fully deter
| mined TO fight to the bitter end. There are
f,,l il,l~l
parting. Whatever may BIO said to the con-
trary. there are large numbers OF Uitandsrs
English and other nationslitiss n no have en-
rolled themselves to take UP arms in defense
! OF their adopted country.
All the highest Government officials would
gladly avoid war il 1t were possible. They
declare that the republic cannot he blamed
II hostiities occur. They point to tho fact
that the Orange Free State. which never had
| quarrel with G reat Britain. sides with them
and that the peoples Of the two republics are
united against England. Surely. they argue
this attests the merits OF the dispute.
| and their position as republics, they say. is
now msnaced with destruction. II there had
been at any time during the last ive months
grain OF friendliness in the British official
| communications these would have been a
| tower OF strength for peace. SO exercised are
| the Beers at the needlessneSs OF war even
! now that President Kruger seriously
contemplates addressing personal tele-
grams to Queen Victoria and Lord
Salisbury. II it were not that the act would
probably bs misconstrusd as weakness. Suzer-
ainty they regard as an academic question.
| They claim. subject to the Anglo-Bos conven-
ton. to be a sovereign international state
| They never denied or hampered free inter-
course in trade. or the owning OF property or
| equal taxation.
Unless a moduS vlvendi is Immediately
| found. nothing can prevent hostilites. for tho
| Beers will not permit the massng Of British
| troops on their borders. They declare
that the only people who seek profit out
| OF war are the capitalists. They would prefer
dwelling in amity and brotherhood with the
| British becoming one Afrikander people. with
| the Union Jack as the flag for the sea and for
/ eign intercourse aud their own flag for tho
! federal state"
| A despatch from Pretoria to Dalziel's Agency
says that the Government has declared mora
| torium and closed the High Court.
TACHT SUNK IN LAKE ONTARIO.