Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-24
TROOPS FOR AFRICA
Great Britain Hurrying Men to
Transvaal Frontier.
GERMANS OFFER TO AID THE BOERS
Result of Meeting Of OutIanders
at johannesburg
SITUATION VERY WARLIKE

SOUTHAMPTON. August 24.-The Brit
| ish steamer Arundel Castle sailed from this
port today with 80 officers and 10 men Of
| various regiments bound for Cape Town.
GIBRALTAR, August 24.-The Manches-
| ter Regiment, numbering 1000 men, has
| sailed for Cape Town.
| DURHAM, Natal, August 24.-The men
| belonging to the British first-class reserve
residing here have been ordered to hold
| themselves in readiness to rejoin their
| regiments.
| JOHANNESBURG, August "a. AT a
meeting here of 200 Germans a committee
was appointed to express to the Transvaal
government the willingness of the Ger
mans to volunteer for service in case of
war but requesting that they be enrolled
in a separate corps on account of the hard
ships endured by the Germans in the Ma
cato campaign.
Beers Securing Arms.
CAPE TOWN, August 24.-The Delagoa
bay incident, coupled with the recent tran
sit of a large amount of ammunition, has
directed the attention of the British Off
Gals to the immense accumulation of mu-
nitions of war in the South African repub-
lies. especially in the Transvaal.
The Outlanders being debarred from car
rying arms the supply of weapons, as
shown in Lourenzo Marques (Delagoa
bay) returns for three years, is greatly in
excess of the burghers' requirements, and
consequently there is 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.
DisQufetinE News From Natal.
LONDON, August 24.-The Johannesburg
of ha
"Disquieting reports have been received
here from Natal. 1t is said that on Sun
day a train from Johannesburg was fired
on in Transvaal territory. The feeling
near the border is bitter, and the disloyal
Natal Dutch armed with Mausers."
The johannesburg correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says:
TT is reported that proposal is made
for the abolition of British suzerainty as
a condition of the concessions President
Kruger is prepared to advance, but this is
only regarded as an astute move on his
part"
A dispatch from Pretoria says: Conyn-
ham Greene. British agent and charge
d'affaires at Pretoria, has presented to the
government a further dispatch from the
British secretary of state for the colonies.
Mr.. Chamberlain, the nature of which has
not yet been divulged The presumption IS
that it is connected with the recent pour
parlers. The members of the executive
are apparently more cheerful.
Summary of Counter Proposal.
A Cape Town dispatch says: From an ex-
cellent unofficial source of information 1t
is ascertained that the substance Of the
TransvaaTs communication to the British
government in reply to the latter's de-
mands is conc ession of a five years (re-
troactive) franchise a share in the cleo
ton of the president and an increase IN
the representation of the gold fields, prob
III, a=erl,t mol a
ton that all other questions are to be sub
mitted to arbitration-but not to foreign
power-that Great Britain shall not use the
recent interference as precedent ana that
the British government shall re.inqu!sh all
suzerainty rights
A dispatch from Lourenzo Marques, Della
goa bay says: The detained ammunition
intended for the Transvaai has been re-
moved to the Portuguese troopshp India.
1t is reported the Beers contemplate send
ing commands for the ammunition.